BGCSE Religious Education case studies
BGCSE Religious Education · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The BGCSE Religious Education is a secondary-school subject examination within The Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education, the national certification framework taken by students near the end of their compulsory schooling. It suits candidates completing senior secondary religious education, home-schooled students seeking national certification, and independent learners who want a structured grounding in religious belief and practice. The BGCSE Religious Education case studies are 5 cases and about 3,648 words.
1The Scholarship Dinner and the Saturday Shift
Dario is 17 and the eldest of four children in a household in Nassau where his mother works two jobs. He has been offered a place in a church youth leadership programme that meets every Saturday morning for eight weeks and ends with a certificate that would strengthen his application for a college scholarship.
710 words, about 4 min2Reading the Creation Accounts in a Science Class
At a senior school in Freeport, a Religious Education teacher and a Biology teacher discover they are teaching the same week. The Biology class is covering evolution and the age of the earth.
659 words, about 3 min3The Nine-Night Service and the Saturday Wedding
A family in a Bahamian settlement is preparing for a nine-night service following the death of a grandmother who was a founding member of the local church. The service falls on the same evening as the wedding rehearsal of a cousin, who is marrying in ten days and whose rehearsal cannot easily be moved because the officiating minister is travelling.
732 words, about 4 min4The Shop That Sells Alcohol Beside the Church
A member of a small evangelical congregation in Nassau owns a convenience store directly opposite the church. He has begun selling beer and wine because margins on groceries are thin and two nearby competitors do the same.
758 words, about 4 min5Two Funerals, One Cemetery
A settlement council in the Family Islands administers a single cemetery used by the whole community. It contains the graves of Anglicans, Baptists, Roman Catholics, members of a local independent church, and several families with no church affiliation.
789 words, about 4 min