a.

The models, approaches and methods of teaching Religious Education relates to each through
that specific teaching models and approaches tend to inform the designing of instruction and its
implementation in the classroom. Piaget's theory of cognitive development helped add to our
understanding of children's intellectual growth,
b. Teachers develop a better understanding of their students’ thinking. They can also align their
teaching strategies with their students’ cognitive level (e.g. motivational set, modeling, and

Phenomenological study of religion can be defined as the personal participation of a scholar in the
religion he seeks to study in order to understand the essence and the manifestations of the religious
phenomena of a particular religion. The approach in religion studies does not seek to explain the origin
of religion in any way, but rather to describe the religion from an internal point of view

In planning early childhood religious education, Piagetian theories of religious development can serve as
a reminder that theological ideas that seem basic and obvious to us can sometimes be extremely
difficult for young children to comprehend