1st Edition

The Routledge RE Teacher's Handbook

By Bob Bowie, Lynn Revell Copyright 2020
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

This handbook explores the important ideas, policies and practices in religious and moral education. It offers comprehensive coverage of the main issues and provides: concise explanation of the theoretical, policy and research developments suggested classroom strategies for teaching and learning suggestions for activities and questions to help examine the issues and encourage reflection... Read more

Introduction  Part 1. Religious and moral education today – the current statutory situation:  1. Exploring the subject  2. How to study religion  3. Exploring faith traditions  4. New spiritualities  Part 2. Spiritual, moral and global citizenship education:  5. Children’s spiritual education  6. Moral education, philosophy and thinking skills  7. Cultural education, global citizenship and human rights education  Part 3. Enabling learning:  8. Meeting the learning needs of individual pupils  9. Supporting pupil progress  10. Positive and active learning in religious education  11. Resources

Biography

The authors are uniquely placed to take advantage of continuing professional developments explicit in RE reform with Dr Revell the Academic Leader, and Bob Bowie the editor of the packs of the RE-Net group the Teacher Development Agency (formerly Teacher Training Agency) sponsored project to provide support for initial teacher education in Religious Education. Dr Revell teaches primary RE, Teach First RE and secondary citizenship. Bob Bowie is the Leader of the Secondary and 7-14 RE programme and teachers on primary Re programmes. Both are associated with the National institute for Christian education and Citized.