Thinking Skills in Religious Education References

Reflective Curricula: Thinking Skills in Religious Education

Here is a series of online and printed references dedicated to the use of thinking skills in the teaching of RE. A short description accompanies each entry.

Using thinking skills in Religious Education: Gifted and talented students. National Curriculum online RE site. "The thinking skills associated with argument, reasoning and logical analysis have a key place in RE. To learn RE effectively, pupils need to develop a range of thinking skills that enable them to gather, organise, store, retrieve, modify and present information."
Baumfield, V. (n.d.) Thinking through Religious Education, Cambridge: Chris Kington Publishing.
School produced resources - RE: Pages containing "schemes of work, lesson plans, resources and examples of pupils work. For RE these have been collated by participating teachers during phase B of the On The Line Thinking Skills project." On The Line is the Devon Curriculum Services ''Thinking skills' in Geography and Religious Education' project web site.
Robert Kargbo's Debating skills in RE Thinking Skills Project for Religious Education at Henry Compton School.
Matthew Lipman: Thinking Skills in Religious Education, The Pedagogic Reporter, XXXV, no 2, March 1984, pp. 26-29.