Learning to Teach Religious Education in the Secondary School provides insights from current educational theory and the best contemporary classroom teaching and learning, and suggests tasks, activities and further reading that are designed to enhance the quality of initial school experience for the student teacher.
Key themes addressed include:
the place of Religious Education in the curriculum
state and faith community schooling
developing schemes of work
language and religious literacy
teaching religion at 16 plus
religion and moral education
collective worship.
This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout to take account of changes to policy and the curriculum. It includes two additional chapters on `Religious Education and Citizenship' and `Teaching Religious Education at A level', as well as new versions of three original chapters `Teaching Children with Special Educational Needs', `Religious Education and Moral Education' and `Resources for Religious Education'.
Supporting teachers in developing levels of religious and theological literacy, both of individual pupils and the society as a whole, this comprehensive and accessible text will give practising teachers and students an introduction to the craft of teaching Religious Education in the secondary school.