Tuesday 4 November. Curriculum for Cohesion contributes to the PGCE in Religious Studies at the Department of Education, University of Cambridge

By Dr. Matthew Wilkinson

Dr. Matthew Wilkinson contributed a session to the PGCE teacher-training course in Religious Studies at the Department of Education, University of Cambridge with a lecture and workshop entitled, ‘Islam, Critical Realism and Religious Studies’. In the lecture, Matthew showed, amongst other things, how the fulcrum of critical realism can provide an intellectual basis by which all pupils can learn to justify, critique and articulate their faith whilst remaining open to the insights of those of other faiths and none. The teacher-trainees then used this method to create schemes-of-work in the workshop.