Teaching Aboriginal Culture

are actually wanting more volunteers and are willing to arrange certain times??. When reflecting on my faith, I have learnt the importance of helping others. There are so many teachings that promote helping others, and by completing this volunteering, I have learnt that it is incredibly important to follow these teachings. Mark 10:45 states “For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve” which through this service learning programme, we all called to follow Jesus by serving others.…

How could Dogme and Emergent Language theories influence classroom practice? Dogme and Emergent Language theories both challenge the traditional teaching methods. A Dogme theory approaches teaching from a ‘materials light’ perspective, with very little to none of the classroom activities coming from a textbook or syllabus (Boyadzhieva, 2014, p. 783). The idea is to get the students’ to become autonomous learners and for them to come to the classroom with their own set of objectives. All tasks…

of the dignity of human life, the principle of the preferential option for the poor is the cornerstone by which all the other points of social thought are held in comparison to. With respect to the teachings of the Church, an option for the poor and maligned closely matches the historical Jesus’ teachings concerning social thought in the Gospels. Mich lists seven themes concerning CST. These include the aforementioned principle of promoting the life and dignity of the human person; a call to…

history and addressed congress. Throughout the Pope’s address he explained the importance of the Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching and how it relates to our daily lives and endeavors. Pope Francis starts off his address by , redefining congresses responsibilities to our nation. He begins with explaining congress's role in one of Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching, the Rights and Responsibilities congress has to our nation. “Your own responsibility as members of Congress is to…

Billie Holiday, occasionally known as Lady Day, was a well known harlem renaissance singer. Billie Holiday's life was an intriguing yet very misfortunate story. Billie Holiday had gone through many obstacles in her lifetime. Even as she rose to fame, problems in her short life never seem to go away. Billie Holiday had to overcome through problems like addiction, prostitution, rape, etc... Throughout her entire life, from her early life to death Billie Holiday had to face and many struggles and…

perception that everyone else is equally as good as they themselves are, and should be treated as such. This expression of goodness that should be directed at all people, as well as all God’s creations, is love. Through the Catholic religion and its teachings, we are told to love God, and to love…

students at the Felician College Child Care Center located on Felician University’s Lodi Campus. The Felician College Child Care Center, founded in 1987, consists of Felician Sisters and lay teachers who uphold many of the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. Their philosophy is that each child ought to be treated as a unique individual because each one of us is a distinct…

reevaluate my spiritual beliefs, I have been able to make my own religious decisions, such as just praying on my own time and being less fixated on following every single doctrine. I am still very connected to some of the values of Catholic social teachings, such as protecting the dignity and worth of the person and social justice, which also happen to be parts of the NASW Code of Ethics. There are some parallels that exist and those are usually the Catholic beliefs I tend to still agree with…

Introduction Dorothy day was born on the 8th of November 1897 in New York City to her parent John and Grace Day. Throughout her life, starting at a young age, had to face a number of difficulties, these included: leaving her life in New York to move to Chicago, having to face a period of poverty after her family lost their home and their income to an earthquake, getting arrested and going on hunger strikes in a protest, and even having failed relationships and an abortion. During these hard…

Universal Basic income has direct impacts of several principles of Catholic Social Teaching and its potential to impact the social good. Intimate involvement with core values associated with the social good and individual responsibilities are prerequisite to understanding the impetus behind establishing a UBI. While further analysis is needed before it can be equated with increasing the common good of mankind, it does have several aspects that are aimed at improving the well-being of all,…