The units of learning based on Big Ideas for RE are probably quite different from anything you have worked with previously. A central principle is the flexibility of the units and indeed the whole programme. See also 'Develop your own "Big Ideas for RE" curriculum'...
How to navigate the Big Ideas for RE website as an RE Curriculum Developer. The main purpose of the website is to provide a guide for those developing the RE curriculum. Many teachers head straight over to the Exemplars to access the detailed...
The Big Ideas Project and the Commission on RE (CoRE) set up by the REC (Religious Education Council of England and Wales) both began in 2016 and arose from similar concerns about the present situation of and future prospects for the school subject, religious...
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...