When Gove became bigger than God: using social bookmarking to track subject knowledge development and student priorities in Initial Teacher Training

摘要

T his paper explores the potential for the use of social bookmarking to do two things: to support knowledge development during the religious education (RE) Initial Teacher Training course, and to aid the formative assessment of trainees. This paperhas arisen out of an ongoing exploratory pilot project examining the potential of RE student-teacherled trials of a free web-based social bookmarking application. Tentative conclusions of this exploratorypaper are drawn from the descriptive analyses of users of the web-based application, the resulting group folksonomy, and the generation of asynchronousdiscussions. The results give an insight into trainee RE teachers’ subject-knowledge development priorities throughout the course, as well as general subject-related concerns.