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Teacher Education: What Australian Christian Schools Need and What Higher Education Delivers
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Buchanan, Michael T. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2020
The intersection between schools and the higher education institutions that prepare graduates for teaching in schools is driven by secular agendas. These agendas showcase knowledge transfer as a key indicator of effective learning and teaching. However, the preparation of graduate teachers for service in Christian schooling systems cannot be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Catholic Educators, Higher Education
Into the Deep: Teacher Reflections on the Development and Implementation of a Trial Religious Education Curriculum
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Sultmann, William; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – Religious Education, 2021
The development and implementation of a trial Religious Education (RE) curriculum within a Catholic diocese of Australia was characterized by the scriptural metaphor "into the deep." Commentary (5300 words) from teacher developers (n = 40) and implementers (n = 85) were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Findings…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching
Leading Learning for a Recontextualising Approach in Religious Education
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Madden, Rina; Bernasconi, Gina; Larkins, Geraldine; Tolan, Bernadette; Fumei, Paul; Taylor, Anne – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
A recontextualising approach in religious education has been adopted in the newly revised religious education curricula of the four dioceses in Victoria: the dioceses of Melbourne, Ballarat, Sandhurst and Sale. This approach requires a radical change to the teacher's role from knowledge transmission to one which supports students to grapple with…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Catholic Schools, Educational Change
The Education and Formation of Teachers for Catholic Schools: Responding to Changed Cultural Contexts
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Franchi, Leonardo; Rymarz, Richard – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2017
The much documented sociological and cultural developments which offered significant challenges to Catholic education in recent decades have played no small part in changing the composition of the Catholic teaching force. A weakening of religious practices and an increase in more personalised understandings of spirituality are now especially…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Teacher Education, Religious Education