RE Conference 2025 - Exploring a Worldviews Approach

Nobody stands nowhere, inspired by the Theos Think Tank research piece, is a now familiar short video created by Emily Downe, that encourages the viewer to consider their own view of the world and how that has been shaped and developed. The changes to religious education over recent years has embraced this worldviews approach. Moving the focus from solely the content to be taught, towards focusing on the framing of this information on the lived experience of adherents, both for institutionally organised, secular and personal worldviews. Engaging pupils to not only acquire information but to be interpreters of this information.

We are excited that our conference this year will give time and space to consider a number of scientific based worldviews; both developing our own subject knowledge and having time to consider their relevance and importance to teaching RE at school. Through a mix of keynote talks and interactive sessions, we will hear from the lived experience of those who hold humanist and sentientist worldviews, and the compatibility of those who embrace both science and Christianity.

This conference would be suitable for those who teach or lead religious education across the primary phase, perhaps coming in partnership with those who lead on science as you consider how one subject may support the learning in the other through careful curriculum mapping.