Prayer. Heythrop College: Home. The Text This Week - Revised Common Lectionary, Scripture Study and Worship Links. Faith. ABC Religion & Ethics. Ethics. Religion. Philosophy. The What and How of Ultimate Questions – 2011 Conference Blog | Dialogue Australasia Network. What are the ‘Ultimate Questions’ that you explore in the classroom with your students? How do you engage them in the questioning process? These are two of the key questions delegates will explore together at the 2011 DAN Conference (18-20 April, Newington College, Stanmore).
We’ll be presenting a ‘Making it Happen’ workshop at the Conference: The Religion & Science Conversation in the Middle and Senior School Classroom. Two units of work and associated resources will be shared, and there will be an opportunity to question and discuss teaching practice in this interesting area of Philosophy & Religious Studies. We’d like to get the conversation started before the Conference, and give both delegates and the wider DAN audience an opportunity to join in. We have posted a few questions to get you started. For each of the questions you could suggest ways of getting students involved in thinking them through. Questions: Join the conversation by adding a comment below…… Jews, Christians, and Muslims working together. Religious education - some recommendations. Is there not a good case for ensuring that every school, state-funded or not, should do the following? 1. have a syllabus that includes periods in which open, philosophical discussion of important moral, cultural, political and religious question takes place.
These sessions should be run by educators with some training in running a philosophical discussion. Safeguards should be put in place to ensure that pupils are not subtly (or not-so-subtly) psychologically pressured into not asking certain sorts of question or making certain sorts of point (e.g. about religion). 2. present their pupils with a broad range of different political, moral and religious beliefs and arguments. It’s important alternative points of view are not caricatured or demolished as mere straw men. One way to avoid this is to allow pupils to hear these alternative points of view from those that hold them. Students should get at least some chance actively to engage in discussion with those from other faiths. AASR: Australian Association for the Study of Religion.
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