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Rymarz, Richard – Religious Education, 2022
The aim of this research was to get a better understanding of the work of school-based religious education leaders (SBREL) by examining the issues and challenges they face as well as how they are supported. SBREL were surveyed and interviewed, and they took part in focus groups. SBREL, in general, felt supported in their role. A major issue…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Barriers, Catholic Educators
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Hyde, Brendan – Religious Education, 2021
As an effective tool used within the evocative method of phenomenological inquiry, this article details the use of the written anecdotes of Godly Play storytellers in Australia to understand children as a means of grace. The phenomenological framework out of which the evocative method emanates is described, and four examples from the author's…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Story Telling, Children, Religious Factors
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Sultmann, William; Lamb, Janeen; Hall, David; Borg, Gary – Religious Education, 2021
The development and implementation of a trial Religious Education (RE) curriculum within a Catholic diocese of Australia was characterized by the scriptural metaphor "into the deep." Commentary (5300 words) from teacher developers (n = 40) and implementers (n = 85) were analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Findings…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Creative Teaching
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McDonough, Graham P. – Religious Education, 2020
This paper examines Catholic RE curriculum documents from 2 jurisdictions to assess how well they present Jews and Judaism. It finds that their representations of Jews and Judaism rely on structures of thought, reinforced by normative Catholicism, that enable the conditions to reproduce supersessionist thinking and attitudes. Its conclusion argues…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Religious Education, Catholics
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Pandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
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Bentley, Peter S.; Buchanan, Michael T. – Religious Education, 2017
The characteristics of a spiritual direction formation program as part of a postgraduate course were compared with a range of standard higher education academic agendas of learning. The formational characteristics included acknowledgment of prior experience, cooperative community approaches to learning, teachers as partners in learning, reflective…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Graduate Students, Comparative Analysis