ED2618 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Clay Animation, Bible Concordance, In Step
Principles of Primary Religious Education
Lecture Five – Week Five – Story Telling
Events in our lives
- Chris Yarren
o A life powerfully restored
o John 3:16
o Resilience and power
How can we bring real life stories into religious education?
- Stories
o Children will take the literal versions
o Talk about the truths within the stories
▪ Feeding of the 500
• Miracle isn’t that he produced these foods, but the miracle is the people coming
together from all over the land
- Biblical story telling
- Scripture is story
- ‘Who is God’ and ‘What is God like’
Bibles
- The Catholic Children’s bible – Early years K-2
- Breakthrough Bible – Years 3-6
- The Catholic Youth Bible – Secondary & Teachers
- Tools of the trade
- Scripture resources
Godly Play
- Play dough story telling
- Powerful teaching value
- teach values
- clarify the truth
- offer opportunities to laugh and cry
- awaken spiritual awareness
- heal wounds
- develop the ‘memory bank’
- build communities
Scripture is story
- The story of our faith that makes God present to us and guides and opens us up to the mystery of
God, enabling us to experience a deeper reality of God, giving us identity as the People of God
and revealing our faith tradition
Who is God and What is God like?
- In Religious Education, teachers need to develop reading and interpretation skills to appreciate the
understanding of God and religious experience that are presented in the biblical text.
o [Ryan and Malone, p.95]
- All teaching of scripture must proceed from a clear understanding that the Bible is a theological
interpretation of and a reflection on historical realities and faith experiences.
o [Ryan and Malone, p.98]
- Children should be introduced to the Bible itself, not to ‘bible stories’ that have been written for
children and often ‘watered down’.
- Children’s first understanding of the Bible will be literal; this literal understanding is an essential stage
of their faith development.
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Document Summary
Lecture five week five story telling. Chris yarren: a life powerfully restored, john 3:16, resilience and power. Who is god" and what is god like". The catholic children"s bible early years k-2. The catholic youth bible secondary & teachers. Powerful teaching value teach values clarify the truth. The story of our faith that makes god present to us and guides and opens us up to the mystery of. God, enabling us to experience a deeper reality of god, giving us identity as the people of god and revealing our faith tradition. In religious education, teachers need to develop reading and interpretation skills to appreciate the understanding of god and religious experience that are presented in the biblical text. All teaching of scripture must proceed from a clear understanding that the bible is a theological interpretation of and a reflection on historical realities and faith experiences.
