Text interpretation and educational design in Norwegian textbooks of religious education |
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| Authors: | Jon Magne Vestøl |
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| Institution: | Department of Teacher Education and School Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
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| Abstract: | Drawing on sociocultural perspectives on educational design, this article presents a qualitative study investigating how religious texts emerge as educational objects and mediating artefacts in Norwegian textbooks of religious and moral education. The article describes how the distribution of text references in textbooks influences the formation of religious traditions as objects. It also describes how religious texts are given various roles and how textbook assignments use various means to facilitate the interpretation of religious texts in a response to the demands posed by Norwegian syllabuses of religious and moral education. |
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| Keywords: | secondary school teaching approaches religious studies activity theory religious texts RE textbooks |
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