Catholic Religious Education in Scotland: Bridging the Gap Between Teacher Education and Curriculum Delivery

摘要: Catholic schools enjoy a unique position within the Scottish education system. While state maintains and employs those teaching them, Church has statutory jurisdiction over appointment of teachers, ensuring they are suitable in terms ‘belief character’. The also determines content Religious Education curriculum to be taught schools. In 2011 launched This Is Our Faith (Scottish Service, is our faith. Glasgow, 2011), dynamic, doctrinally sound comprehensive syllabus which arguably repositioned subject Schools demands new levels catechetical competence on part teacher.