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The T.I.T.U.S. Project: Implications Of A Catholic Spiritual And Faith Formation Programme On The Teaching Of Classroom Religious Education In Australia, Christine Robinson, Jessica Fic
The T.I.T.U.S. Project: Implications Of A Catholic Spiritual And Faith Formation Programme On The Teaching Of Classroom Religious Education In Australia, Christine Robinson, Jessica Fic
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This paper presents findings emanating from a larger investigation. In essence, this qualitative project sought to uncover the ways in which early childhood Religious Education (RE) teachers’ experience of a formation-based program, known as The T.I.T.U.S Project (Testament In Teachers Using Scripture), transformed their own religious literacy and subsequently, their teaching of RE; it is these findings that form the focus of this paper. Religious literacy is explained as consisting of more than content, to include the complex relationship of content with both context and learner. It is in this nexus between content, context and learner that The T.I.T.U.S Project …
Love In Education: West Australian Early Childhood Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives On Children's Right To Be Loved And Its Actualisation Within Their Future Practice, Dee O'Connor, Christine Robinson, Linda Cranley, G Johnson, Ainslie Robinson
Love In Education: West Australian Early Childhood Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives On Children's Right To Be Loved And Its Actualisation Within Their Future Practice, Dee O'Connor, Christine Robinson, Linda Cranley, G Johnson, Ainslie Robinson
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Children's right to love is a recognised fundamental human need set down within the 1992 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. This recognition stems from an acknowledgement that the Early Years of Development are emotionally driven (Degotardi, S., & Sweller, N. (2012). Mind-mindedness in infant child-care: Associations with early childhood practitioner sensitivity and stimulation. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 253–265. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2011.09.002.). Young children respond best to those with whom they experience love and acceptance (Carter, M. A., & Fewster, C. (2013). Diversifying early years’ professional learning: One size no longer fits all. Australasian Journal of …