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Interfaith Week in Liverpool
For Inter-faith week, the University’s Chaplaincy team organised a trip to visit the three Abrahamic faiths’ places of worship in Liverpool. Thre years of Undergraduate students and the PGCE students came together for this fantastic trip. First year Undergraduate Hailey wrote this about the day: Arriving at the Cathedral I thought that we had turned…
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Doing Diwali
Our Year 1 Undergraduates visited a Primary school recently to deliver a day on Diwali as part of their Hindu Dharma Unit. Here is what one of them, Amy, wrote about the experience: The day started with meeting in the staff room to make sure that we had everything ready and organized for the day…
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The Theatre of Learning
Hollie wrote this about the recent visit of Sue Phillips to Edge Hill, where she worked with Undergraduate and Postgraduate students: My biggest fear in the classroom is having a class full of pupils and they do not listen to me. I fear they will not be engaged in the lesson I am teaching them, that…
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A day at Schul
Today was an insightful opportunity to experience first hand an Orthodox Jewish Synagogue and find out more about what is involved within Jewish worship. Those of the Jewish faith refer to the Synagogue as ‘Schul’ which translated from Hebrew means ‘assembly’ as those of the Jewish faith assemble together within to worship G-d. Above: In…
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Deanery Day
Final year Undergraduate students recently spent a Day in Deanery High School in Wigan. Renya has blogged about the visit: It was an interesting day as there were many things to learn whilst we were there. A level First we watched an A level lesson with Taco Michiels, the Head of RE and a former…
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Experiencing Hindu Dharma
Year 1 Undergraduates recently had the privilege to go and not only see what a Hindu temple looks like, but were lucky enough as a class to witness how worship happens in the Hindu Mandir. Mary wrote this on her blog page: It doesn’t matter how many books you read or how many assignments you can…
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Technology Making Good RE
Technology in schools is becoming a lot more advanced as time goes on. Recently, Paul Hopkins, showed third year Undergraduate Secondary RE students an array of different types of technologies that they could use in RE, and it was fantastic! Paul Hopkins is the leading figure in the national (and European) field of TEL and RE. His recent publications…
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I actually felt like a real teacher!
Year one Secondary RE with QTS Undergraduates had an opportunity, as part of their work on Hindu Dharma, to go into a local Primary School and get their first taste of teaching. Feliciity wrote this in her blog: We were introduced as ‘The teachers from Edge Hill’ today, we officially became teachers! I don’t think I could…
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New Year
The new academic year has begun in earnest at Edge Hill University’s RE department. We have once again been able to attract students keen to join us en route to becoming qualified RE teachers; we have a record number of Secondary Undergraduates with 12 year 1 students, 16 year 2s and 14 year 3s. Added…
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Research Shared
As summer shone its brightest in the weeks before term started, RE staff from Edge Hill were busy sharing the findings of their research. Prof. Vini Lander along with Dr Francis Farrell organised a Day conference for Edge Hill staff on Fundamental British Values – a key part of the government’s education agenda. The day, which…
