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The objective of this module is twofold: to prepare participants to build on their experience of teaching R.E. on School Placement and, to enable them to advance their knowledge and appreciation of religion as a global phenomenon and of the search for meaning as a universal facet of the human person.
Two complementary constituents form the basis of this module, as in Year I. The pedagogical element extends participants’ teaching experience to the design and delivery of a longer series of lessons. Secondly, participants’ familiarity with the range of R.E. syllabuses currently in use in primary schools in Ireland is enhanced and deepened. Under the rubric of subject knowledge, participants are introduced to the academic fields of faith and belief, the question of God, global humanity’s search for meaning, and the relationship between faith and science.
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