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Module Specifications
Archived Version 2020 - 2021
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Description This module is designed to facilitate students’ engagement with a wide range of classical and modern texts in the fields of religious education and catechesis. A combination of lectures, seminars and class presentations will allow students to articulate a coherent vision of religious education that is sensitive to the needs of a variety of contexts and 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 engages with the content of EDRE401 and reflects on how RE responds to the particular context of today’s Ireland. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Read, present, interpret and discuss a wide range of classical and modern texts in the fields of catechesis and religious education. 2. Illustrate a critical awareness of the variety of cultural contexts underlying these texts. 3. Respond creatively to the intellectual 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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Learning Activities Responding to current issues in Religious Educationintercultural education, interreligious education, inclusion in the religious education classroom – social and economic, gender, 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 curriculumOfficial catechetical documents (late 20th century etc)The shaping documents of current understandings of Catholic religious educationInterrogating research in religious educationintroducing significant research studies in religious education - national and international | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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