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Edexcel B (KS4)

KS3 & KS4 religious education curriculum

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Religious education
Year 9

Changing world: How does religion address modern issues?

6 lessons

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In this unit pupils will investigate how worldviews adapt teaching in the light of contemorary concerns. They will examine how Christians and Jews have responded to ideas of dominion with a focus on responsibility for the earth. They will examine attitudes to animals and Islamic ideas of reason.

To balance breadth of content without losing focus, this unit is placed to complement the previous unit of study on census data. This gives pupils a full term looking at religion and modernity but with a shift in focus now to application of religious teaching to current issues. This unit is supported by content from year 8 on what constitutes a good life and the earlier year 9 units on interpretation of religious law and teaching in line with your conscience.

  1. Stewardship versus dominion
  2. Tikkun Olam and the work of World Jewish Relief
  3. Pope Francis and the 'Laudato Si' encyclical
  4. Mary Midgley and why animals matter
  5. Analogy, reason and ijtihad in relation to modern issues
  6. Religious dogmatism in relation to modern issues

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