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Religious Education PGCE University of Manchester. Neil Hopkin Headteacher Robin Hood Primary School Birmingham. Surely the Most Boring of All Subjects?. O Brother, Where Art Thou?. Clip of 3 characters by the riverside, being ‘saved’. So where are you ?.
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Religious EducationPGCEUniversity of Manchester Neil Hopkin Headteacher Robin Hood Primary School Birmingham
O Brother, Where Art Thou? • Clip of 3 characters by the riverside, being ‘saved’.
So where are you? • How does the prospect of teaching RE make you feel? • What do you remember of your own RE lessons?
What do you remember of your own RE lessons? • Frankly, in primary school, nothing • We drew candles and coloured them in. Often • They were boring • Our RE was done is assembly. It was always the same:Two hymns, a good b*ll*cking and a prayer to finish with • The local priest came to do it. He was out of touch, old and irrelevant • I can’t honestly tell you if it was RE or PSHE
How does the prospect of teaching RE make you feel? • It compromises what I think teaching and teachers should stand for… objectivity! • It terrifies me. What if I offend someone? • It is an irrelevance in the modern world and irritates me. • It’s like sex ed. It should be done at home. • It excites me. It’s a wonderful opportunity to show children a better way to live. • I feel nothing. It is boring and is a necessary hurdle to gaining the holy grail of QTS and £££
What do you want to know? • Facts about faiths? • Early Years RE? • “I’m an atheist get me out of here…!”
What we will cover… • Christianity • Islam • Judaism • Hinduism • Sikhism • Buddhism
The Big Questions… • Clip from Bruce Almighty, arriving at ‘Omni Presents’
Pedagogies we will discuss… • Visual Literacy • Philosophy for Children • Thinking Skills and De Bono’s Thinking Hats • Kagan’s Co-operative Learning Structures • The Mantle of the Expert approach • Using visitors and visits
Do’s and Don’t’s we will consider… • Fanatical helpers • Handling artefacts • Dressing up • The Truth! • Intelligent Design and Creationism • Faith schools
What is the goal? • The QCA non-statutory guidance for Religious Education • ‘Learning about…’ and ‘Learning from…’ religion
Learning From… • Clip from Everything is Illuminated, telling the story of respect for the Torah
A suggested model… • Stage 1: Learning about (what do they do?) • Stage 2: Thinking about (what is similar in my life?) • Stage 3: Learning from (why are these actions significant to me?) • Stage 4: Learning to think from (how might my significances contrast to their significances?) • Stage 5: Learning to think about: (why might they do what they do?)
Compare or contrast? • Beware the dangers of comparative religion • Be postmodern – just a little bit • Fancy a read? • Daniel Dennett - Breaking the Spell • Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion • Alister McGrath - The Dawkins Delusion • James Fowler - Stages of Faith • Robert Coles - The Spiritual Life of Children • Karl Rosengren et al - Imagining the Impossible
Search for the unique… • Clip from Nacho Libre, debating whether all wrestling is a sin
Be visually (and spiritually) literate Who is God, what is He/she/they like and how or why does believing in God affect people? • K-Pax • O Brother Where Art Thou? • Everything is Illuminated • Bruce Almighty • Nacho Libre
The fruits make it worth the journey… • Clip from K-Pax, initial meeting between Prot and Psychiatrist
Enjoy the course! and thanks for listening