Subject: FW: RE Adviser for RE Today Services

Subject: FW: RE Adviser for RE Today Services

 

Dear Member representatives,

 

Please find below an advert for a position as RE Adviser for RE Today Services. Please feel free to circulate this to anyone you feel might be interested in the role.

 

Best wishes,

 

Sophie

 

RE Adviser

for RE Today Services

(Salary: Equivalent to TPS L4 – L11, according to experience)

We are seeking a full-time specialist RE Adviser to complement the work of our well- respected RE Team.

 

The successful applicant will have recent and relevant experience of teaching and/or advising in RE in the primary or secondary phase with a willingness to contribute to both phases as necessary.

 

They will be expected to offer RE advice, training and consultancy services to SACREs, Local Authorities, academy groups, schools and others, and contribute to our publications work. They will be based at home. The ability and willingness to travel and ‘out of normal office hours’ working are integral to the post.

 

For an application pack contact: RE Today Services, 1020 Bristol Road , Selly Oak, Birmingham , B29 6LB (telephone: 0121 472 4242 or email: diane@retoday.org.uk). The application pack can also be downloaded from our websites www.retoday.org.uk and www.natre.org.uk

 

For further information or informal discussion about the post contact Diane Horton telephone: 0121 472 4242 or diane@retoday.org.uk  who will arrange for Lat Blaylock, Stephen Pett or Fiona Moss to contact you.

 

·          Closing date for applications: 10am Friday 7^th February

·         Successful applicants notified:  Monday 17^th February

·         Interviews in Selly Oak, Birmingham : Thursday 27th February 2014

·         Starting date (preferred): Thursday 1^st May 2014

 

 

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Sophie Agrotis | Office and Finance Administrator

 

Religious Education Council

14-22 Elder Street

London

E1 6BT

 

Phone:  0207 859 1612

E-mail: info@religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk

Website: religiouseducationcouncil.org.uk

New research project about Buddhist buildings in England

 On Monday, 27 January 2014, 12:24, Caroline Starkey <trs6cf@leeds.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear NBO Members,

Jamie Cresswell very kindly agreed to let us send a message to the NBO 
list about a new research project about Buddhist buildings in England 
that we are currently undertaking at the Centre for Religion and 
Public Life (University of Leeds) with English Heritage.

The aim of the research project is to explore the function, 
significance and meaning of buildings for various Buddhist communities 
in England; the results of which will be written into a report for 
English Heritage (which will be available on their website) as well as 
an academic publication. The research will be completed by September 
2014.

Over the life of the project we plan to visit about 16 different sites 
to do in-depth interviews, and we have also launched, today, our 
online survey.

We would be very grateful if you would be able to complete the survey, 
on behalf of a Buddhist group that you are affiliated with (or, 
alternatively, forward the survey link to someone who you think would 
be more appropriate). The survey need only be completed once per 
building (although an organisation who has multiple buildings can 
complete the survey multiple times). The person completing the survey 
need not be the most senior person in a Buddhist group or 
organisation, but they should have some knowledge of the history of 
their building and its current use.

The survey should take between 15-20 minutes to complete and is 
available at: https://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/buildingbuddhism_england


We have more information about our project on our blog, which is 
available at: www.buildingbuddhism.wordpress.com

We really appreciate your involvement,

Please don't hesitate to email us with any questions,

Best Wishes

Dr Emma Tomalin and Caroline Starkey

Centre for Religion and Public Life
School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science
Hopewell House, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT
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Caroline Starkey Dear all, Thanks for the replies - and for the question, Peter. It's a really interesting one, and something that we have been (and continue to) think about. We are taking a broad definition of the te

To nboinformation@googlegroups.com

Today at 11:31 AM

Dear all,

Thanks for the replies - and for the question, Peter. It's a really 
interesting one, and something that we have been (and continue to) 
think about.

We are taking a broad definition of the term ‘building’ for this 
project, quite deliberately, as already we can already see that there 
are a lot of different ‘Buddhist buildings’ out there, ranging from 
residential houses where small groups might meet, to large monastic 
complexes. For us, ‘Buddhist building’ might also include a notable 
monument as well, or indeed a school.

We think what they have in common here is a community function – a 
place or space where a group of people, large or small, would meet to 
engage in Buddhist practice – e.g. meditation, or talks or community 
activity; and that might be advertised as such to the public. 
However, we are paying particular attention in this project to public 
buildings (as opposed to residential houses where groups might meet) 
as this reflects the priorities of English Heritage in terms of 
listing and protection.

We know the language is complex in this area as well – ‘centre’, 
‘temple’, ‘monastery’, ‘place of worship’, ‘faith building’ have all 
come up – but we do want to be as inclusive as possible, 1. To help 
refine the definition of ‘Buddhist building’ in the English context, 
and 2. So that we can get a good picture of the ‘landscape’ of 
Buddhism in England. It is limited to England at this stage as this is 
English Heritage’s geographical remit.

However, we’d be really interested to hear from anyone who might want 
to refine our broad definition, either to include or exclude certain 
types of buildings - We're very open to on-going conversation. I'd 
also really like to include the idea of refuge too.

