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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Hess, Mary E. – Religious Education, 2011
Emerging social media that build on digital technologies are reshaping how we interact with each other. Religious education and identity formation within these new cultural flows demands recognition of the shifts in authority, authenticity, and agency that are taking place, as well as the challenges posed by "context collapse." Digital…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Social Networks, Self Concept, Story Telling
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Wimberly, Anne E. Streaty – Religious Education, 2003
Current relational crises in the global village and the damaging treatment of Mother Earth challenge religious educators to be leaders who will not shrink back from the responsibility of helping to create a better world. There is an intensifying call for these educators to carry out vocations that contribute to a sustainable communal and earth…
Descriptors: Leadership, Religious Education, Transformational Leadership, Goal Orientation
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McBrien, Philip J. – Religious Education, 1990
Presents a method of teaching liturgical texts, related to the lectionary. Describes Bernard L. Lee's shared homily method based on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical movements. Illustrates how Lee's homiletic method can be adapted into a disciplined conversation with the text for use in other religious instruction. (DB)
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Catholic Educators, Hermeneutics, Reader Response
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Proffitt, Anabel – Religious Education, 1993
Presents the 1991 McCauley Lecture in which the argument is made that teaching is participating in the student's own creation of life. Contends that the student also participates in the teacher's self-creation. Asserts that this interrelationship is more important for personal liberation than the written curriculum. (CFR)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Religion Studies, Role of Education