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Thanissaro, Phra Nicholas (2012) Measuring attitude towards RE : factoring pupil experience and home faith background into assessment. British Journal of Religious Education, Vol.34 (No.2). pp. 195-212. doi:10.1080/01416200.2011.623154 ISSN 1740-7931.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01416200.2011.623154
Abstract
Recent studies have increasingly favoured contextualization of RE to pupils’ home faith background in spite of current assessment methods that might hinder this. For a multi-religious, multi-ethnic sample of 369 London school pupils aged from 13 to 15 years, this study found that the participatory, transformative and dialogical activities of church visits, computer use and classroom debate improved attitude to
RE. It revealed more readiness in girls to apply RE to their own religiosity and particularly negative attitudes to RE in pupils with no religious background. Besides indicating the validity, reliability and unidimensionality of a new short quantitative
measure of pupil attitude to RE which acknowledges pupil experience and home context, the findings suggest ways to move beyond ‘banking’ paradigms to which RE remains prone.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Alternative Title: | Measuring attitude towards Religious Education : factoring pupil experience and home faith background into assessment | ||||
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1603 Secondary Education. High schools |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Institute of Education ( -2013) | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Teenagers -- Attitudes, Teenagers -- Religious life, Religiousness, Religious education -- Great Britain | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | British Journal of Religious Education | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
ISSN: | 1740-7931 | ||||
Official Date: | February 2012 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.34 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 195-212 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1080/01416200.2011.623154 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 August 2016 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 August 2016 |
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