Articles about vision for RE
Policy pages
This article is for paying subscribers Insights from a report into subject teachers’ visions for RE and character education
The theme for this issue of REtoday is ‘visions’, and this complements the first key finding in a recently published report on RE teachers (Arthur et al. 2019). This report, freely available online from the Jubilee...
Instant RE
A vision of dialogue in the RE classroom and beyond
Do you teach students to neglect understanding? I want to ask what sort of dialogue about religion we should have within and beyond the classroom. Today, religion is perennially ‘in the dock’. Richard Dawkins has...
Opinion
Religion is emotional therapy
Stephen T. Asma offers a vision of a role for religion from a perspective of psychological health. ‘The Indian elephant is known sometimes to weep,’ Charles Darwin wrote Charles Darwin in 1872. ‘In the Zoological...
Opinion
This article is for paying subscribers Vision and insight: getting to the heart of RE around the world
It used to be prophets who had visions. Nowadays, vision means a little less. When we are asked what our ‘vision’ is for RE, we know that we are supposed to say what our intention is when teaching the subject. In...