Teaching RE to Muslim students.
Azam Ali is Head of RE at Challenge College in Bradford, where most of the students are Muslim. So how does he approach the study of Buddhism with a Year 8 class? The majority of his students don't have an issue with learning about other faiths, but occasionally students ask why they can't...
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| Format: | DVD/Blu-Ray |
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| Language: | English |
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[London] :
Teachers TV/UK Department of Education,
2007.
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| Series: | KS3/4 RE ;
1-2 |
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| Online Access: | Click to access this resource online Click to access this resource online |
| Summary: | Azam Ali is Head of RE at Challenge College in Bradford, where most of the students are Muslim. So how does he approach the study of Buddhism with a Year 8 class? The majority of his students don't have an issue with learning about other faiths, but occasionally students ask why they can't just learn about Islam. As a Muslim himself, Azam reminds them that Islam encourages racial harmony, social harmony, learning about other ideas, cultures and faiths. However, it's also important to make sure that no student is excluded because of his or her faith, so in this lesson on Buddhism Azam is aware of certain sensitivities that Muslims may have. Amongst other things, some students could be reluctant to draw images of the Buddha, when Islam regards idol worship as a grave sin. Azam's solution is an interesting one. Mick Walker is Head of RE at Nab Wood School, Bingley. The school serves a diverse population in the Bradford area, and most students are Muslim. Mick firmly believes that schools shouldn't avoid controversial areas of the curriculum, as students need to be given the opportunity to articulate their concerns, anxieties and fears in school. In this programme we see Mick teaching a lesson which explores Muslim attitudes to issues of peace and conflict. The objectives centre around exploring how the media represent Muslims and Islam. The lesson includes a consideration of what Muslims mean by the term jihad . This leads to a heated debate in the classroom but Mick says, We have a duty to provide the spaces where these ideas can be explored. If we didn't take these issues on in RE, RE would be much the poorer for it and so would the students education. |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed Mar. 5, 2012). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (30 min.). Previously released as DVD. |