Religious Education
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This module of Café Theologica consists of five 70 minute sessions and one 90 minute session. This module covers topics such as Jesus' approach to teaching, the role of the educator and the family in Christian education, the place of teaching children and adults about Christianity and different learning styles.
Download a sample of part of this module.
Session 1
In this segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with children’s ministry specialists Yvonne Gunning and Elly Castle, together with Janelle Tassell. All three have worked as school teachers. They explore Jesus’ approach to education and consider how our approach to Christian education profoundly shapes our view of the learner, teacher and material being taught.
Session 2
In this segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with John McClean, lecturer in Theology at the Presbyterian Theological Centre in Sydney, Denis Oliver, minister at Hornsby Heights Anglican, and Jenny Bolton, mother of two preschool children. Together they discuss the role of education in evangelism and the approach to Christian education by the local Church. They also review the issue of responsibility for education between parents, the state and the Church.
Session 3
In this segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with Yvonne Gunning and Elly Castle. They look at how learning theorists might help us to think about some of the things that we expect of children in religious education.
Session 4
In this segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with Elly Castle, Carolyn Vaughan, who is involved in local church youth ministry and holds a degree in Psychology, and Tim Quadrio, who has spent time as an overseas missionary and is now studying Law and Politics. They discuss how learning theorists might offer frameworks for working with adolescents, along with a more basic question of what a Christian education program should be trying to achieve.
Session 5
In this segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with Elly Castle and Carolyn Vaughan. Here they look at how learning theorists might offer frameworks that help us describe and understand the Christian Education of adults. They also consider the question of what is it that churches should be trying to achieve in their Christian education programs.
Session 6
In this double CD segment of Café Theologica, Nathain Secker is speaking with Karen Astles, Duncan Robinson and Ray Irving. All three have extensive experience in working with youth. They discuss generations and generational change in Australia today and what impact this has on Christian Education, evangelism and discipleship. They also take a look at post-modernity and its implications for Christian education and the Church at large.
