The school Religious Education program has been developed by Emmaus College to facilitate the vision, philosophy and intent of the Religious Education Syllabus of the Diocesan Catholic Education Office and to play its central role in the implementation of Emmaus’ Curriculum Framework. Religious Education (RE) is a KLA which explicitly fosters and supports the integrity of Emmaus as a distinctly Catholic School.
Religious Education at Emmaus, in conjunction with other subjects and strongly linked with our emphasis on the spiritual growth of the whole community, plays a vital role in Emmaus’ mission to “provide holistic, relevant Catholic secondary education.”
It is an academic subject which interacts with and complements the College’s catechetical activities liturgies, prayers, retreats and pastoral programme.
RE provides a framework whereby relevant and effective life-long and life-wide learning activities and assessment practices can be experienced with a view to each student growing toward some degree of religious literacy as they seek truth, wisdom and justice on their journey through the school.
This growth depends largely on knowledge of religion which is the focus of this program. While knowledge and understanding of the Catholic religion forms the basis of the program, inclusion of other Christian and non-Christian religions is seen as vital to the students’ life-long and life-wide learning experiences which are based on mutual respect.
RE also aims to enable this growth through actively creating an awareness of Christian values such as Justice and Compassion for all with a special emphasis on the ‘option for the poor’ as well as exploring their implications for everyday living. RE then aims to also create an awareness of the need to actively challenge ideas, structures, morals or beliefs which oppose Christian values with specific emphasis on contemporary situations.
RE aims to develop in students and ability to:
Develop skills for:
- becoming more reflective people
- exploring life experiences in the light of Christian tradition and with respect for other traditions
- Christian decision-making and living
- Critical evaluation of both historical and contemporary situations
- Forming life-giving relationships
Through Religious Education, students become empowered to live more fully as human persons, to participate actively and with integrity in the contexts of the classroom, the school and wider society “intimately connected with others and actively involved in shaping a socially just future.”
(Diocesan Learning Framework, 2003)
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Religion Course Structure
