Student Priorities for Topics, Pedagogies, and Outcomes in Senior Secondary Religious Education : An Australian Perspective
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Sultmann, William Francis, Lamb, Janeen Therese, Ivers, Peter James and Craig, Mark. (2024). Student Priorities for Topics, Pedagogies, and Outcomes in Senior Secondary Religious Education : An Australian Perspective. Religions. 15(9), pp. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091029
Authors | Sultmann, William Francis, Lamb, Janeen Therese, Ivers, Peter James and Craig, Mark |
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Abstract | This paper reports on one part of a larger longitudinal empirical study (2021–2023) that responds to the call for Religious Education (RE) to address religious plurality in the context of senior Catholic schooling within an Australian Archdiocese where students represent multiple faith traditions or no traditions. The research focuses on the level of satisfaction by students across Topics, Pedagogies, and Outcomes within a new and innovative senior school curriculum, Religion Meaning and Life (RML) based on national RE guidelines. Participants included 276 students across 17 schools who completed an online survey with 32 of these students participating in focus group interviews. Data analysis of quantitative data was both descriptive and inferential, and qualitative data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Topics of most interest were Ethics and Other World Religions; pedagogies entailing dialogue and use of media and technologies were rated highly; and learning outcomes entailed awareness of school mission, the religious dimension of the school, and pastoral care. Inferential statistical analyses confirm four core topics, pedagogies, and outcomes as significant to levels of satisfaction and in combination accounted for 42% of the variance of satisfaction with RML. Theoretical propositions for what matters most in senior secondary RE were advanced through four integrating principles (educational, formative, social, communitarian) and practice implications that preference Catholic tradition, and reference religious plurality. |
Keywords | Australia; Catholic; religious education; students; senior secondary; curriculum innovation |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Journal | Religions |
Journal citation | 15 (9), pp. 1-11 |
Publisher | MDPI |
ISSN | 2077-1444 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15091029 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/9/1029 |
Open access | Open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Page range | 1-11 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 23 Aug 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 18 Aug 2024 |
Deposited | 11 Oct 2024 |
Additional information | © 2024 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. |
This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | |
Place of publication | Switzerland |
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/90zzq/student-priorities-for-topics-pedagogies-and-outcomes-in-senior-secondary-religious-education-an-australian-perspective
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