Resource Spotlight: Whose worldviews

Whose worldviews is a free resource for you to use with your pupils created by Stephen Pett from RE Today. It is best suited for use with secondary pupils but could be used by pupils age 9-11 in the primary classroom.

School pupils (and anyone else!) can fill in their responses to questions about their idea of God, and the impact their worldviews have in their lives, and have their responses turned instantly into a graphic representation – a snowflake or a spidergram. These can then be compared across a group or a cohort, sorted according to age, location, religious or non-religious worldview. Teachers can set up a group to enable pupils in their classrooms to see visual representation of their ideas about God and how far ideas of religion have an impact on their personal worldview.

Building on research in psychology from Johnson, Sharp et al, and testing the famous theory of dimensions of religion from Ninian Smart, this website gives visual presentations of data from your own classroom, to compare with others around the world. You can find lots more on using the snowflake and the spidergram in the secondary classroom from RE Today.

Please note that this is a public website and take care with any names/labels that identify your pupils too easily.