Teaching Religious Education

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Westhill is alive with the sound of RE......Page 12
What is research?......Page 13
What is RE?......Page 14
Teaching RE: researchers in the classroom......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Exploring the Bible: the Biblos project......Page 20
Exercise 2.1: What to do with the Bible?......Page 23
Approaching the Qur’an......Page 24
Exercise 2.2: Using Muslim sacred texts......Page 26
The Bhagavad Gita and young children......Page 27
Exercise 2.3: Story-telling from the Bhagavad Gita......Page 28
Conclusion......Page 29
Introduction......Page 32
Dialogue in RE across Europe......Page 34
Exercise 3.1: What more can we do?......Page 37
Exercise 3.2: Dialogue now......Page 38
Exercise 3.3: Inside out......Page 41
Dialogue and children’s voices......Page 42
Exercise 3.4: Friendship, membership and thought......Page 49
Conclusion......Page 50
Introduction: The ‘church of inclusion’?......Page 51
Exercise 4.1: How inclusive is the RE curriculum?......Page 55
Exercise 4.2: How inclusive is RE pedagogy?......Page 58
RE and the range of pupil needs......Page 60
Exercise 4.3: Salmon Line......Page 66
RE, inclusion and exclusion, and new religious movements......Page 67
Exercise 4.4: When do you feel more included?......Page 68
Conclusion......Page 71
Exercise 4.6: Moksha Chitram......Page 72
Introduction......Page 74
Research on RE......Page 75
Exercise 5.1: What does religiousness mean?......Page 77
Research on pedagogy......Page 78
Exercise 5.2: What is typically said?......Page 82
The varieties of RE pedagogy......Page 84
Six ways around Easter: a pedagogical fantasy......Page 85
Exercise 5.3: Evidence for perspectives......Page 89
Conclusion......Page 90
Introduction......Page 91
Values and citizenship......Page 92
Exercise 6.1: Worldwide debate on religion......Page 95
Research into the impact of RE and citizenship education......Page 96
Exercise 6.2: The value of RE......Page 100
Religion within citizenship and human rights education......Page 101
Conclusion......Page 104
Introduction......Page 106
Ethnography, pluralism and RE......Page 107
Ethnography, Muslim diversity and RE......Page 109
Exercise 7.2: Reverse ethnography: drawing with people......Page 112
Exercise 7.3: Blogging for RE......Page 113
Introduction......Page 115
Research and sincerity......Page 116
Sincerity in phenomenological research......Page 117
Sincerity in positivistic research......Page 120
Sincerity in RE research......Page 121
Participants in the Westhill Trust Seminars......Page 124
Bibliography......Page 128
Glossary of acronyms......Page 141
H......Page 143
S......Page 144
Z......Page 145