The Purpose Of The Catholic Identity Of Our Schools

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2. The Catholic Identity of our schools. The purpose of Religious Education in the Archdiocese of Brisbane (200 words)

The Catholic Identity of our schools challenge students to be a religious voice in the world. In 1997 the Archdiocese of Brisbane has focused Religious Education in schools on a reconceptulist approach through the classroom teaching and learning of religion. The reconceptulist view is made up of two complementary yet distinct dimensions, which include teaching people religion and teaching people to be religious in a particular way (REF 1 Barry). “[The Catholic School]… tries to relate all of human culture to the good news of salvation so that the light of faith will illumine everything that the students will gradually come

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