The implicit knowledge structure preferred by questions in English Religious Studies public exams
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Bowie, R. A. 2021. The implicit knowledge structure preferred by questions in English Religious Studies public exams. in: Religion and education: The forgotten dimensions of religious education Leiden Brill. pp. 112-123
Authors | Bowie, R. A. |
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Abstract | This chapter is not so much a critique of an exam, as an analysis of religious education (RE) through a study of the principle question structure used in exams, and the kind of answer responses that can become norms. This reveals implicit knowledge structures that implicitly prefer binary argumentation rather than nuanced and contextual discussion, literalism and proof texting with sacred texts rather than polyphonic multidimensionality and contextual readings, and contradictory rather than compatible differences. The question structures in exams assert a kind of knowledge in RE constructed by and for examinations. For the most part they do not test disciplinary knowledge and forms of religious knowing have no recognized place. |
Keywords | Examinations; Argumentation; Proof text |
Page range | 112-123 |
Year | 2021 |
Book title | Religion and education: The forgotten dimensions of religious education |
Publisher | Brill |
Output status | In press |
File | License All rights reserved (under embargo) File Access Level Controlled |
Place of publication | Leiden |
ISBN | 9789004446397 |
Publication dates | |
17 Dec 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 31 Aug 2020 |
Deposited | 28 Oct 2020 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004446397 |
Official URL | https://brill.com/view/title/59436 |
References | AQA (2016). GCSE Religious Studies A 8062/1A and 8062/1B The Study of Religions Papers 1A and 1B Mark Scheme 2018 Specimen. [Online] Available at: http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/resources/rs/AQA-80621-SMS-ADD.PDF |
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