Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools

✍ Scribed by Michael T. Buchanan, Adrian-Mario Gellel (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 313
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Contextualising the Catholic Religious Education Project....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-7
The Progression of Religious Education Since the Second Vatican Council as Seen Through Some Church Documents....Pages 9-21
The Interdisciplinary Imperative of Catholic Religious Education....Pages 23-34
How Much and Which Theology in Religious Education? On the Intimate Place of Theology in the Public Space of the School....Pages 35-45
Problem or Paradox: Teaching the Catholic Religion in Catholic Schools....Pages 47-60
The Aesthetic Dimension of Believing and Learning....Pages 61-72
Positive Youth Development and Religious Education....Pages 73-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-89
Leadership Sustainability: Supporting Religious Education Leaders in the School Context....Pages 91-101
“To Thine Own Self Be True”: Respecting Both Religious Diversity and Religious Integrity in Contemporary Australian Early Childhood Religious Education....Pages 103-113
Religious Educators: Championing the Concept of Sustainable Living....Pages 115-129
Religious Education in Hong Kong Catholic Schools: Past, Present and Future....Pages 131-142
Contemporary Engagements and Challenges for Catholic Religious Education in South East Asia....Pages 143-153
Aren’t They Too Young? The Challenge of Hermeneutical and Interreligious Learning in Catholic Religious Education: A Flemish Perspective....Pages 155-165
Addressing Diversity and Individualism: The Contribution of Catholic Religious Education to the Educational Project of Catholic Schools in the Netherlands....Pages 167-178
Catholic Religious Education in Scotland: Bridging the Gap Between Teacher Education and Curriculum Delivery....Pages 179-193
Catholic Religious Education in German Schools: An Ecumenical and Interreligious Perspective....Pages 195-205
Catholic Religious Education in Schools in Poland: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Challenges....Pages 207-217
A Theological Reflection on the Catholic Policy on Christian Religious Education in Nigeria....Pages 219-231
Catholic Schools and Religious Education in South Africa....Pages 233-244
The Teaching of Religion in Catholic Schools in the United States: One Faith Amidst Competing Ecclesiologies....Pages 245-256
Front Matter....Pages 85-89
Religious Education in Canadian Catholic Schools....Pages 257-268
Investigating Hermeneutical Structures in Catholic Religious Education Curriculum from a Canadian Perspective....Pages 269-279
Religious Education in Brazil: An Overview of Pedagogical Developments....Pages 281-291
Let’s Talk About Teacher Professionalism: The Teaching of Catholic Religion in Chile....Pages 293-305

✦ Subjects

Religion and Education; Curriculum Studies; Religious Studies, general; Teaching and Teacher Education; Sociology of Culture