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If any of you want to look at how you can teach the complex socio political tensions between the Abrahamic faiths, or are teaching about interfaith relations, or maybe you want to draw out a feminist lens in your classroom, then please draw on the amazing research and services offered by the Woolf Institute.

A link to all the elements we spoke about are below;
www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/community-engagement/education

• In-Person and Online Visits to School
• Living in Harmony: Resources and Visits for Secondary Schools
• Gender in Religious Experience: Resources and Visits for Secondary Schools
• RE-Framing Education about Beliefs and Practices in SchoolsValuing Diversity: A Guide for Secondary School Teachers

To access these resources, simply email: publicengagement@woolf.cam.ac.uk

We also see how well aligned the worldviews approach is with the interfaith dialogue values.

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This may be something you have never heard of, it is certainly a new piece of subject knowldge for me. Tisha B'Av, which translates as the 9th of Av is an annual fast day in Orthodox Judaism which takes place at the beginning of August. It serves to remember the Jewish suffering from the past - specifically the destruction of the first and second temple which are said to have happened on Tisha B'Av. This is a day when many Orthodox Jews fast, deny themselves luxuries like chairs, and even refrain from reading the Torah which would offer comfort.
To explore this day, I speak to Adam Boxer and I promise this conversation is a really beautiful look at a solemn day and you will learn things about Orthodox Judaism which may surprise you as it surprised me.

Adam's online learning platform
https://www.carousel-learning.com/

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One thing we love is the messiness of RE! In the current worldviews approach we embrace this messiness and strive to accurately the diversity within worldviews. In this episode I speak to Dr Lois Lee, senior lecturer at the University of Kent. We look at the diversity of belief within the Nones - an area which called fall prey to simplifications if we are not careful. Lois and I discuss how to authentically represent atheism and all it's beautiful and messy diversity!
My take away is the suggestion of a category of a social worldview which sits inbetween and sometimes straddles personal and organised worldviews!
For more on the explaining atheism research, here is the website;

https://www.explainingatheism.org/

And the work with RE today is below;
https://www.retoday.org.uk/news/latest-news/re-today-working-with-explaining-atheism/

https://www.retoday.org.uk/school-support/publications/samples/primary-curriculum-book-exploring-non-religious-worldviews/

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