ABSTRACT
The worldview zone within religious education (RE)-flect project classrooms was designed to enable pupils to recognise, reflect on, understand and articulate their own worldviews. Requiring pupils to express their personal beliefs, values and practices in relation to specific religious and non-religious worldviews may inhibit the ability of pupils from other religious and non-religious persuasions to articulate and develop their own worldviews, using their own concepts, theories and narratives. Worldview profiling would represent a practical method by which pupils could gain awareness of their own worldviews, however rudimentary and incoherent they may be. The participating teachers on the RE-flect project were asked to create a worldview zone and to trial worldview profiling using the Worldview Question Framework. The curriculum trial of our worldview profiling approach indicates its potential benefits in terms of improving the ability of pupils to recognise, reflect upon, explore and develop their own worldviews.
