Download or read book Special Religious Education in Australia and its Value to Contemporary Society written by Zehavit Gross and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the advantages of and challenges concerning Special Religious Education (SRE) in multicultural Australia and argues for the need for General Religious Education (GRE) as well. Through the lens of the most recent scholarship, and drawing on an in-depth qualitative study and specific case studies, the book examines the current debate on the role of religious education within government schools. It addresses key concepts of values education, spirituality, health and wellbeing, and cultural and religious identity. It analyses why it is important to retain SRE, together with GRE, as government policy. It explores highly relevant, controversial and contested issues regarding SRE, including the 30% of Australia’s population who declare themselves as having “no religion”, and brings fresh insights to the table. While secularization has increased in both the national and international spheres, there has also been an increase in fundamentalism within religious beliefs. Events such as the September 11 terror attacks and the more recent mass shootings by white supremacists and eco-fascists in Christchurch, New Zealand, and Pittsburgh and San Diego in the USA are reminders that religion is still a major actor in the twenty-first century. This poses new challenges for the relationship between church and state, and demonstrates the need to revisit the role of religious education within government schools. While the importance of GRE is generally acknowledged, SRE has increasingly come under attack by some researchers and teacher and parent bodies as being inappropriate and contradictory to the values of the postmodern world. On the other hand, the key stakeholders from all the faith traditions in Australia wish to retain the SRE classes in government schools. The book addresses this burning issue, and shows that it is relevant not only for Australia but also globally.
Download or read book Called to Teach written by Brian Victor Hill and published by Angus & Robertson. This book was released on 1971 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theological Education in the Anglican Church of Australia written by Denis Kirkaldy and published by Anglican Press Australia. This book was released on 1992 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools written by Michael T. Buchanan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers theoretical aspects of Catholic Religious Education in schools and examines them from multiple theoretical and contextual perspectives. It captures the contemporary academic and educational developments in the field of Religious Education while discussing in detail the challenges that Religious Educators face in different European, Asian, African, Australian, American and Latin American countries. The edited collection investigates how to pass on a Catholic heritage as a “living tradition” in diversely populated schools and communities. In this way it explores and asserts the proper identity of Catholic Religious Education in dialogue with Catechetics and with the wider discipline of Religious Education. As the different articles of this publication demonstrate - through a series of interesting and critical points of view - Catholic Religious Education is confronted with many challenges from the risk of marginalization to the confusion produced by a religious indifferentism leading to a strictly comparative or neutral method in the study of religions. It is essential to take into account in our research perspectives that Catholic Religious Education is not only a subject but also a mission in the light of the diakonia of truth in the midst of humanity H.E. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski, Prefect, Congregation for Catholic Education, Holy See, Vatican City Religious education teachers cannot by themselves overcome the ills of society, but religious education...can help to create better citizens of the world as some authors argue throughout this collection. could not ask more from such timely and provocative collection. It is a gift to the profession and to Catholic Religious Education. Prof. Gloria Durka, Fordham University, New York, NY, USA
Download or read book Taking God to School written by Marion Maddox and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than ever. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children. Nearly forty per cent of secondary students attend a private school, which are overwhelmingly Christian. Canberra funds them heavily, and sends evangelical Christian chaplains into both public and private schools. Some states subsidise Christian volunteers to deliver religious instruction, and some make Christian ministry a matriculation subject. Some Christian schools promote Creationism, and some advertise that their first priority is training 'soldiers' to 'do battle for the Lord in a world which rejects His laws and dominion', rather than good citizens of Australia. Marion Maddox demonstrates that our governments are systematically demolishing the once proud free, compulsory and secular education system, in favour of taxpayer-funded dogma and division. The implications are unsettling for our society and for our democracy. 'If you believe education is about teaching children how to think, not what to think, then this chilling book is a must read.' - Jane Caro, social commentator and co-author of What Makes a Good School? 'This deeply disturbing book tells how Australia's 'noble dream' of public education in the 19th century has been undermined by a combination of selfish political vote-buying, judicial abdication and public indifference.' - The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
Download or read book Religious Education and the Anglo World written by Stephen Jackson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, Religious Education and the Anglo-World examines the relationship between empire and religious education. Demonstrating close historical connections between case studies, the work calls for a transnational approach to the study of religious education.
