Relationship of School, Family and Parish to Religious Education



Relationship of School, Family and Parish to Religious Education

Introduction

A major revolution in the culture has been observed in the Australian Society over the previous twenty years. Many modifications have been made simpler than others to recognise and calculate in terms of their impact on the parish and society. Some of these modifications and alterations are the women's movement, post war immigration, the development of a social underclass, the growth in wealth by a minority, the impact of the mass media, higher standards of living, and the decline in religious practice.

Various other amendments and modifications are intricate to recognize, the decline in religious belief, the growth in materialism, the development of the cults of the youth and self, and the modifications in the principles to focus on the individual practicality, achievement, equality, achievement, material comfort, freedom, humanitarianism and rationality. It is at the stage of the relations of the interpersonal particularly the relations of the family that have mainly of the chief results, that are both bad and good have been felt. In various kinds the Australian society is a better society which includes the religious practices as well.

In the history of the Australian European at no time has children being more secured and defended by the law in the society, parish and the family (Graham, 1994). To improve, develop and progress the relationships of the humans no such information was provided earlier. After the practices of the religious studies in the schools and institutes the women enjoy a better possibility than earlier for the equality and dignity in the marriage and other relationships. The religious education is very important in the human society and has a significant relationship with the schools, families and parishes.

Discussion

Types of Curriculum in Catholic Schools

Since the inception of Catholic schools in Australia, there has been a unified declaration from supporters that the religious education was planned more and implemented less in the context of religious education taught in religion class. Religious education was taught with the aim of augmenting the overall experience of education in school.

The teachings of Elliot Eisner state that schools implement the use of 3 types of curriculum. The first one is the offering of subjects, materials and texts. It focuses on addressing the question of what is said and applied in school. The second one revolves around the organization aspect pertaining to schools (Ryan, 2007). It focuses on the aspect of educating people of how things are done and said in schools.

Role of Catholic Values

Although there is a huge role of catholic values in the shaping of religious individuals, the educators have failed to a great extent in incorporating the use of catholic values in the curriculum. There has been a lack of focus on aspects of catholic values and religious emotions pertaining to the designing of curriculums in catholic schools.

There have been major difficulties in finding specific instances in this context while a lot of speeches have addressed this issue (Askew, ...