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Confident Student to Confident RE Teacher: A Perspective from Scotland

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The document, Educating Today and Tomorrow: A Renewing Passion (Congregation for Catholic Education, 2014) highlights the importance of supporting ‘Catholic Teachers’ ‘lifelong learning’. It stresses that unless Catholic teachers are subjected to ‘rigour and depth’ in their learning then their teaching would be considered as ‘not credible, unreliable and, therefore, unnecessary’.

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  1. University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

    Roisín Coll & Stephen Reilly

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  1. Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University, Fitzroy, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Michael T. Buchanan

  2. Faculty of Education/Faculty of Theology, University of Malta, Msida, Malta

    Adrian-Mario Gellel

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Coll, R., Reilly, S. (2019). Confident Student to Confident RE Teacher: A Perspective from Scotland. In: Buchanan, M., Gellel, AM. (eds) Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6127-2_13

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