Teaching and Learning

Teaching and LearningWelcome to the CCRS@brightonPassing on the good newsWhere did we hear the good news?How? Who was responsible? When?What did we hear?

What role does evangelisation / catechesis have in our faith life?

What questions is this module trying to answer?How do we do it now?How should this be done?

To whom?

When?

Whose job is it?Sessions sequenceLearning faith learning history catechesis

Content: what are we passing on?

Delivering catechesis: planning a presentation

Your presentation and feedbackYour presentationA short catechesis in the last sessionWorking in pairs perhaps?Choose a topicFind relevant toolsPlan a session and tell us about itReceive feedback from the rest of usCould be written up as an assignmentYou will need:A Bible

A commentary

A Catechism of the Catholic Church

A developing sense of how adults learn bestYour experiences of learning.....Think of a really good learning experienceWhat made it good?

~think of a really awful learning experience.What made it so bad?

Think / pair/share then write on the posterSoWhat constitutes good learning?Ways of understanding learning and teachingInformation processingSocialPersonalBehavioural

+ReflectiveexperientialInformation processingPeople need to make sense of the world

People naturally categorise / classify

We develop data into concepts

We invent a language to communicate thisLearning stylesDifferent versions

assumptions? Warranted?

Can learning be restricted to a style of learning?

Implications for your teachingSocialPeople naturally from learning communities

Learning develops through interaction with others

Emphasises group work and group skillsInformal learning contextsSituated learningA specific contextThe development of a specific languageLearning means a movement from the periphery to the centre

E.g. An apprenticeshipCont.Communities of practice

Communities of peopleLearning within thisBuilding identity within thatDeveloping meaning within this communityLearning and membership entwinedPersonalBegins with the individualFocuses on self-knowledge and self understandingSeeks the creativeAims to achieve confidence, competence and self-worthAssociated with the work of Carl RogersEmotional intelligenceDaniel Goleman associated author

Intelligence and competence: confused?

Promotes learning the claimBehaviourHuman beings can correct / modify behaviour

Feedback from failure allows modification

Rewards and threats can be used to stimulate appropriate behaviourExperiential learningBuilds on concrete experienceWhich leads to further observation / reflectionLeads to generalisation and abstractionLeads to testing implicationsA spiral processReflective learningPractitioners reviewing own practice

A reflective cycle: experience reflection amended plan experience

Important for religious people?Key elementsWordsDefinitionsEducation or socialisationHistoryToolsWhat is learning in faith?What framework will help you?

HistoryEarly Church Didache (?50-60 AD)Constantine (312)Dark Ages (600-1000)Middle Ages (1000-1450)Reformation / Counter Reformation (1519 1564 +)20th century: educational and ecclesiological changeCatechetical movement (1960s +)2012 secularism; anti-authority; anti-church; anti-Christian; symbolic povertyCatechismsExisted in 8th century AlcuinCommon format of question answerLuther produced a catechismPenny Catechism produced by Charles Borromeo after the Council of Trent 1560+Need for orthodox statement of faithDanger of cementing in stoneKids v adultsPedagogy teaching children

Androgogy teaching adults

Today adult learning is seen as the priority

EvangelisationIs usually used of an initial pronouncement of the good newsBut the term new-evangelisation is used of those who are Catholic but not evangelisedKerygma the basic formula of Christian faith eg the fishThis would be followed by catechesis

CatechesisA very old term

Resurrected recently particularly in the RC Church

Means faith-sharing within a community

Re-echoing or re-telling

Is concerned with maturation of faithRite of Christian Initiation of AdultsRCIA now the norm for acceptance of adults into our communities

Template for modern catechesis

Key issues: sponsorship; readiness; learning in communityImportant things in RCIAFaith seen as dynamicFaith journey and faith story important ideasStaged initiationCelebrationThe community is seen as both the source and expression of faithAnthropocentricChristological and TrinitarianScriptural Religious education - schoolingOriginally all schooling was religious19th England: Christianity made a huge contribution to English school until 1988ERA 1988 no confessional RE anymore for state schoolsSupport for religious pluralism now requiredEducation about religion the tolerance agendaFaith schools within thisThe task is:To explore your own experience of faith formation

To find the framework which best describes this

To reflect on this and consider the implications for your parish / school context

To apply these thoughts to your presentationLook at your CatechismLook at the contents pageThen the different partsWhere are the sections on the creed?And the section which includes the 10 Commandments?And the section on prayer?Where is there material on forgiveness?Check out some references abbreviations given on P. xv