1. QCEC CURRICULUM COLLOQUIUM 12-13 June 2014 David Hutton Coordinator – Faith Formation and RE Programs National Catholic Education Commission david@ncec.catholic.edu.au

2. WHAT CAN BE DONE TO SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE? BE CLEAR WHAT WE MEAN BY CURRICULUM - explicit, implicit, taught, classroom, hidden, integrated, co-curricular, everything in a Catholic school?? WE NEED TO BE BOTH INTEGRATED/WHOLISTIC AND ATTENTIVE TO THE ELEMENTS: INTENTIONALITY LACK OF CLARITY MIGHT MEAN WE LET OURSELVES 0FF THE HOOK – ALL THINGS CATHOLIC??

3. WHAT IS CATHOLIC? WE ARE A BROAD CHURCH SEE ARBUCKLE (2013:62-65) ELEVEN DIFFERENT CATHOLIC IDENTITIES HOW DO WE IDENTIFY THE ‘ESSENTIALS’ AND THE APPROPRIATE PROCESSES: JOURNEY/DIALOGUE? AVOID FUNDAMENTALISM/DOGMATISM AND RELATIVISM

4. HOW DO WE WORK TOWARDS A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE IN THE EXPLICIT CURRCULUM? LEADER AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT AND FORMATION: CONFIDENT AND COMPETENT: AVIOD A ‘DOUBLE POPULATION’ OF TEACHERS PRINCIPLES - NEED TO INTEGRATE - THEOLOGY (Gospel tradition, authority and freedom) - DISCIPLINE KNOWLEDGE - PEDAGOGY MULTI-LEVEL APPROACH: - PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS - PRACTICAL STRATEGIES AND RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS POPE FRANCIS: MERCY, INCLUSION, DIALOGUE (the great values…, truth, good and beauty..)

5. WHERE TO FROM HERE? ANOTHER CONFERENCE: TO WHAT END? ENSURE THAT A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE IN THE CURRICULUM IS INTEGRATED INTO POLICIES, ROLE DESCRIPTIONS, PERFORMANCE REVIEWS, SCHOOL REVIEW PROCESSES ETC SPONSOR RESEARCH, WRITING, RESOURCING AND ACTION-REFLECTION PROJECTS MAP WHAT IS ALREADY HAPPENING AND SHARE IT: A POSSIBLE NATIONAL PROJECT FOR NCEC?