The secular spirituality of youth: Implications for religious education

British Journal of Religious Education

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 133-143

  Crawford, Marisa ^a   Rossiter, Graham ^b  

^a Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 61149602646     PISSN: 01416200     EISSN: 17407931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0141620960180302     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. M L Crawford and G M Rossiter, 'The Spirituality of Today's Young People: Implications for Religious Education in Church-related Schools', Religious Education Journal of Australia, 9:2 (1993), pp.1-8.
2. The Fourth R: The Durham Report on Religious Education (London: National Society/SPCK, 1970), pp.273-283.
3. M L Crawford and G M Rossiter, 'The Nature of Religious Education in Public Schools: The Quest for an Educational Identity', Panorama: International Journal of Comparative Religious Education and Values, 5:1 (1993), pp.77-94.
4. We claim that the overlap between a general religious education and a specifically denominational one should be significant where there is a basic similarity between church and state schools as regards the open, inquiring education that students experience across the curriculum. (This may not be the case in a minority of religious schools that are self-consciously authoritarian in method and where student questioning is not encouraged.) Preliminary ideas on this question have been discussed in: G M Rossiter, Religious Education in Australian Schools (Canberra: Curriculum Development Centre, 1981), chapters 1-4;
5. G M Rossiter, 'Studying Religion in Australian Schools' in R B Crotty (ed), The Charles Strong Lectures: 1972-1984 (Leiden: E J Brill, 1987);
6. M L Crawford and G M Rossiter, 'Some Key Issues for Australian Research in School Religious Education', Religious Education Journal of Australia, 8:2 (1992), pp.8-12.
7. Studies of Religion (Sydney: NSW Board of Studies, 1991).
8. M L Crawford and G M Rossiter, 'Teaching Wisdom: Religious Education and the Spiritual and Moral Development of Young People', Journal of Christian Education, Papers 101 (1992), pp.47-62.
9. H Loukes, Teenage Religion (London: SCM Press, 1961);
10. New Ground in Christian Education (London: SCM Press, 1965);
11. Teenage Morality (London: SCM Press, 1973).
12. See, for example, M H Grimmitt, What Can I do in RE? (2nd Edition) (Great Wakering: Mayhew McCrimmon, 1978)
13. and M H Grimmitt, Religious Education and Human Development: The Relationship Between Studying Religions and Personal Social and Moral Education (Great Wakering: McCrimmons, 1987).
14. Evidence of status problems with both Religious Education and Personal and Social Education is noted in reports from the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED). Religious Education and Collective Worship 1992-1993 (London: OFSTED, 1994), p.15, see also pp.5-6, 13-16, 20;
15. Analysis of SACRE Reports 1993 (York: National Curriculum Council, 1993), pp. 4-7.
16. K E Nipkow, Pre-conditions for Ecumenical and Interreligious Learning: Observations and Reflections from a German Perspective (Sydney: Australian Catholic University Moral and Religious Education Project, 1991).
17. This sort of question proposes to help students to learn how to 'read' the media more critically and become more resistant to being naively shaped by the presumed values and life-expectations embedded in the narratives of film and television. An example of the background to such a study of culture is evident in M Warren, Communications and Cultural Analysis: A Religious View (Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey, 1992). He stresses Raymond Williams' ideas about the way in which culture is constructed and communicated, making it a process that can and should be analysed and critiqued, and not unthinkingly accepted as a given with social influences that are inevitable.
18. M L Crawford and G M Rossiter, 'Curriculum Difficulties: Devotional and Emotional Titles, Presumptive Language and the Spiral Curriculum', chapter 10 in Missionaries to a Teenage Culture: Religious Education in a Time of Rapid Change (Sydney: Christian Brothers Province Resource Group, 1988).
19. M H Grimmitt, 'World Religions and Personal Development' in G M Castles and G M Rossiter (eds), Curriculum Theory and Religious Education (Sydney: Australian Association for Religious Education, 1983), p.26.
20. G Malizia and Z Trenti, Una Disciplina in Cammino: Rapporto sull'lnsegnamento della Religione Cattolica nell'Italia Degli Anni 1990 [English translation: An Evolving Enterprise: Report on the Teaching of Religion in Catholic Schools in Italy in 1990] (Torino: Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1991);
21. G M Rossiter, The Religious Education Needs of Catholic Children in Government Schools, Part B: The Research Background (Sydney: Australian Catholic University Moral and Religious Education Project, 1992).