Jesus - a portrait by Gerald O'Collins

Jesus: A Portrait, Gerald O'Collins.

Electronic copy
Staff and teachers at Catholic Education Parramatta can access an electronic copy of 'Jesus a portrait' book via our Ebook library. This can be be viewed online or downloaded to your Desktop. Or you can download it your iPad via the Blue Fire reader app. Scan the QR code on the left to take you to the Ebook Library version.
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A physical copy of this book is also available via the Learning Exchange.
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For further reviews on this book click on the following links

http://www.thinkingfaith.org/articles/BOOK_20080828_1.htm

http://www.catholicireland.net/books/faith-theology-a-the-church/1681-jesus-a-portrait

http://www.catholicleader.com.au/news.php/reviews/a-portrait-of-jesus_44785

Environmentally sustainable schools

Recent web resources
How green is your school?
Around 7,000 schools in England have signed up to the Eco-Schools programme and more are joining every week says the Teacher Expertise website. Set up in 1994, the programme is run by the Foundation for Environmental Education with the aim of involving young people in finding solutions to environmental and sustainable development challenges. It is a concept which is proving highly popular. It sets out to show children that by taking small steps, such as recycling or composting, they can have a big impact on the global environment as well as their own community. For the full article on this topic click here.

Planning and funding environmental improvements to your school grounds
This article from Teachingexpertise website summarises a number of environmental programmes in the UK. One programme run by REEP (Religious Education and Environment Programme) aims to provide unusual and thought-provoking resources for teachers promoting the links between religion and the environment. It works with all faiths and is non-denominational. Central to its work is the REEP awards. These are open to schools in England, Scotland and Wales, regardless of age group or spiritual orientation. The task is to design a garden that reflects spiritual and community values and to submit the design using ICT. The website www.reep.org provides free resources to schools and the organisation also holds training days to support entrants into the garden awards scheme.

Eco school project at Kirkley High School
A case study of Kirkley High Schools plan to establish itself as an eco-school. To achieve the aim, local and global environmental issues had to be developed through discrete curriculum time, through cross curricula links and through extra- curricula activities.

Other online resources
On Holy Ground
This site enables easy access to an ecological vision statement (On Holy Ground) for Catholic Schools and agencies.
On Holy Ground provides a rationale and planning framework to assist catholic schools and organisations to become more ecologically sustainable and live out their ecological vocation
Catholic Earthcare Australia
Earthcare Australia's mission is to help promote understanding among people that Creation is sacred and endangered, and must be protected and sustained for present and future generations yet unborn.
NSW Sustainable Schools network
Catholic schools are joining the NSW Sustainable Schools community
http://www.sustainableschools.nsw.edu.au/
Australian Sustainable Schools Iniatitive
(AuSSI) involves a holistic approach to education for sustainability with measurable environmental, financial, educational and social outcomes. It implements improvements in a school's management of resources and grounds and integrates this approach into the existing curriculum and daily running of the school. Students participate in an action learning - or learning by doing - process.
Sustainability Education (Aust. Govt Dept of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts)
Sustainability education develops skills, knowledge and values that promote behaviour in support of a sustainable environment. It is not confined to formal schooling. It also occurs in a wide range of non-formal education settings at work and at home.
Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability
The aim of Living Sustainably: the Australian Government's National Action Plan for Education for Sustainability, launched in April 2009, is to equip all Australians with the knowledge and skills required to live sustainably. The plan has been prepared in conjunction with the National Council on Education for Sustainability by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.
Education for Sustainability in School Education
This site aims reviews a number of programs to attempt to answer the following questions:

• What does a Sustainable School look like?
• Is there a formula for 'how' to run an effective and wide reaching whole-school sustainability program?
• Is there evidence of effective methods to engage the community in these endeavours?
• What are the critical success components?

Cleanup the world

Cleanup Australia

Selected resources held by TLRU
Available for borrowing

• The Garden Planet DVD
• Awakening Universe DVD
  
• Care for creation
• Ecology at the Heart of Faith
  
• Leaving smaller footprints
• Best practice in environmental education in New South Wales schools
• Activate your students : a problem-based learning approach to sustainability
• Cradled in human hands : a textbook on environmental responsibility
• Literacies in place : teaching environmental communications
• Blueprints for greening schools : principles, policies and practices for environmental education in Australian secondary schools

St Andrews Marayong, John Paul II school and their environmental activities

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Religious education

From the Vatican to the classroom Part2: examining intertextuality and alignment among church, local diocesan and school religious education documents.
Journal of Religious Education, Vol 56 No 4, 2008.

St Paul on the Lord’s supper, Liturgy News, Dec 2008, pp3-5.

Weaving the threads of meaning: a characteristic of children’s spirituality and its implication for religious education, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol 30, No 3, Sep 2008, pp 235-245.

Religion resources via the Web

Papal encyclicals online

Catholiclife resources

BUBL Link (UK) Catalogue of Internet Resources : Religion
Librarians' Internet Index : Religion

Resources for Catholic Educators

The Five Gospels Parallels

Religious education

Getting time and space for prayer, Momentum, Apr/May 2008, pp 40-43.

Developing a pyramid of intervention: a framework for assisting students who do not meet minimum academic standards, Principal matters, Winter 2008, pp26-31.

