NZCEO are pleased to make available recordings of the 2021 Symposium Series—a programme of three online symposia focusing on matters of interest to Catholic educationalists.
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No one falls in love with a concept: getting to the heart of Catholic education
In an increasingly plural, secular world, driven by the dictates of a global economy, there are varying views on the purpose of schooling. There is a push for it to have a more utilitarian emphasis and while we certainly want education to be relevant, we want it to be more than just that. What does Catholic education have to offer a world that is seeking to find a new way of being human?
In Giving We Receive (download .pptx)
Let’s Talk About God – the neglected dimension of the RE classroom?
Over the past 20 years Dr Sandra Cullen has observed around 450 RE lessons, observing only one lesson about God – where God was the intended subject of the lesson. Why are we able, how are we able to consider RE without reference to God? Why are we more comfortable teaching about religion, faith, spirituality, etc. than teaching about God – than letting God be the focus of the RE lesson? In this session Dr Cullen outlines some reasons for this and then suggest that religious educators need a space to develop confidence in their own God-talk and appropriate support for how to do this.
Let’s talk about God (download .pptx)
Let’s Talk About God – Presentation Notes (download .pdf)
We can do it: Integrating the big four Catholic Social Teaching Principles in life
This session explores how the four core Catholic Social Teaching principles of human dignity, common good, solidarity and subsidiarity can lead students to engage in feasible, personally meaningful social decision making and social action within the wider curriculum.