Old Ideas, New Practices: When Religion Is for Relationships
Old Ideas, New Practices: When Religion Is for Relationships

Author: Bernard Lawrence Potvin

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2021-03-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1725284685

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This book is an upstream solution to the problems, issues, and questions young people struggle with downstream--alienation, boredom, and mistrust of religion. It includes over a hundred teaching strategies, tactics, logistics, and relationship builders that teachers in homes, schools, and churches can use. This book is a treasure chest of old ideas cast into new and proven teaching practices, each to be mined for the gem in it. Potvin's interest in writing this book, however, is not to focus on what is broken and ineffective in Christian religious education (and a lot of education is broken and ineffective) but on what he has learned to be proven to be effective. He has drawn from his PhD studies, parenting with its perturbations and insights, and over forty years of teaching in universities, public, and faith-based schools. Jesus gave us our program of studies, with much to think about and practice what could work--to bring us to our true self, friendship with the Creator, love for others, and justice for all. And given the unprecedented trend towards home education and online teaching, designed for and led by parents, new practices based on old ideas may be just what the doctor ordered.

A Study of the Problem of Religious Education in the Public Schools
A Study of the Problem of Religious Education in the Public Schools

Author: Thomas C. Borrelli

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13:

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"This paper aims to present a brief but comprehensive review of the relation, attitudes and views of this nation's leaders, civic, educational and religious, in connection with the inclusion or religious training in the public schools. It is only fair to admit that this study will endeavor to prove that some sort of religious education, whether it be under the domain of the family, the school or the Church, is necessary for the spiritual and social well-being of our future citizens, and, consequently, of our nation. This paper cannot help by point in that direction because the fruits of research, under the light of objectivity and a dispassionate weighing of the evidence, consistently show a deep anxiety for the spiritual, moral development of our youth and a deep resolve that something must be done about this grievous omission in the development of the whole child...Furthermore, this study will, it is hoped, shed light on certain pertinent questions intrinsically bound up with the problem at hand. These questions need not be specifically enunciated in the main body of this essay, but they will be evident indirectly through a necessarily brief discussion of various aspects of the problem facing the nation. These are the questions. What do our nation's leaders say concerning religious education? Can religious training of the youth remain solely the problem of the home and Church, or must the public schools adopt the task? What is the place of religion in the public schools? Is there a real need today for religious education? What are the main objections to the inclusion of religious education in the public schools? What is the historical picture of religious education? What major plans have been proposed? Has the American principle of separation of Church and state been correctly and justly interpreted? Is character training and moral training synonymous? Is a solution favorable to all possible? What is the opinion of the Catholic Church?"--Leaves 2-4.

Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe
Religious Education in a Multicultural Europe

Author: Emer Smyth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-08-29

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1137281502

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Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.