S18 E3: The One About Questionning

About this episode

The episode explores the importance of questioning in education and features a discussion with Joe Kinnaird about his insights on the topic.

Please send The RE Podcast a Text Message! Questionning is at the very heart of who we are as humans as well as the RE classroom. Following on from my chat with Joe Kinnaird about his new book; Secondary Religious Education in Action, we delve deep into his chapter on questionning. This follows a brilliant talk he gave on this topic at Strictly 2026. We look at what makes a good question, how to develop a questionning culture in your classroom, how to deal with 'I don't know' resp...

People in this episode

Host: Louisa Jane Smith

Guest: Joe Kinnaird

Topics covered

• questioning
• religious education
• classroom culture
• education techniques
• human nature

Keywords

• questioning
• education
• religious education
• classroom
• teaching techniques
• human nature
• Joe Kinnaird

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Secondary Religious Education in Action

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