The Crossways RE Curriculum supports a pedagogy which:

  • Animates CESA’s Learning Statement
  • Enables the development of the CESA Key Capabilities
  • Foregrounds skills and dispositions named in the Crossways Wisdom Strand
  • Honours the Christian understanding of the human person.

The Crossways Religious Education Curriculum has been designed to support a diverse range of pedagogical approaches.

It is expected that RE is designed and taught with the same creativity and intellectual rigour as other curriculum areas, developing Enduring Understandings and skills and dispositions which support students in becoming leaders for the world that God desires.

The quality of students’ learning experiences in Religious Education is enhanced when:

  • learners are active participants who engage with head, heart and hands
  • students have agency in their learning through a co-constructed process
  • curiosity and wonder are fostered, and student questions are validated
  • skills and dispositions (Wisdom Strand) are embedded in the teaching and learning
  • the cultural and religious identity of the learners is integral to a dialogical culture of the classroom, allowing the stories of the learners to connect with a Catholic worldview.

Learning in a Catholic school is dynamic, transformative and hope- filled. The Crossways Curriculum provides one of the many ways God’s presence can be experienced in a Catholic school.

The above is an expression of Catholic pedagogy - because it is shaped by a Christian understanding of the human person and people are invited into a space to flourish and fulfill their potential; there are many pedagogical approaches that can support this.

“Catholic pedagogy draws from the best of contemporary pedagogical theory
and considers the issues from a Catholic perspective.”

Sharkey, P., 2015. Educator's Guide to Catholic identity. Garrett Publishing, p.29.