Big Ideas ‘Big Ideas’ is a technical term proposed by Wiggins and McTighe (2005) to refer to the main overarching ideas that students need to understand in order to grasp a subject in the school curriculum in a way which is transferable to life beyond the...
What do people mean when they talk about worldviews? The Report from the Commission on RE in England, set up by the REC (Religious Education Council of England and Wales), in 2018 recommended that we rename the subject Religious Education (RE) ‘Religion and...
Non-religious Researchers have asked people what they mean when they say they are ‘non-religious’. The answers are quite variable. Often, they are rejecting religious beliefs such as belief in God, reincarnation, or anything beyond the evidence of the senses and...
The Commission on RE (2018) recommended changing the name of the school subject ‘Religious Education’ in England to ‘Religion and Worldviews’. The word ‘Religion’ is in the singular to indicate the need to examine the concept of religion, and to delineate...