Toolkit to advance the teaching of religion and worldviews in schools
from Religion Media Centre:
The Religious Education Council has launched a “toolkit” to help people writing RE curriculums develop a Religion and Worldviews approach. The handbook has been produced after a three year project analysing the meaning of “worldviews”, sketching out objectives of this approach and practical measures to achieve them. It reflects the nature of belief and practice in modern Britain, where Christian affiliation is declining and non-religion is rising.
The approach is based on the understanding that “no one stands nowhere”, every person has a worldview, which religious traditions and other views influence. The curriculum would change from studying world religions in blocks, to studying themes such as climate change or life after death and seeing how different views shape ideas. The handbook suggests this approach will re-invigorate the subject which a recent Ofsted report said was “continuing to wilt” with no coherent national plan and there was confusion in schools over content.
The religion and worldviews approach was rejected by education minister Damian Hinds in 2018, but it has wide support, with the chair of the REC, Sarah Lane Cawte, saying the project reflects a broad consensus across the RE community to create an approach fit for purpose in the 21st century.
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