Coordinating religious education Across the Primary School

by Bastide,Derek

• ISBN13: 9780750706131
• ISBN10: 0750706139
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135715205
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Provides support for RE co-ordinators who are trying to get religious education properly etablished in their primary schools. The text focuses upon issues of planning, implementing and resourcing and aims to be a user- friendly guide.

Author Biography

Derek Bastide is Coordinator of Schools Liaison in the Faculty of Education, Sport and Leisure at the University of Brighton.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix	(1)
Series editor's preface	x
Introduction	1	(6)
Part one The role of the religous education coordinator	7	(26)
Chapter 1 The role of the RE coordinator	7	(4)
Coordinating religious education	7	(4)
Chapter 2 RE coordinators speak	11	(22)
Who are the RE coordinators?	12	(4)
The satisfactions of the job	16	(4)
Some problems encountered	20	(3)
Personal needs	23	(2)
Future needs in school	25	(8)
Part two What the RE coordinator needs to know	33	(26)
Chapter 3 RE, the 1988 Education Reform Act and beyond	33	(12)
The context	33	(2)
RE in the Education Reform Act	35	(1)
The basic curriculum	36	(1)
The content of RE	37	(3)
The role of SACRE	40	(2)
Agreed Syllabuses	42	(1)
The model syllabuses	43	(2)
Chapter 4 The aims of religious education	45	(14)
Teachers' views on religious education	46	(1)
How did this variety of views come about?	47	(6)
Spiritual and moral development	53	(2)
The aims of religious education	55	(4)
Part three Writing a school policy for RE	59	(36)
Chapter 5 Working with colleagues	59	(14)
Staff attitudes to RE	59	(4)
Developing the shared vision	63	(1)
Key features found in schools where RE is successful	63	(2)
Case study 1	65	(3)
Case study 2	68	(5)
Chapter 6 Religion and the agreed syllabus	73	(15)
Religion as a seven-dimensional activity	73	(8)
The agreed syllabus	81	(2)
Issues for discussion	83	(4)
Conclusion	87	(1)
Chapter 7 Writing a religious education policy	88	(7)
Part four Developing religious education in the school	95	(26)
Chapter 8 Planning the religious education curriculum	95	(11)
Long, medium, and short term planning for RE -- in outline	95	(1)
Long-term planning	96	(1)
Medium-term Planning	97	(8)
Short-term planning	105	(1)
Chapter 9 Monitoring and evaluating religious education	106	(5)
Possible strategies	107	(1)
Focuses for monitoring	108	(3)
Chapter 10 Assessment, recording, reporting and accountability	111	(10)
The purpose of assessment	111	(1)
Assessing in RE	112	(5)
Accountability	117	(4)
Part five Useful resources	121	(36)
Chapter 11 Books, artefacts, videos and ICT	121	(23)
Books for teachers	121	(4)
Books for the classroom	125	(6)
Stories	131	(4)
Appropriate themes in secular stories	135	(4)
Artefacts	139	(2)
Posters/Photopacks	141	(1)
Videos	142	(1)
RE and ICT	142	(2)
Chapter 12 Visits and visitors	144	(7)
Visiting religious buildings	144	(2)
Visitors	146	(5)
Chapter 13 Some useful addresses	151	(6)
Some main organisations	151	(1)
Major RE resource centres	152	(1)
Publishers of RE material	153	(1)
Posters, wallcharts and artefacts	154	(3)
Index	157