Mastering Primary Religious Education

Mastering Primary Religious Education introduces the primary religious education curriculum and helps trainees and teachers learn how to plan and teach inspiring lessons that make religious education irresistible.

Topics covered include:
· Current developments in religious education
· Religious education as an irresistible activity
· Religious education as a practical activity
· Skills to develop in religious education
· Promoting curiosity
· Assessing children in religious education
· Practical issues

This guide includes examples of children's work, case studies, readings to reflect upon and reflective questions that all help to show students and teachers what is considered to be best and most innovative practice, and how they can use that knowledge in their own teaching to the greatest effect. The book draws on the experience of two leading professionals in primary religious education, Maria James and Julian Stern, to provide the essential guide to teaching religious education for all trainee and qualified primary teachers.

Maria James is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, Theology and Leadership at St Mary's University, UK.

Julian Stern is Professor of Education and Religion at York St John University, UK. He is General Secretary of ISREV - the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values - an association of religious education scholars from more than 34 countries. He is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Religious Education, and is widely published, with 15 books and more than 30 articles.