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15 Dec 2007

The challenges facing Catholic Religious Education in Australia! In this third major commentary on Catholic Religious Education in Australia we explore the perspectives of an RE teacher, Peter Marendy, working at the coal-face in a Catholic Secondary College. We see this commentary as a "discussion starter" and encourage responses from teachers and educational administrators to the provocative perspectives this commentary raises from what is actually a diverse number of political perspectives. [more]

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24 Sep 2007

Three "very naughty boys"! As part of our on-going series looking at Catholic Education and the responsibilities we as a community have towards our young people we present an extended interview with three young men of approximately 25 years of age, all educated in Catholic primary and secondary schools who no longer have any significant connection with the Church. [more]

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04 Jun 2007

Catholic Religious Education in Australia — why and how it has changed... Catholic Education in Australia faced a major crisis in the 1960s to the point where the bishops of the time seriously considered having to close the entire system down because they simply did not have the resources to sustain it any longer. The new system that was established in the 1970s, thanks largely to government funding, is fundamentally different to the system of religious education that had existed in the past. In today's commentary, Dr Graham English, Senior Lecturer in Religious Education at ACU National, explores some of the other social and cultural factors that make Catholic Religious Education today so much different to what it was in the past. [more]