The Personal Search" series from Hodder Gibson offers pupils - and teachers - the chance to explore the discovery and development of beliefs across a variety of religions. Based on responses to national reports that pinpointed difficulties in teaching personal search elements of religious education, the series aims to provide practical materials that will assist pupils in their own personal searches, as well as helping them to make connections between their own searches and those of other world religions. Within Buddhism and Christianity, the beliefs, values, festivals, and forms of worship will be introduced within a number of narrative contexts. Activities in listening, talking, and writing are included. This book also contains a teacher introduction that gives practical advice on implementing appropriate learning, teaching and assessment strategies, especially in relation to personal search.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Personal Search 11-14 .

There are 120 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2006 by Hodder Education .

Joe Walker is Principal Teacher of Religious Studies at Liberton High School in Edinburgh. He is also an examiner for the SQA.