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The Ways of Knowing
Ways of Knowing: Understand, Discern, Respond
The three ways of knowing are ‘understand’, ‘discern’, and ‘respond’, and describe the skills that pupils develop as they progress through the religious education curriculum.
The ways of knowing describe the skills that pupils develop as they progress though the religious education curriculum. These are:
Understand
In this way of knowing the aim is to help pupils understand deeply the meaning of sacred texts, religious beliefs, sacred rites, and the lives of individuals and communities who are shaped by these texts, beliefs and rites.
Discern
In this way of knowing the aim is to help pupils ne able to judge wisely in response to different interpretations of the meaning, significance and implications of texts, beliefs, rites, and ways of life so that they can arrive at justified conclusions about what is true, what is good and what is beautiful.
Respond
In this way of knowing the aim is to help pupils reflect personally and with integrity on what they have learnt and consider the implications for action these may have their own lives and the world in which they live.
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