First published in the Guardian on Wednesday 28 May 2014. Last year I had a conversation with my deputy headteacher on how to develop my career without looking for a new job. I had been devising, developing and delivering inset days on teaching and learning, as well as mentoring and coaching colleagues for some time. But I wanted…
First published on the Guardian website on 22 August 2012 Despite being an atheist who reasons the world is over four billion years old, I enjoy teaching the opposite idea that God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The idea of creation, and the myths and theories associated with creationism, offer a myriad…
First published in the Guardian on Monday 30th July 2012 Having just taught a series of religious education lessons called ‘Religion – Do we have a choice?’, I decided to re-read a chapter in Richard Dawkin’s http://richarddawkins.net/ book The God Delusion entitled Childhood, Abuse and the Escape from Religion. As on my first reading, I was…
The impact of religion on the contemporaneity world is obvious Published in the Guardian 6th September 2011 The coming school year holds uncertainties for the role of religious education in schools in England and Wales. In July the Department for Education announced that RE will definitely be left out of the English baccalaureate (EBacc), despite concern from the education select committee, the National…
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