Course overview
This course aims to explore why Catholic Schools exist today, key research and beliefs about learners and teachers in Catholic Schools as well as pedagogies and professional practices that enhance the aims of Catholic Education. Participants will reflect on how Catholic theology contributes to the educator’s beliefs about children, childhood and adolescence, to their personal and professional identity and to choices about educational principles, methods and approaches best aligned to enhancing the mission of contemporary Catholic Schools.
- Shaping Catholic Education Today
- Catholic Anthropology
- Theology of the Young Person
- Catholic Social Teaching
- Worldview of the Learner
- Worldview of the Educator
- The Transformative Mission
- Activating the Identity and Mission
- The Reflective Educator
- Shaping the Future and Signs of Hope
Course learning outcomes
- Identify and critically discuss how Catholic anthropology and Catholic Social Teaching Principles directly shape educational practices in Catholic Schools
- Critically reflect on personal and professional teacher identity in the light of Catholic beliefs and values
- Examine and critique approaches to teaching and learning in Catholic School classrooms to enhance contemporary understandings of identity and mission of Catholic Schools
- Research, create, implement and evaluate a range of transformative practices appropriate for enhancing a contemporary Catholic School’s identity and mission
Availability
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 18246
Section TU04
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 18247
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 18248
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 18249
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 66398
Section TU04
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66399
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66400
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 66401
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Online
Group 1
Class number 60149
Section 01OL
Size 40
Available 40
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 25176
Section 01OL
Size 40
Available 40
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