Crossways Content articulated across 6 strands:
This is an integrated strand that focuses on ‘deep skills’ and wisdom that RE students develop as learners alongside their growth in knowledge and understanding that is mapped across the knowledge strands.
It emphasises the capabilities and dispositions that support students’ spiritual awareness and religious identity, their participation in the dialogue with the Catholic Tradition and other religious worldviews, their seeking of truth and interpretation of ideas and experience, and their integration and transformation of learning that they apply with growing wisdom in their lives.
That is, this strand makes visible in the curriculum the capabilities and dispositions which are alluded to in Crossway’s Purpose of Classroom RE.
The Wisdom strand is organised into 4 sub-strands and each sub-strand has 4 elements (16 elements altogether). The elements are expressed developmentally through articulations which in 4 - year bands (early years, primary years, middle years and senior years)
There are 16 expressions of skills and dispositions in the Wisdom strand; these are called elements. There are four elements in each Wisdom sub-strand.
The skills and dispositions of the Wisdom strand are developmentally expressed as ‘Band Articulations’. These are presented for each element in 4-year bands (early years, primary years, middle years and senior years
The purpose of the Wisdom strand’s Band Articulations is:
Each knowledge strand is organised into 2-year level stages (Years P-R, Years 1-2, Years 3-4, Years 5-6, Years 7-8, Years 9-10 and Years 11-12).
The knowledge content is conveyed as ‘Enduring Understandings’ in each 2-year level stage. These are
Every school year students will be provided with opportunities to explore and develop deep knowledge of approximately 12 Enduring Understandings which are supported by ‘doctrinal and content elaborations’.
An Enduring Understanding:
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These are statements which Crossways provides to answer the question:
What specific doctrine and other content is important for a learner to know and understand in order to engage deeply in the Enduring Understanding?
*While the list is not everything that the Tradition has to say, it is a carefully
constructed collection that has undergone theological review. There could be
other elaborations from other parts of the curriculum that can supplement the list.
Schools should use their professional and theological knowledge to contextualise
the curriculum content.
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