Teaching and Learning Relationships WJEC GCSE Specification B

Teaching and Learning Relationships WJEC GCSE Specification B (Option A) Relationships Module

Relationships ISSUES Love, Marriage, Divorce

Religious beliefs, values and traditions • Religious Teachings • Religious marriage ceremonies • Pre and extra-marital relationships • Contraception • Marriage • Divorce • Remarriage Click on the screen

Key Concepts commitment responsibilities reconciliation conflict

Topic Learning What commitments do we have to other people? What responsibilities do we have towards others? Love – sexual affection, love of family Marriage and alternatives Why do marriages succeed and fail? Divorce

Buddhism – core content • Life of the Buddha and detachment from wife • Celibacy • Life of monks and nuns regarded as superior • Marriage religious and non-religious occasion; use of scripture reflects local culture and custom • The Five/Ten precepts • Individual decision making founded within and beyond precepts

Christianity – core content • Sex and marriage are gifts from God Matthew 19 vs 4 -6 • Sexual desire should be channelled into marriage 1 Corinthians 7 vs 9 • Marriage vows • Humanae Vitae and a non-Catholic view on contraception • Adultery, separation and divorce Matthew 19 vs 9 1 Corinthians 7 vs 10 – 11 • Two contrasting attitudes to divorce among Christians

Hinduism – core content • Pre-marital relationships strictly regulated by family • Arranged marriages • Love marriages • The samskara of marriage ritual and commitments (dharma, artha, kama) • Divorce permitted but uncommon • Contraception allowed; social and economic factors more influential than religious

Islam – core content • Sex and marriage to reflect the will of Allah Surah 30: 20 • Arranged marriages • Marriage contract and dowry • Polygamy and justice to each wife Surah 4: 3 • Adultery Surah 17: 34 • Divorce conditions, Iddah and provision for his wife

Judaism – core content • Man and woman made for each other Genesis 2 vs 18 • Marriage is necessary to bring children into the world Isaiah 45 vs 18 • Marriage vows, ketubah • Rabbinical judgements on contraception • Adultery and divorce Exodus 20 vs 14 Deuteronomy 24 vs 1 -4 • The Bet din; the Get

Sikhism – core content • Importance to a Sikh of being married • Marriage a spiritual and physical union Adi Granth 788 • Sex only permitted within marriage Adi Granth 56/274 • Marriage ceremony centrality of Guru Granth Sahib; Javan hymn • Grounds for divorce

Celebration WJEC GCSE Specification A Celebration Module

Christianity • Rites of Passage • Marriage • Ceremony • Vows

Hinduism • Rites of Passage • Marriage • Betrothal • Ceremony

Islam • Rites of Passage • Marriage • Nikkah (contract) • Mahr (marriage gift)

Judaism • Rites of Passage • Marriage • Features of the ceremony • Huppah • Ketubah

Morality and Lifestyle • Family life – rights, roles and duties of men, women and children • Nature and purpose of marriage • Separation, divorce and remarriage • Marriage outside religion • Purpose of sex • Birth control, pre-marital sex, adultery, homosexuality END