Books - Faith
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‘Teaching Religion’
One of the books in my current book pile is ‘The Teaching of Religion in Catholic Schools’ by JJ Branigan, I am so fascinated by this book. Written in 1952 in response to a demand by the Catholic Teachers’ Federation in England this gem addresses the ‘how to’ teach the Faith, citing that the ‘current’ approach of drilling Catechism whilst having its place was producing boredom. The author has researched various methods such as the Munich Method which returns to the teaching Methods of the Early Church, each lesson in oral or narrative form, is in three steps, presentation, explanation and application. And the Vorselaar Method which is taught from…
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Early Church /Roman History
This Term we have been studying Roman History. We started back at Easter time by reading many books from the Time of Christ. This flowed very nicely into Early Church history. We have covered from 33AD to 300AD using RC History as our spine. I have found RC History very useful this term as I was needing something from a Catholic worldview and was tired of inventing the wheel from scratch. It answered those needs but from our families viewpoint it lacked in areas too. It lacks sufficient hands-on projects and lacks plenty of read alouds, I have two children who read an enormous amount, I also felt it lacked…
