Discusses the difference between academic instruction and affective learning in religious education. Maintains that undergraduate religious education is responsible for the development of professional religious educators. Address objections to this claim. Outlines undergraduate religious education curriculum. Proposes a plan, including sample…

Describes the foundation, growth and philosophy of Teachers' Teams, an international movement of Catholic educators who view teaching in public schools as a vocation, mission and ministry. Discusses activities such as monthly meetings and conferences and defines the three steps in their approach: seeing, judging, and acting. (BCY)

This article aims at rethinking religious education from an engagement with Derrida's forms of reasoning and analyzing. In the first section Gert Biesta presents deconstruction and shows how we can find deconstruction in education. In the second section Siebren Miedema explores the religious horizon of deconstruction. In the final section the…

The proper relation between religion and public schooling is addressed in this paper which reviews the secular humanist position and recommends ways to pursue the study of religion in classrooms. This dual purpose is achieved through the following process: (1) reconstruction of an empirical-naturalistic image of reality (Image 1); (2) construction…

An interview with a language arts teacher at St. Patrick's Grade School, Dickinson, North Dakota, who recently served on a three-member team that carried out a model library-centered experiment for seventh grade students. (Author)

Objections have been raised against religious education as indoctrination rather than education. This article provides an argument against this theory by discussing indoctrination in science and various teaching methods. (DF)

Article deals with what should and should not be distinctively Catholic in the Church's Institutions of Higher Education. (JG)

In response to Richard Morrill's essay on values education, the diversity of the verbs used to describe values education is discussed. Focus is on diversity in diagnoses and pedagogical goals as well as the range of strategies used by those who recognize the diversity. (Author/JMF)

Maintains that the discipline of the philosophy of education can make an important contribution to the discipline of Christian religious education, as both are concerned with the dimensions of an integral education. Examines five first principles to show the unity between a Christian philosophy of education and a Christian religious education.…

This article offers a German response to John Hull's recent article on "religious education in Germany and England" (in "BJRE", volume 27, issue 1). The author claims that recent developments have brought religious education in both countries much closer together than in the past and that the differences between the respective…

The Bruderhof communities in the United States have organized their own private schools with a distinctly Christian philosophy of education, adding to the interesting mix of American private and religious schools. Rooted in early 20th century German pedagogy, romanticism, and shared responsibility, Bruderhof schools represent the essence of a…