Report on Nature and Purpose of Religious Education in Australian Catholic Schools Pdf 2022
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Report on Nature and Purpose of Religious Education in Australian Catholic Schools Pdf 2022
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Analysis of the role of the core churchdocuments, religious scholarship, andscripture on religious education learning andteaching
ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1Nature and purpose of religious education in Australian Catholic schools.................................1History of the development of religious education in 20th century..............................................3Influence of Church Documents on this history and direction of religious education inAustralian Catholic schools.........................................................................................................4CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
INTRODUCTIONDevelopment of catholic teaching is based on the history and document which are presentand based on the tradition that are passed on to people generations to generation. There aredifferent types of changes that have taken place in relation with the teaching but these getchanged by the lack of information that people have and this can be passed on to others ( Ryan,2013). However, the teaching and faith that were in early years were high when it is comparedwith this modern world. This report covers the nature and purpose of religious education inAustralian Catholic schools. Further, it covers history of development of religious education in20th century. Lastly, it also includes influence of Church document on the history and direction ofreligious education in Australian Catholic schools. Nature and purpose of religious education in Australian Catholic schoolsCatholic education would be meaning all the service in this field which is provided by theRoman Catholic Church in the education system of Australia (Askew, 2013). There are all kindsof education like that of primary, secondary and 3rd level of teaching to the students of Australia;there are about 1700 Catholic schools within which about 7.5 million students are taught. Nature:This type of education would be concerning about not only giving intellectual knowledgebut teaching them affective and emotional learning as well. It tells about essential elements withrespect to formation and personal development of people which would not be possible withoutreligious education (Bolu, 2012). If the child is engaged in taking this type of education at thevery beginning of their life, it becomes easy for them to analysis the impact and relationshipbetween religious history and science. They could also analyse the effect and partnership ofhuman body with that of sports. Its nature in Australian catholic schools could be betterunderstood by the importance of it within students who are taking the education for which hecould be making his career in coming time (Rossiter, 2018). However, it is catholic educationwhich would not be meaning or depending only upon one type of religion but they are requiredto teach about other religions as well. This would be helping them to love and respect the cultureof other religions which is termed as loving their neighbour including developing both vocationaland intercultural aspect.Purpose:1
The main purpose of this type of catholic schools who are undertaking religiouseducation within their perspective is helping the parents, teachers and priest to understand themeaning of religious education for the coming generation of people (Hyde, 2013). With the helpof this, it would be easy for them to deeply understand the meaning and richness of Catholic faithand then communicating with Christ within Church. There are many and different kinds ofpeople who are coming from various backgrounds who are taught within this Australian Catholiceducational stream (Religious Education in Catholic schools, 2018). They are meant to servediversified population within their territory under the context of Religious Education CurriculumDirectory (RECD). Other than these, there are also some explicit aims or purpose of religiouseducation taught in catholic schools like that of:This would be helping people to build up their imagination and desire to find outmeaning of their existence in accordance with the Catholic faith.This would also be assisting them in building up their analytical thinking so that theycould be able to present vision about moral of church with that of social teaching (Wang,2011). Then people would be critically thinking about what is contemporary culture andrelationship with society as well.Catholic education which has been given to students in school would be bringing aboutclarity between state of faith with life and with culture as well.This would also be including the content of encompassing that would be termed as baseof knowledge with that to understand meaning and catholic faith (Zajda, Tsyrlina-Spadyand Lovorn, 2017).People who are engaged to take up this kind of education would be understanding andtaking knowledge about religious education and then linking that with other subjectswhich are then taught to them.This would also be developing critical thinking of people which they then would beputting it into their daily life working and associating it with their experience as well.Religious education would be on continuous basis deepening their religious andtheoretical understanding so that they could communicate with others (Murray, 2011).2
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