Teaching religious and worldviews education boldly, inclusively and creatively

Elton-Chalcraft, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3064-7249 (2025) Teaching religious and worldviews education boldly, inclusively and creatively. In: AREAIC / AULRE Conference, 26-27 July 2025, University of Exeter, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Dr Sally Elton-Chalcraft, Professor of Social Justice in Education at the University of Cumbria, UK, gave this lecture at the Association of University Lecturers in Religion and Education (AULRE) and Association of Religious Education Inspectors, Advisers and Consultants (AREIAC) 2025 joint conference, along with Alexandra Brown (Bristol University), Jane Yates (University of Cumbria and RE Consultant), Associate Professor Janet Orchard (Bristol University), Dr Linda Whitworth (RE Consultant), Dr Ruth Flannagan (Exeter University), Dr Kate Christopher (Anglia Ruskin University).

Understanding creative approaches in RE - using the ‘Phunometre scale’.
Theoretical issues and lesson ideas for decolonising RE, aspiring to be a critical multiculturalist, the important work of embedding anti racism and community building.
Underlying principles and practical activities for using the arts in RE. Exploring music, drama, art and technology via engagement with religious and cultural art forms, artefacts, symbolism and meaning-making.
Critical and creative approaches to understanding Islamophobia and challenging ‘othering’ by drawing on the poet Rumi and contemporary lived Muslim experiences. (We would like to acknowledge the contribution of the late Professor Lynn Revell who would have co presented this section).
Dilemmas and advantages of using visits, visitors and Persona dolls to promote authentic engagement in interfaith dialogue.
Drawing on innovative models to stimulate creative, meaningful and engaging RE, for example the TASC model, the four dimensions of spiritual development and The RE-searchers approach.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Departments:	Institute of Education > Non-Initial Teacher Education Learning Education and Development (LED)
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	02 Oct 2025 10:31
Last Modified:	02 Oct 2025 10:45
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/9088

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