Implementing systemic reforms in a challenging context: developing effective RE curriculum for 21st century leaders, Journal of Religious Education Vol 56 (2) 2008, pp46-50.

Religious education

Making god known, loved, and served: the future of catholic primary and secondary schools in the United States, Catholic Education: A journal of inquiry and practice, Vol 11, No 3, Mar 2008, pp 276-312.

Religious education

Books
Cornerstones of Catholic secondary religious education :bprinciples and practice of the new evangelisation /Kath Engebretson ... [et al.].
Terrigal, N.S.W. : David Barlow Publishing,2008.

An introduction to Catholic education :current perspectives /Michael T. Buchanan, Richard Rymarz.
Terrigal, N.S.W. : David Barlow Publishing,2008.

The Australian Muslim student /Manar Chelebi ; edited by Kath Engebretson.
Terrigal, N.S.W. : David Barlow Publishing, 2008.

Journal articles
Ethics in a global world,: the Earth Charter and religious education, British Journal of Religious education, Vol 30, No 2, p165-170

Religious/Catholic Education

The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences, AD 2000, Dec/Jan 2007, p 6.

Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish preists, AD 2000, Dec/Jan 2007, p 7.

Demanding RE: engaging research, scholarship and practice to promote learning, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol 30, No 1, Jan 2008, pp1-2.

Contextual religious education and the interpretive approach, British Journal of Religious Education, Vol 30, No 1, Jan 2008, pp13-24.

Applying an action research approach to improving the quality of christian education - one school's experience, Journal of Christian Education, Vol 50, No 1, May 2007, pp 27-36.

Five ways the build catholic identity, Religion Teachers Journal, Jan 2008, pp16-17.

Planning for future learning in religious education, Journal of Religious Education, Vol 55 No 4, 2007, p 1.

Centring the scriptures: lost in a maze or exploring a labyrinth', Journal of Religious Education, Vol 55 No 4, 2007, p 50-55.

Follow-up to the Bishops' document "On renewing our committment to catholic elementary and secondary schools in the third millenium", Momentum, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 50-54.

Religious Education/Catholic education articles

Creating inclusive classrooms in catholic schools, Momentum, Sep/Oct 2007, pp8-12.

Changes in funding and governance of Catholic elementary education in the United States. British Journal of Religious Education, Vol 29, No 3, Sept 2007, pp 287-301.

Catholic family traditions, Inform: faith and life matters, No 110

Soul -freeing pursuits: a list of life-shaping books for children,Sojourners, Nov 2007, pp 48-51.

Religions and health: Is religion good for you health? Research suggest it can prolong life., Choic Health Reader, Oct 2007, p6.

Advent 2007, Come, let us walk into the light' Spirituality, Vol 13, Nov/Dec 2007, pp 331-335.

Religious/Catholic Education journal articles

Standing unprotected before God: a reflection on the reality of the spiritual combat., Spirituality, Vol 13, No. 73, Jul/Aug 2007, pp 222-226.

Christ's presence in the Church., Spirituality, Vol 13, No. 74, Sep/Oct 2007, pp 277-279.

Justice and Peace spirituality., Spirituality,Vol 13, No. 74, Sep/Oct 2007, pp 301-304

Liturgy and today's youth., Liturgy News, Vol 37 No. 3 Sep 2007, pp 6-8

Religion/Catholic education journal articles

The drama of Jesus and the Non-violent image of God: Raymund Schwager’s approach to the problem of Divine violence, Peter Stork, Pacifica, Vol 20, No. 2, June 2007, pp 185-203

The struggle for the soul: implication for the identity of Catholic teachers, Journal of Religious Education, Vol 55, No. 3, 2007, pp 46 -53

Teaching faith to the Internet Generation, Religion Teacher’s Journal, October 2007, pp14-15.

Religious Education journal articles

Why truth and charity are inseparable, AD 2000, Vol 20. No. 6, July 2007, pp 12-13

The Eucharist: Sacrament of Love. Inform: faith and life matters, No 108.

Models of evangelization, Origins, May 17, 2007, Vol 37, No 1, pp 8-11

The Eucharist: Sacrament of Love. Inform: faith and life matters, No 108.

Finding “Her story’: pilgrims in Rome examine women’s leadership roles in the early Christian Church, National Catholic Reporter, Jun 22, 2007, Vol 43, no 30, 2007, pp 10-13.

Catholic Australia - online resources

The Catholic Australia web site brings together resources relating to the Catholic Church in Australia. A Daily prayer section provides reflections and prayer. Other sections cover Scripture and Theology, the Church in Australia, Mission and Spirituality and resources for youth and young adults.

Religious education

Study of religion as religious education in catholic schools: a preliminary discussion.

Study of religion: Now essential for the development of religious education in Catholic schools
Journal of religious education Vol 55 No 1 2007 p 23-26 and p27- 29

Religious individualization: new challenges to education for tolerance
The focus of this article is on the relationship between tolerance and individualized religion as the most common type of adolescent religion in many western countries.
British Journal of Religious education Vol 29 No 1, Jan 2007 pp 89-100

How theologizing with children can work
‘Theologizing with children’ has arisen from influences of philosophizing with children, from research in the Piagetian tradition and also from the interest of the Evangelical church in Germany to ‘change to the child’s perspective’.
British Journal of Religious education Vol 29 No 2, Mar 2007 pp 127-139