Explicit Evaluative Activity in the Subject „Religion”
Explicit Evaluative Activity in the Subject „Religion”

Summary/Abstract: Unlike subjects in which the role of the explicit evaluation is almost unanimously accepted in traditional mass education, there are some subjects in which the lack of a certain talent or of certain abilities leads to poor results, to the decrease of self-esteem and even to perceiving the compulsoriness of attending them as a sort of humiliation for the pupils who are in this kind of situation. Besides music and art, physical education requires certain and almost visible skills, while literature, mathematics, physics, biology, and geography in their turn require multiple specific mental abilities. We consider that religion has got a special status, for which apparently no special skills are required, whose evaluation is among the most demanding towards the teacher, but can lead to real „mutations” in the axiological system of the adult-to-be. Through this paper, we try to identify some of the difficulties in the evaluative activity in Religion, focusing mainly on elementary school.

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