RE Curriculum development

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Following a discussion about curriculum in RE I thought I’d pull together a set of resources that may be useful. I’m happy to add as people recommend.

Blogs

Louise Hutton – Why this? Why now? An RE curriculum conversation

N McGee – Setting the scene for teaching Christianity at GCSE

J Semmens – The Need for Philosophy

N McGee – Planning an interweaved Key Stage 3 curriculum

A Smith – Disciplinary Knowledge and RE: an attempt at professional wrestling

R Orme Religious Illiteracy: The Neglect of Knowledge in RE

R Orme – From Gandhi to Geldof: The Menace of Thematic RE

R Orme- RE’s Knowledge Vacuum

C Vardy- Religious Education: What do students need to KNOW?

I Howarth- Why Religious Education is a fundamental part of a broad education

A Lewis- CoRE: Interim Report (2) – Building a Knowledge Curriculum

N McKain – A Knowledge Rich Curriculum with 20:20 vision 

K Gooch – Curriculum choice is keeping me awake at night 

J Porter – Which knowledge should you teach from the Bible?

Disciplines in RE

G Georgiou –BALANCED RE: THOUGHTS ON RE CURRICULUM DESIGN

Balanced RE documents

Secondary audit for Balanced RE
Primary audit for Balanced RE

Click to access 1-873-item-4.pdf

The Norfolk agreed syllabus – an example of multi-discipline approach

A discussion about the new Norfolk Agreed Syllabus – Questions by Paul Smalley and answers by Kathryn Wright. Here

Other

Bowie, R. (2016) Doing RE hermeneutically– learning to become interpreters of
religion. RE Today, 34 (1). pp. 60-62. ISSN 0226-7738.

D Cox – Curriculum intent & design – how not to do it

D Cox – Curriculum roundup 2019

Biesta et alRELIGIOUS LITERACY: A WAY FORWARD FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION?

B Wintersgill Big Ideas For Religious Education