With very best wishes,

Caroline and Emma

Scholars produce massive new cross-cultural Buddhist dictionary

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=10,11703,0,0,1,0

by Meg Sullivan, Source: http://phys.org/news/2013-12-scholars-massive-cross-cultural-buddhist-dictionary.html, Dec 10, 2013

Berkeley, CA (USA) -- Creating a 1.2 million–word dictionary devoted to the principles, practices, people, places and pennings of Buddhism might seem like the kind of feat possible only through the intervention of nirmanakaya, a kind of doppelganger of the Buddha, or manomanakaya, subtle magical bodies acquired during meditation.

http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=49,11717,0,0,1,0 Buddhanet launches Buddhist eLibrary By Justin Whitaker , Patheos, December 27, 2013 Sydney, Australia -- This week, the well-known Buddhist web resource Buddhanet launched a mobile site: Buddhist eLibrary. Merry Christmas to us. (fyi, Access to Insight can also be downloaded in full here for android and on itunes for iphones, or to your computer for offline browsing.) The eLibrary is currently fairly sparse in its offerings and available online in 5 languages: English, Chinese, Thai, Portuguese, and Spanish, but further languages and materials are planned. The site represents the combined efforts of the Buddha Dharma Education Association Inc. (BDEA), which is located at the Bodhi Tree Forest Monastery, NSW Australia, currently in partnership with Mahachulalongkorn University, International Buddhist College (IBC), and the Buddhist Maha Vihara (BMV). Buddhanet and the eLibrary seek to “support the globalisation of Buddhist education and the systematic development of Dharma based pedagogy by establishing partnerships with Buddhist institutions worldwide. The eLibrary follows the principle of ‘One Dharma’, that is, promoting all Buddhist traditions and the diversity of cultures and languages they represent.”

RE's impact on community relations

Subject: New inquiry: RE's impact on community relations

The All Party Parliamentary Group on RE has initiated a new inquiry into the contribution of RE to good community relations. At a series of three oral evidence sessions, MPs will have a chance to hear from teachers and other educators, researchers and young people about this important topic. The first session took place on 10th December and you can read an account of it on the REC website.

There are further sessions in January and February and we would like as many MPs as possible to attend, whether or not they are already members of the APPG. We would be very grateful for your support in encouraging them to do so - a letter from a constituent is much more likely to elicit a response than an invitation from an organisation they don't know.

Please see attached template and guidance from the Religious Education Council. One is a general note about how to go about writing to your MP, which may be useful if you haven't done this before. The second is a template for writing about this inquiry. The letter can of course be changed and personalised in whatever way you choose but it gives a possible starting point. A letter sent now would give an MP enough notice for the meeting in January so if you are willing to write, please do so as soon as you can.

We would be very grateful if you were willing to communicate with your MP for this purpose and it would also be very helpful if you could let the REC know info@religiouseducationcouncil.org.ukof any approaches made and responses received.

Many thanks for anything you are able to do on this front.

With best wishes,

RE Today Services

1020 Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham, B29 6LB

T: 0121 472 4242 | F: 0121 472 7575

www.retoday.org.uk

RE Review report

RE Review report

The RE Review report is now published following eighteen months of development work and consultation.
The full report includes the curriculum framework, a discussion of the wider context for RE and a series of questions to inform future work and development, as well as the recommendations of the Expert Panel report.
A summary report includes the introduction and the curriculum framework. Both versions are available in printed form as well as free to download.

Visit the RE Council RE Review report page.

NASACRE has produced a briefing paper to support SACREs with the non-statutory guidance and the writing of an agreed syllabus.

NASACRE AGM 2014

Location: London
Venue: Methodist Central Hall, Westminster
Date: May 22nd 2014
Time: 10:00-3:30
Theme: RISING TO THE CHALLENGE
Keynote speaker: Mr Stephen Lloyd, MP. Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on RE

Many were impressed and stirred by Mark Chater’s erudite challenges to SACREs at last year’s AGM. This year’s AGM will be looking at the state of play in RE and education more generally from the perspective of Stephen Lloyd, Chair of the APPG and John Keast, who will then be the retired Chair of the REC and will provide his frank and perceptive overview to end proceedings.

Sandwiched between these two keynotes, we want to showcase the work of SACREs in rising to some of the challenges raised. We would like to have about 4-6 brief presentations by SACREs on work they are doing in any of the following areas, that show innovation, engagement and challenge:

1. Work to support teachers to provide meaningful and challenging RE
2. Involving wider representation (faith/belief/universities/academies)
3. Pupil/student involvement
4. Meeting the challenges of the new curriculum settlement

We know there is really good work going on and this needs to be shared, so please volunteer to do so at the AGM by emailing Bill Moore (bmoore@learningtrust.net) by March 31^st 2014. Simply send in your SACRE name, a contact, which of the above areas you are addressing and a brief outline of what you are doing.

Further information and details about how to book will follow in the next issue.

www.nasacre.org.uk

Introducing Buddhist Action Month (BAM) June 2014

Introducing Buddhist Action Month (BAM) - June 2014!

Buddhist Action Month is coming soon. We'll be sending more information soon, but here's a six-point summary:

1. Buddhist Action Month is June 2014.
2. It's an annual month in which Buddhists across the UK are encouraged to focus on socially beneficial activities, locally, nationally or globally, inspired and motivated by Buddhist teachings and values.
3. The suggested theme for BAM 2014 is the environment.
4. BAM is part of Together in Service (TiS), an English multi-faith project initiated by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
5. TiS grants are available for local projects involving people of more than one faith community (eg Buddhists and Christians, or Buddhists and Muslims) in England.
6. Funding applications can be submitted all through the year and the next deadline is 6th February.

More details soon!

With best wishes in the Dharma,

 

 

Munisha (Catherine Hopper)
Liaison and Communications Officer, The Triratna Buddhist Order

Manchester Buddhist Centre

16-20 Turner Street, Manchester M4 1DZ

0161 839 9579

MultiFaiths: 2014 Religion Beliefs SMSC Trends Shaping Equality Duties Education

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