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School Choice May Not Be a Shangri-La
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Jeynes, William H. – Religious Education, 2017
For the past half century, the American public school system has been on the receiving end of a considerable amount of criticism. People of faith have often been at the forefront of expressing that criticism. Attached to their criticism religious people have often called for school choice programs that include faith-based schools as the…
Descriptors: School Choice, Criticism, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change
Gospel Values and Catholic Education: Revitalizing the Faith Community in a Culture of "Whatever"
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Shields, Richard – Religious Education, 2018
The Second Vatican Council introduced a new narrative for Catholic school. Rather than serving a primarily catechetical purpose, Catholic schools were to share in the Church's evangelizing mission by embodying an ideal learning community in a manner rooted in Gospel values. This paper argues that Gospel values are not exported from the Bible and…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Values Education, Religious Factors
Learning the Faith in England in the Later Middle Ages: Contributions of the Franciscan Friars
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Lawson, Kevin E. – Religious Education, 2012
In popular understanding, the late Middle Ages has been viewed as a time of relative religious ignorance for both laity and clergy. Recent scholarship is indicating a more knowledgeable and vigorous faith experience in this time period. This article examines the major educational ministry renewal of the church in England following the Fourth…
Descriptors: Clergy, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Spiritual Development
Interreligious Education: What Would Dewey Do?
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Ghiloni, Aaron J. – Religious Education, 2011
This article explores interreligious education from the perspective of John Dewey's educational philosophy. Keenly aware that twentieth-century individuals and societies would have an expanding plurality of experiences, Dewey proposed a democratic educational philosophy able to account for life in a pluralistic world. Three interconnected themes…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democratic Values, Religious Education, Interpersonal Communication
Catechesis and Religious Education in Canadian Catholic Schools
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Rymarz, Richard – Religious Education, 2011
A key concept in contemporary Catholic educational discourse makes a distinction between religious education and catechesis. This distinction is based on the assumptions of faith commitment on the part of catechesis and the focus on cognitive outcomes on the part of religious education. Many official documents on Canadian Catholic school…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Foreign Countries, Religious Education
A New Theological Culture in Order to Get a Deeper Understanding of the Richness of Religion and Religiosity in the Midst of Global Cultural Flow
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Scharer, Matthias – Religious Education, 2010
The author believes that the future of learning religion and religiously learning does not primary depend on new methods or medias transferring faith or religiosity to people's lives. It depends more on a change of theological awareness and of people's ways of theologizing in the midst of cultural flow in order to get a deeper understanding of the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Religion, Foreign Countries, Philosophy