Home - ACU (The Australian Catholic University)

Site Navigation

EDRE162 Religious Education 2

10 cp

As students move through the Catholic primary school their awareness of the society in which they live increases. The classroom teaching of religion needs to reflect such awareness. This unit focuses on religious education in the middle and senior years of primary schooling. It has specific emphases on students understanding and awareness of the Catholic Church tradition including the role and place of sacraments and scripture as well as religions place in Australias multi-cultural and multi-faith society. When considering effective religious education pedagogy in middle and senior primary settings, learning and teaching needs to be informed by contemporary theory and practice that reflects an understanding of the ways in which students in these primary years have developed. Therefore key aspects of this unit include: curriculum development and evaluation processes, sacramental education, Eucharistic liturgical preparation, moral/values education, the exploration of Scripture with students, an appreciation of Indigenous spirituality as well as multi-faith and multi-cultural perspectives, and an evaluation of religious education resources.

Sub-site navigation