Full Description
Teaching Religious and Worldviews Education Creatively offers a fresh perspective on the Religious Education (RE) curriculum. This second edition is crammed full of practical lesson ideas underpinned by cutting edge research authored by specialists in the field. It helps teachers understand what constitutes an effective and creative Religion and Worldviews Education (RWE) curriculum, and challenges teachers to view RWE as a transformatory subject that offers learners the tools to be discerning, to work out their own beliefs and to answer puzzling questions.
This second edition of Teaching Religious and Worldviews Education Creatively includes fully updated chapters from the first edition with 11 new contributors and 5 brand new chapters. New topics include:
- Visits, visitors and persona dolls
- The RE Searchers approach
- New ideas about policy, practice and assessment
- Insights into RE in the UK and around the world
- Anti-discriminatory RE
- New and updated practical classroom ideas from practicing teachers
Teaching Religious and Worldviews Education Creatively is for all teachers who want to learn more about innovative teaching and learning in RWE in order to improve understanding, knowledge and enjoyment, while at the same time transforming their own as well as their pupils' lives.
Contents
SECTION 1
Teaching Religion and Worldviews Education Creatively: Aims and Principles
Ch 1 Introduction - Creative RE, the 'phunometre scale' - Sally Elton-Chalcraft
Ch 2 Policy, principles and practice- facilitating creative teaching - Ruth Flanagan and Linda Whitworth
Ch 3 Challenging Discrimination and prejudice through creative and inclusive RE - Sally Elton-Chalcraft, Alexandra Brown and Jane Yates
SECTION 2
Creative Approaches in Religious Education/ Religion and Worldviews Education
Ch 4 Creative thinking and dialogue: P4C and the community of enquiry - Georgia Prescott
Ch 5 Creative skills and strategies : The TASC model - Sally Elton-Chalcraft and Penny Hollander
Ch 6 Effective and creative planning and assessment - Fiona Moss and Katie Freeman
Ch 7 Spiritual development through creative RE - Sally Elton-Chalcraft, Penny Hollander and Georgia Prescott
Ch 8: Religion and Worldviews through the arts - Linda Whitworth, Saima Saleh, and Janet Orchard
Ch 9 Visits, visitors persona dolls and interfaith dialogue - Rebekah Ackroyd, Sally Elton-Chalcraft and Imran Kotwal
Ch 10 Realising quality Religion(s) and Worldview(s) education with the RE-searchers approach - Giles Freathy
SECTION 3
Developing Practice
Ch 11 Islamophobia and a religion and worldviews approach - Kate Christopher and Lynn Revell
Ch 12 Developing Practice: What we teach and why - Sally Elton-Chalcraft
