ED5934 - Catholic Religious Education 4

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Education

This subject studies principles and methods for implementing Religious Education in classrooms. Students will gain an understanding of the nature, historical development and purposes of Religious Education through an analysis of relevant church documents. Students will identify, examine and critique a variety of approaches to Religious Education by exploring and analysing curriculum approaches and resource materials of selected Australian Catholic schooling systems. Students will examine, critique, develop and implement plans for effective teaching and learning strategies in the Religious Education classroom. This will include assessment, reporting and evaluation processes used in Religious Education. Students will participate in learning opportunities for demonstrating and applying Religious Education methods.

Learning Outcomes

• critically analyse key church documents that have influenced religious education curriculum in Catholic schools;
• develop and critique a variety of approaches to teaching religious education to meet identified learning goals;
• design and critique strategies for learning, teaching and assessing religious education curriculum in Catholic schools;
• apply and evaluate principles of learning and teaching religious education curriculum.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically;
• The ability to appraise information critically;
• The ability to conceptualise problems;
• The ability to make constructive contributions to project teams or collegial activities.

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 5
Census Date 09-May-2013
Face to face teaching (Townsville availability delivered over two weekends of intensive workshops (Workshop 1: 27 and 28 April 2013; Workshop 2: 11 and 12 May 2013). The workshops will be followed up with work online.)
Coordinator:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson
Contact hours:	20 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	in-class test - 10 short responses (50 words) (10%); unit of work and essay(1500 words) (50%); in-class assessment - essay (1200 words) (40%).
Cairns, Block, Study Period 9
Census Date 10-Oct-2013
Face to face teaching 30-Sep-2013 to 04-Oct-2013 (Cairns availability delivered as a 5 day intensive workshop which will be followed up with work online.)
Coordinator:	Dr Maree Dinan-Thompson, Bill Sultmann
Contact hours:	20 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	in-class test - 10 short responses (50 words) (10%); unit of work and essay (1500 words) (50%); in-class assessment - essay (1200 words) (40%).

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