Religious Education Year 12

Year 12

Students choose one of the Religion options during Year 12.

What is Religion (School-based) all about?

The Year 12 School-based Religion course has been designed with a focus on preparing students for active adult Christian citizenship. It reflects on the Christian values instilled through the example of Jesus and the Gospel teachings and through examination of the role of the Church and the individual in fulfilling the reign of God on Earth. Students will be encouraged to explore how faith and spirituality can shape identity and give purpose and meaning to life.

Who can I see about this?

Religious Education: Mr Caleb Ryan, Learning Area Leader
Mission and Formation: Mr Paul Lewis, Deputy Principal

Guidelines to the Units

Objectives

• To develop and raise awareness of the call to become active citizens within a Christian faith context.

• To examine key aspects of practising a living faith where all are called to be Christ’s witness through: prayer and developing a sense of spirituality and living Gospel values.

• To undertake an exploration of Catholic teachings within the context of an ethical issue.

• To encourage participation and experience with bringing the practice of Gospel values to the wider community through engagement with a Social Justice Project design initiative.

• To explore faith through the study of examples in biographical documentaries and studies of film.

• To develop study skills and goals as a means of maintaining a vocational and study focus throughout Year 12.

Learning Focus

1. Reflect on Gospel accounts of key turning points in Jesus’ life and his call to prayer.

2. To understand the positive role of doubt, failure and a sense of crisis in the process of growth in maturity and faith.

3. To compare Jesus’ growing sense of identity and vocation with their own unique search for identity and vocation.

4. To reflect on their own faith and its impact on their lives.

5. Recognise the personal and social implications of the challenge of the Gospel to build the reign of God in the world.

6. Respond to the call to discipleship through active citizenship and as a member of the school community.

7. Reflect on and trace our faith journey and to reflect on the faith journey of others.

8. Establish goals for vocation and study objectives and subject them to regular review

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B: Religion and Society Units 3 & 4

What is Religion and Society all about?

Religious Education is undertaken by all students in Years 11 and 12. At Saint Ignatius College we offer the VCE Units 1 – 4 in Religion and Society and a School-Based curriculum at Year 12. These studies offer students the opportunity to explore the core beliefs of religious traditions (Christianity and Islam), religious identity and ethics at Year 11, while at Year 12 students explore the expression of religious beliefs, life experience and the challenges religious traditions have faced over time.

Who can I see about this? Mr R Nieuwenhof

Guidelines to the Units

Unit Three: The Search for Meaning (as a sequence with Unit 4)

This unit focuses or core religious beliefs and the ways in which they express meaning for religious communities and individuals within them. Beliefs refer to ideas about reality held by individuals, groups, organisations and whole societies.

Areas of Study
1. Meaning in religious traditions.
2. The continuity and maintenance of religious beliefs
3. Life experience and religious beliefs

Outcomes
1. To explain and evaluate the significance of a range of core beliefs within one or more religious tradition/s.
2. To draw conclusions about the interplay between religious beliefs and significant life experiences.
3. To explain continuity in a core religious belief or beliefs within one or more tradition/s.

Unit Four: Challenge and Response

Religious traditions change and develop over time. They respond to the needs of their membership, and to changes in society, while seeking to maintain their convictions and credibility. Religious traditions themselves can provide the impetus for social change, or they may respond to external challenges.

Areas of Study
1. Historical challenges to religious traditions
2. Contemporary challenges and their impact

Outcomes
1. To analyse how one or more religious tradition/s responded to a significant internal challenge, and evaluate the outcome for the tradition/s.
2. To analyse the interplay between religious beliefs and the vision of each tradition for society, and the way one or more specific issues are confronted in attempting to implement the vision.