Teaching Catholic Faith in a Ministry Context (DP2003C)

Content

This is a practical unit in a supervised ministry context. This unit focuses on developing skills in teaching the Catholic faith in a variety of ministry situations including programs supporting the New Evangelisation, sacramental preparation programs in parishes, adult education programs and Religious Education classes. Students will observe and reflect on the content and practice of such education programs in a variety of ministry situations, including parishes, and then develop and enact a plan to teach children, young people or adults in areas of Catholic faith and practice. The students will have the opportunity to work co-operatively with those already engaged in such faith ministry practice and with leaders in parish education programs.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

DP1001C and DP1002C

Pedagogy

Lectures, seminars and supervised practice

Indicative Bibliography

• Everist, Norma Cook, ed. 2007. The Church as Learning Community. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2002.
• -------------------------- ed. Christian Education as Evangelism. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2007.
• Moulds, Russ, ed. 2007. A teacher of the church: theology, formation and practice for the ministry of teaching. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
• Parrett, Gary and Steve Kang. Teaching the Faith, Forming the Faithful. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2009.
• Seymour, Jack L., ed. 1997. Mapping Christian education: approaches to congregational learning. Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press.
• Vella, Jane. 2002. Learning to listen, learning to teach: the power of dialogue in educating adults. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Assessment