Religion and Worldviews
What is this approach?
You may have heard people in the Religious Education (RE) community talking about the worldviews approach in Religious Education.
On this page, you will find links to current research, resources and blogs from people sharing their thoughts on this approach. This might be described Better as ‘an education in religion and worldviews.
University of Nottingham
What does good RE look like? In this video, academics Dr Tim Hutchings, Dr Céline Benoit and Dr Rachael Shillitoe discuss why good Religious Education matters and RE teachers from primary and secondary schools share their own views.
Religious Education Council of England and Wales
In 2016 the REC set up the independent Commission on RE (CoRE). CoRE produced its Final Report in September 2018 with a separately available Executive Summary.
CoRE made eleven recommendations. One of these argued for a new approach to RE based on the notion of worldviews. Another argued for a National Statement of Entitlement in RE for all pupils in state-maintained schools that ensured all experienced a basic education on the relationship between religion and worldviews.
NATRE Primary Subject Leader Toolkit
On this page, you will find links to current research, resources and blogs from people sharing their thoughts on this approach.
Explore different worldviews, using interactive data-gathering
Whose Worldview is a free resource by RE Today that builds on interactive research methods from Studying God and Studying Religion, two publications for the religious education classroom in Britain.
School pupils (and anyone else!) can fill in their responses to questions about their idea of God, and the impact their worldviews have in their lives, and have their responses turned instantly into a graphic representation – a snowflake or a spidergram. These can then be compared across a group or a cohort, sorted according to age, location, religious or non-religious worldview.