ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the third zone of the RE-flect project, the resources zone, showing how this was used in different project classrooms to engage pupils in debates about different faiths, drawing on their own experiences and backgrounds. It provides teachers with a framework for planning lessons using RE-flect principles drawing together the three different zones and the principles. The resources zone is a place where this teaching can be supported; theological, philosophical and religious ideas can become tangible through the use of appropriate artefacts such as photographs, representations of buildings, texts and other material items related to and representing such ideas. The resources zone could be thought of as a sort of ‘crowdsourcing’ of curriculum content knowledge. The selection and sequencing of knowledge content, and the resources used to teach that content, are active decisions that have generally been made by the teacher.
