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Gender diversity issues guide for schools

Rowena Orejana — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 02:33:18 +0000

The National Centre for Religious Studies has released a document that provides Catholic schools with guidance on how to navigate issues pertaining to gender diversity among young people today. Gender Complexity in Schools, which is endorsed by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, acknowledged that “gender dysphoria is real”. (According to the American Psychiatric Association website, gender dysphoria “involves a conflict between a person’s physical or assigned

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New RE curriculum guide available

Rowena Orejana — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 22:38:11 +0000

The National Centre for Religious Studies is in the process of preparing a new Religious Education Level 1-8 Curriculum that will hopefully be completed within the next five years. In the meantime, the NCRS has made available to Religious Education teachers in primary schools a new curriculum guide that will update and refresh ideas and

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Making Jesus relevant in a secular society

Rowena Orejana — Sun, 14 May 2017 20:30:34 +0000

Making Jesus relevant to the lives of young people given the complexity of New Zealand secular society is the main challenge of religious educators today, said National Centre for Religious Studies director Colin MacLeod. “Our RE teachers are doing great work but because many of our young people (in Catholic schools) come from families that

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