Nurturing Children's Religious Imagination: The Challenge of Primary Religious Education Today - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 1853907782 ISBN 13 : 9781853907784

Editeur : Veritas Publications, 2004

Synopsis

Aimed at primary school teachers of religious education as they set about responding to the challenges of religious education in the twenty-first century. The collection begins by focusing on children's existential concerns and on the response of home, school and parish. Consideration is then given to contemporary issues affecting religious education such as intercultural education and outreach to children from a variety of disadvantaged situations and circumstances. The third section includes essays on catechetics and on the use of story, including popular cultural narratives such as Harry Potter. The final section addresses the sacraments of Communion and Confirmation, and includes an essay on the liturgical inclusion of people with special needs.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Gareth Byrne is Head of the School of Education and lectures in Religious Education at the Mater Dei Institute of Education, a College of Dublin City University. His teaching and research work is focused on Primary and Post- Primary Religious Education and on Faith Development for all age groups. He conducted national research throughout Ireland, North and South, in 2005/6, providing the Irish Catholic Bishops Conference with a draft National Directory for Catechesis. As well as contributing various articles, he is author of Religious Education Renewed: An Overview of Developments in Post-Primary Religious Education (Veritas, 2005) and co-editor with Raymond Topley of Nurturing Children s Religious Imagination: The Challenge of Primary Religious Education Today (Veritas, 2004). He is a priest of Dublin diocese and Parish Chaplain in St Gabriel s Parish, Dollymount. Raymond Topley is Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Religious Education, St Patrick s College, Drumcondra, a college of Dublin City University. His particular interests are in Religious Education methodology and liturgical studies. He is a Fellow of the Lonergan Institute, Boston College and his recent research has focused on the implications of Bernard Lonergan s cognitional theory for Religious Education. His publications include Nurturing Childrens Religious Imagination: The Challenge of Primary Religious Education Today (Veritas, 2004), which was co-edited with Gareth Byrne.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Nurturing Children s Religious Imagination is aimed at primary school teachers, parents and others as they set about responding to the challenges of religious education in the twenty-first century. This collection of essays begins by focusing on children s existential concerns and on the response of home, school and parish. Consideration is then given to contemporary issues affecting religious education such as intercultural education and outreach to children from a variety of disadvantaged situations and circumstances. The third section includes essays on catechetics and the use of story, including popular cultural narratives such as Harry Potter. The final section addresses the sacraments of communion and confirmation and includes an essay on the inclusion of people with special neeeds. The editors, Raymond Topley and Gareth Byrne, open and close the collection with their own significant contributions to the discussions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Veritas Publications
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853907782
• ISBN 13: 9781853907784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Éditeur: Topley Raymond
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• Personne responsable: non disponible