Download or read book The Organization and Administration of Catholic Education in Australia written by University of New England. Department of University Extension and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 1975 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Australian Education 1788 1900 written by Albert Gordon Austin and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1976 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Strong s Australian Church written by Marion Maddox and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the optimistic years preceding Federation in 1901, the Melbourne-based Australian Church emerged as a progressive Christian movement to serve a brand-new nation. Galvanising many members of Melbourne’s social and political elite, activist Reverend Dr Charles Strong imagined the Australian Church becoming the national church, while addressing a broad social and political reform agenda, inspired by both theological and social liberalism. Their approach was described as ‘progressive’, ‘liberal’, ‘radical’ and ‘socialist’. Strong and his wife, Janet, founded or led organisations for causes ranging from peace to penal reform. They fought for urban slum improvements, rural village settlements, childcare and adult education, the minimum wage and women’s suffrage. Some organisations endure today; others left lasting legacies in Australian methods of addressing social inequality. Bringing together leading scholars of history, politics and religion, Charles Strong’s Australian Church celebrates the church’s radicalism, while taking account of debates and obstacles on the path to social reform.
Download or read book Religious Education in Dialogue written by National Catholic Education Commission (Australia) and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is divided into nine chapters and of necessity is a snapshot in time. The first eight chapters present an overview of curriculum development in respective states and territories and the context within which the teaching of Religious Education occurs. These chapters also provide brief commentary on approaches and resources in Religious Education that are used within respective jurisdictions. The final chapter provides a brief analysis. It presents two understandings and seven characteristics which the NCEC Religious Education Committee has identified as pertinent for further dialogue.
Download or read book Upholding the Faith written by Tom A. O'Donoghue and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The background is the private nature of Catholic education, which resulted in great freedom for the Church at the level of school management and administration. The main focus, however, is on the fact that such freedom was sought and maintained, albeit at enormous financial and human expense, so the Church could shape the process of education in distinctive ways.
Download or read book Catholic Schools and the Future of the Church written by Kathleen Engebretson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the first decade of the 21st century the Catholic Church in the developed world has faced a decline in its moral authority, increasing accusations of irrelevance to a secular age, and a steep and steady decline in commitment among successive generations from the 1960s on. Despite this Catholic schools have multiplied and grown in popularity and educational achievement. The book sets out a programme for the contribution of Catholic schools to the future of the Church, covering such topics as the religious education curriculum in its cognitive and affective aspects, the sacramental life of the school, selection of staff, the issue of staff and Catholic witness and many other topics. Engebretson argues that Catholic schools are a powerful key to the future of the Church and shows how, within their diversity, Catholic schools can be ecclesial communities, which have at their heart the building up of the Church.
Download or read book Religious Education in Australian Catholic Schools written by Richard Rymarz and published by Vaughan Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how, in a modern world where Catholicism reworks and reconstructs its methodology in the interests of pastoral care, evangelism, and Christian Education, religious education is moving forward successfully to meet the needs of Australian families
Download or read book A Common Search written by Maurice James Ryan and published by . This book was released on 2007-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Good Catholic Girls written by Christine Trimingham Jack and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on interviews with young Australian girls who lived in Sacred Heart convent boarding schools between 1940 and 1965, this illuminating study provides insight into the Catholic model of education before Vatican II, when obedience, conformity, and repression were used to teach young girls how to be ladies and become “good.” The school's social order and the ways that students responded to the regimen of study and religion are explored. The narratives of one particular school provide a critique of gender fashioning, traditional Catholic symbols and myths, and effective methods of education."
Download or read book Christian Education Curriculum for the Digital Generation written by Jong Soo Park and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about exploring and presenting a model of digital-based curriculum for Christian education suitable for the digital ways of learning, communicating, and thinking. Park discusses the limitations of analog-based curricula, most of current curricula, and necessities for digital-oriented ones. Then, he provides a new model of curriculum--curriculum as software. Curriculum as software is a curricular framework for embracing digital culture like open-flat network, service-centered management, interactive communication, and offline-online hybrid learning space. It consists of four spiral stages: analysis, design, simulation, and service. In the process of designing units, 4R Movement--a new learning theory--is utilized to encourage today's young people to construct their own knowledge after critically analyzing various resources of information. 4R-embeded courses are implemented in the four movements: reflection, reinterpretation, re-formation, and re-creation.
Download or read book Church and State Changing Government Policies Towards Religion in Australia written by John Stradbroke Gregory and published by North Melbourne, Vic. : Cassell Australia. This book was released on 1973 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
