Does Religious Education Matter? -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/09/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 292

Expédition : 413

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.6

ISBN : 9781138386082

Résumé :
This book provocatively demonstrates that it is vital that religious education is presented as it 'really' is: a valuable and rich resource that, when taught and engaged with appropriately, stimulates essential qualities for global and responsible citizenship....

Biographie:

Mary Shanahan is Lecturer in Education (Religious Education) at St. Angela's College, Sligo. She has also taught philosophy, religious education, and religious studies at: University College Dublin, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Mater Dei Institute (Dublin City University), St. Patrick's College (Drumcondra), Church of Ireland College of Education, and St. Patrick's College (Thurles). She received a B. Ed. from Mater Dei Institute of Education (2004) and an M.A. in Philosophy from University College Dublin (2005), where she also completed her Ph.D. (2011). Her recent publications include: An Ethics of/for the Future? (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014); 'A Pregnant Space: Levinas, Ethics, and Maternity' in An Ethics of/for the Future? (2014); co-edited with Ian Leask et al, The Taylor Effect: Responding to a Secular Age (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); 'Establishing an Ethical Community: Taylor and the Christian Self' in The Taylor Effect: Responding to a Secular Age (2010); 'Responsible Reciprocity: Ethical Friendship in Plato and Levinas', Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society No. 10 (February, 2010). She is also a Member of the Royal Irish Academy Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee, Committee Member of the Irish Philosophical Society, a member of the Irish Centre for Religious Education, and a member of the Council for Justice and Peace (Irish Catholic Bishops' Conference).

Sommaire:

Introduction

Mary Shanahan

Part 1: The Distinctness of Religious Education

1 A Space like no Other

John Sullivan

2 What sort of Religious Education is needed? And why is it so Important Today?

Graham Rossiter

3 Interpreting 'between privacies': Religious Education as a Conversational Activity

Sandra Cullen

Part 2: Religious Education in the School Context

4 Does Religious Education Matter? What do Teachers Say?

Ros Stuart-Buttle

5 Living the Questions: The Spirituality of the RE Teacher According to Henri J.M. Nouwen

David Torevell

6 Going below the Surface of Grow in Love: Some of the Theological Presuppositions in the New Catholic Religious Education Primary Programme for Ireland

Daniel O'Connell

7 Eclipses and Reclamations: The Question of Religion in Educational Experience

P?draig Hogan

8 Does Religious Education Matter to Teachers in Catholic Primary Schools? Concerns and Challenges

Fiona Dineen and David Lundie

9 Religious Education in Catholic Second-level Schools in Ireland Today: An Invitation to Love, Understanding, Commitment, Hospitality, and Dialogue

Gareth Byrne

10 The Role of Religious Education Teachers: Perspectives from the Field

Hafiz Printer and Arzina Zaver

11 Reclaiming our 'Own Selves': Fragmentation, Christian Religious Education and the New Junior Cycle

Amalee Meehan

12 Does Religious Education Matter in Non-Denominational Schools in Scotland?

Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey

Part 3: Exploring the Potential of Religious Education

13 Democracy, Political Salvation, and the Future of Religious Education

L. Philip Barnes

14 Sartre's Kierkegaard: Existential Philosophy and the Irish Primary School

Jones Irwin

15 Religious Education and Emerging Technologies: A Post-Worldview Fl?neur

James E. Willis and Viktoria A. Strunk

16 Religious Education through an Experiential Lens: Inclusivity and Subjectivity in the Writing and Literature Classroom

Gavin F. Hurley

17 Educational Exclusion: A Fundamental Layer of Social Exclusion

Ali Selim

18 Religious Education in Ecclesiological Perspective

Anne Codd

19 Religion in the Latina/o Community: History, Identity, and Conscientization through Religious Education

Jo?o Chaves

20 Lessons for Religious Educators from the 'Good Teacher' (Luke 18:18) of the Synoptic Gospels

Diane Corkery