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Introduction
Thinking Through Religious Education provides an approach to teaching and learning in religious education that is flexible and adaptable to any agreed syllabus. It offers practical strategies with numerous exemplars that will enable teachers throughout the secondary school to create exciting, memorable and challenging RE lessons.
Benefits
Thinking Through Religious Education helps teachers to:
- encourage a wide range of ideas in the classroom
- give pupils confidence to express their own ideas, value the opinion of others, evaluate arguments and exercise good judgement
- focus on helping.
Summary of contents
This book can be used in different ways and at different levels. Each level of use has an impact on learning but the benefits increase as you engage in more detail with the key principles and embed the approach into your teaching.
Chapter breakdown
Chapter 1 More Thinking through Religious Education
Introduction
Thinking skills in RE
What is teaching thinking?
How to use this book
Chapter 2 Odd One Out
Rationale
Exemplar 1: Jewish Artefacts. Y7 Judaism
Resources
Exemplar 2: The Structure of the Roman Catholic Church
Y8 Christianity
Resources
Templates
Chapter 3 Classification
Rationale
Exemplar 1: Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Y8 Pilgrimage
Resources
Exemplar 2: Applied Ethics. Y12 A-Level Religious Studies
Resources
Chapter 4 Fact or Opinion?
Rationale
Exemplar 1: The Passover and the Exodus. Y7 Judaism
Exemplar 2: Miracles. Y9 Christianity
Resources
Chapter 5 Fortune Lines
Rationale
Exemplar 1: The Life of Muhammad. Y9 Islam
Resources
Exemplar 2: The Life of Buddha. Y9 Buddhism
Resources
Exemplar 3: Holy Week. Y8 Christianity
Resources
Chapter 6 Maps from Memory
Rationale
Exemplar 1: Mandalas. Y9 Buddhism
Resources
Exemplar 2: Charles Darwin. Y10 Religion and Science
Resources
Exemplar 3: The Seder Table. Y7 Judaism
Resources
Thinking Through Religious Education
Chapter 7 Reading Images
Rationale
Exemplar 1: Festivals. Y7 Sikhism
Resources
Exemplar 2: Images of God. Y9 Christianity
Resources
Chapter 8 Mysteries
Rationale
Exemplar 1: Bar Mitzvah. Y7 Judaism
Resources
Exemplar 2: Abortion. Y10/Y11 Contemporary Moral Issues
Resources
Chapter 9 Story Telling
Rationale
Exemplar 1: The Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant
Y9 The Concept of God
Resources
Exemplar 2: The Life of Muhammad. Y9 Islam
Resources
Chapter 10 Community of Enquiry
Rationale
Exemplar 1: The Life of Jesus. Y7/Y8 Christianity
Exemplar 2: Arguments for the Existence of God
Y10 The Existence of God
Chapter 11 Teaching Thinking and Professional Development
Chapter 12 Thinking Skills and the Developmentof Extended Writing in RE
Bibliography and Further Reading
Information on the Internet
Details
Spiral bound, 200 Pages, Published 16/04/2004
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