Exploring religious education
Subtitle: Catholic religious education in an intercultural Europe
By: edited by Patricia Kieran & Anne Hession.
Contributors: Kieran, Patricia.; Hession, Anne.
Publisher: Veritas Publ.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781847301321
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Education -- Europe; Christian education -- Europe; Religious education -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1 : Understanding Catholic education; title: Philosophy of Catholic education  -- John Sullivan; title: Lifelong faith development in the homes, parish and other educational environments  -- Gareth Byrne; title: Catechumenate as 'inspiration for all catechesis'  -- Jane E. Regan; title: Spirituality of teaching and learning  -- Amalee Meehan -- Section 2 : Reading foundational documents and texts; title: Creative use of the Bible in religious education  -- Anne O'Leary; title: Guiding principles from the General directory for catechesis  -- Thomas H. Groome; title: Nostra aetate and religious education  -- Dermot A. Lane; title: Junior and senior certificate syllabi : background, issues and challenges  -- Vince Murray -- Section 3 : Catholic education as inclusive education at the heart of Europe; title: Religious education from a European perspective  -- Peter Schreiner; title: Learning in difference : inter-religious learning in the secondary school  -- Bert Roebben; title: How world religions teach religion  -- Joseph McCann; title: Invisibility and inclusivity : approaches to religious difference in schools  -- Patricia Kieran; title: Catholic religious education in Ireland  -- Patrick M. Devitt; title: Catholic religious education in Northern Ireland  -- Sharon Haughey; title: Catholic religious education in England and Wales  -- David Roberts; title: Catholic religious education in Scotland  -- Roisín Coll and Robert A. Davis -- Section 4 : Practising Catholic religious education; title: 'Come and see' : the processes of catechesis  -- Anne Hession; title: Early childhood and Catholic religious education  -- Maurice Ryan; title: Hands up in the air : creative prayer with children  -- Ed Hone and Roisín Coll; title: Voices from the Catholic primary school classroom  -- Fiona Dineen; title: Act of judgement in religious education : light from Newman, Lonergan, Giussani and Groome  -- Raymond Topley; title: Educating faithful Christians in a dissenting world  -- Thomas H. Groome; title: Beyond sheep and goats : from judgement to assessment in religious education  -- Anne Looney -- Section 5 : Ministering in a Catholic school; title: Role of religion in the curriculum of a Catholic school  -- Andrew G. McGrady; title: Managing the Catholic school  -- Joseph McCann; title: Sacraments of initiation : how we come to belong! -- Maeve Mahon.