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""Children, Catholicism and Religious Education"" gives an overview and critical analysis of a Catholic approach to religious education at the primary level. The themes and topics examined in the book include: the spirituality of the child; the language of religious education; the history of primary religious education in Ireland; the challenge of teaching in a religiously diverse context; the purposes and processes of Christian religious education; a Catholic vision of education; and gender and religious education. The book provides a valuable resource for students at undergraduate or postgraduate level as well as those with a general interest in the area of religious education. 'This book will go a long way toward helping all those concerned to do well what needs to be done by way of primary education in faith...May it set a new fire to Christian Religious Education in postmodern Ireland.' - Thomas Groome. Formerly a primary school teacher, Anne Hession now lectures in Religious Education at St Patrick's College, Dublin. Dr Patricia Kieran is a lecturer in Religious Education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.

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Patricia Kieran is a British Foreign and Commonwealth Chevening Scholar who teaches religious education at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. She is a member of the Mid-West Interfaith Network and is Director of the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies (IICS). She has written a number of books, most recently co-authoring The Enquiring Classroom Handbook (2019), and is involved in a number of research projects on intercultural education and religions and beliefs in changing times (RBCT).

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