Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description This module is designed to facilitate students’ engagement with a wide range of contemporary research in religious education. A combination of lectures, seminars and class presentations will support students in reflecting on and articulating a coherent vision of their professional identity and agency as teachers of religious education who are responsive to meeting the needs of a variety of intercultural contexts. Students will be able to engage in an open and inclusive dialogue with the critical issues of a rapidly changing multi-cultural and multi-faith society. To that end this module builds on ED1303, ED2303, ED3302 and engages with the content of EDRE401 to reflect on how RE responds to the particular needs of students in the diverse context of today’s classrooms. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Learning Outcomes 1. Read, present, interpret and discuss a wide range of contemporary national and international research in religious education. 2. Illustrate a critical awareness of how to engage with the variety of cultural contexts underlying these research informed texts and their implications for classroom practice 3. Respond creatively to the intellectual and personal challenges that emerge during lectures and the making of presentations in seminar groups. 4. Relate their experience of teaching religious education to the themes of these texts. 5. To express a coherent, person-centred philosophy of life in the classroom and beyond, reflecting a generous respect for young people from a variety of social, economic, cultural and religious backgrounds. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Responding to current issues in Religious Educationintercultural education, interreligious education, inclusion in the religious education classroom – social and economic issues, gender identity, religious identity, culture, religion, migrationpurpose, scope and aims of religious education in the public sphere and in faith communitiesanalysing the debates about the place of religious education in the curriculumInterrogating research in religious educationintroducing significant research studies in religious education - national and international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Indicative Reading List
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