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Aug 24, 2022 11 tweets 5 min read Read on X
My summer school sessions for new year 7s was all about conceptualising Worldview, as we call RE ‘Religion and Worldviews’. I was nervous to do an hour on this. If you are too, read on to see how I tackled worldview with 11 y/o’s, their work, some advice and resources #TeamRE 🧵
We started by exploring what Worldview (WV) means, and how religions are WVs. I then explained how not everyone is religious, but everyone has a worldview. All of them in the room. I used Theos’ ‘Nobody Stands Nowhere’ video which is visually rich and sparks conversation. Image
I explained that WVs are lenses through which we make sense of Big Questions. I posed a set of different questions (below) and invited students to consider which are ‘big’ or ‘small’ & why. Responses including Big are not easy to answer, and people have different opinions on Big Image
I then developed their definitions, adding that answers to Big Questions are ones that influence how we shape our lives. I didn’t want students thinking that anything people have a different opinion on is a Big Question religion and WVs are concerned with, using this image below. Image
I took the question ‘How did the Earth get here?’ and using my magnifying glass ‘looked’ at the question (a mini performance!) first as a scientist, then as a theist, then humanist. I acted as three people, articulating my worldview and my answer as I ‘looked’ through the lens Image
Conceptualising done, students completed the ‘Worldviews Questionnaire’, I revealed how the letters they chose might say something about their current worldview. Many students, as expected, didn’t neatly fit into one category. I explained fluidity and ‘messiness’ of human views. Image
Finally, students designed a lens that represents their WV. Importantly I explained this isn’t things you ‘like’; Xbox is not part of your Worldview. I used a pre-planned, concise prompt: Include beliefs and values you think are important, that influence how you ‘see’ and live.
This last part was tricky, as the above is of course not a comprehensive definition of worldview. But for 11 y.o’s olds, I wanted to be clear as I have a tendency of over-explaining things, when really they needed clarity for the task especially after a very abstract first half.
Here’s the final product - a selection of year seven worldviews! ImageImageImageImage
And a few more! ImageImageImage
Credits:
📽@Theosthinktank Nobody Stands nowhere’ on YouTube
📖@missdcox Blog ‘Introducing worldviews as part of studying religion and belief’ and the lens analogy.
💭 @jamesdholt Is who I first learned the term ‘messiness’ from
👨🏻‍💻 @NATREupdate for their worldview questionnaire!

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Dec 8, 2022
I’ve just completed a series of lessons for yr7 looking at what is ‘radical’ about Jesus based on the gospels. Important considerations: Which Jesus are you representing? From what viewpoint are you seeing Jesus? My thoughts on decolonising/avoiding Christian-centric teaching 🧵
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Show students to a range of images of Jesus from around the world; they are probably used to seeing Jesus with fair skin & European. Should Jesus be shown as a Middle Eastern Jew? Or does God transcend cultural representations, and therefore creating Jesus in our image is ok? Image
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