Pedagogical Drift: The Evolution of New Approaches and Paradigms in Religious Education

What are they Saying about Catholic Schools? Discourse on PK-12 Catholic Education, 2005 to 2010

“…Despite the present challenges outlined above, several authors articulated historical and current best practice strategies for effective religious instruction (Buchanan, 2005;Engebretson, 2008). Scholarship such as that Catholic Schools: Discourse on PK-12 81 conducted by Buchanan (2005) provided an historical overview of global trends in curricular approaches to religious instruction.…”

“…Scholarship such as that Catholic Schools: Discourse on PK-12 81 conducted by Buchanan (2005) provided an historical overview of global trends in curricular approaches to religious instruction. Each curricular paradigm was outlined in great detail and specific implications for classroom pedagogy were discussed (e.g., a doctrinal approach to learning about Catholicism often relied on memorization as a core pedagogical technique).…”

Christian Families, Educative Lenses, and Incarnational Roots1

“…Have the roles changed all that much? Upon investigation, struggle and promise seem to be our paradoxical lineage (Buchanan 2005).…”

Faithful dissent and religious education in Canadian Catholic schools: a response to McDonough

“…Most of these do not arise out of a particularly conservative view of the curriculum or the place of the learner within it. They are part of a historical process that has seen religious education in Catholic schools move toward more educative models (Rummery 1977;Buchanan 2005).…”