Description
Book SynopsisReligious Education (RE) holds a unique place within the state education system. Yet, the teaching of RE has often been criticised for its tendency to present simplified and stereotypical representations of religions. Bringing together the theory of metacognition with RE curriculum content, this book offers a coherent and theoretically supported approach to RE and beyond that is applicable to a range of subjects and students of various age groups.
Metacognition, Worldviews and Religious Education seeks to support teachers in creating a new and exciting classroom approach. With a focus on putting children and teachers' worldviews back on the RE agenda and developing awareness of these through metacognitive processes, it includes
Tables, frameworks and checklists to make it easy for teachers to adapt the approach to their own context
Concrete examples of how the approach can work in the classroom, including case studies from teachers
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Table of Contents
List of tables
About the authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Creating a metacognitive environment
2 Meta-thinking zone
Teacher voice 1: Creating a meta-thinking zone in my RE classroom (Helen)
3 The worldview zone
Teacher voice 2: Promoting children’s views of the world (Jeanette)
4 Resources zone and lesson planning
5 A practitioner’s approach
Teacher voice 3: A teacher’s view of using the lessons (Cari)
6 The project and assessment
Teacher voice 4: Teachers’ views of being involved in the RE-flect project
7 Pupils and teachers developing metacognition
8 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
