There are many challenges facing the Catholic Church in Australia during the 21st century. The decline in religious vocations, falling mass attendance, married clergy, female ordination and the role of the laity are all issues contributing to the challenges of the Australian Catholic Church.…
Challenges and Rewards for the Reflective Practitioner . The “Teaching Stories” shared in Chapter 2 reveal the demands of the teaching profession and the need for reflection. Respond to the following questions:…
I have chosen to present my reflective report using Driscoll’s model (2007) of reflection because it is a developmental model that includes all the core skills of reflection: description, self-awareness, critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis; it consists in three stages in reflecting on one’s practice: ‘what?’ ‘so what?’ ‘now what?’. These trigger questions give a broad and substantial reflective process by challenging a more in depth examination, resulting in an action plan for the future (Bulman & Schutz,…
The Australian Catholic Church took a dramatic change during the second half of the twentieth century (1950-200) due to the migrants who came to Australia from many different countries around the world. After world war 2, due to Australia creating a large-scale immigration program, set out by Arthur Cardwel who was Australia's first federal minister. The coastal areas of Australia such as Darwin, had been bombed during the war there was a fear that the isolated Australian nation would be bombed again.…
“We live in a postmodern world in the sense that no single religion, system or ideology has any convincing claim to be the one voice of truth. We are yet to grasp the full reality that Australia is a pluralistic, multicultural, multi-religious society in which among people of different traditions and with indigenous people is a requirement of social cohesion. In a global world our national identities in no way preclude our responsibilities for the well-being of all humanity and the one earth we share.” – Dr Gerard Hall SM…
* Christianity had a significant impact on education and public morality in Australia whin the years of 1788-1900. In relation to public morality, I discuss the significance that the Christian church had on Australian society in the 1800's by the establishing of the Temperance movement as well as several other actions involving education.…
What is reflection? Reflection is defined by Wilkinson (1996) as an active process whereby the professional gains an understanding of how historical, social, cultural, cognitive and personal experiences have contributed to professional knowledge and practice.…
With that being said the only hope to bring order and structure to a group of people that are not willing to accept and understand different religions and cultural views is to create rules and regulations set in place as a law to respect all cultural groups. One author that agreed with this order is Gary D Bouma, in the article "The Emergence of Religious Plurality in Australia: a Multicultural Society." within this article Bouma discussed how one of the main reason how Australia is so successful with its “religious plurality” is because the country incorporated “state policies” which are laws set in place within the state to guarantee order and respect among all religious and cultural groups. Because if there was no law and rules and…
Being able to make mistakes learn from it and grow and being human means have the capacity to love, to forgive, to accept, to change. It means that it is ok to be scared, and worried, and overwhelmed, and hurt and it is ok to be happy, and excited, and content, and joyous. Feel both pain and pleasure. belive, dream, wonder and pray. Being human is a gift, it is freedom and it is pure and it is real and precious and of course learning to accept other people and yourself and respect others and yourself.Being a human means the highest order of intelligence amongst all known living beings and therefore it implies the highest order of responsibility towards all the living beings, of course including all fellow humans.…
The Australian Catholic Church has change by a large margin in the 21st century and has had many challenges arising. The decline in religious vocations, falling mass attendance, married clergy, female ordination and the role of the laity are all issues contributing to the challenges of the Australian Catholic Church. Several of today's Catholics differ, often passionately, about the qualities of the liturgical reforms as well as the reasons for the steep reject in Australian Mass attendances. Ordinary mass attendances have gone down by 50-60 percent in the 1960s to just about 15 percent in 2001.…
Reflective practice is used so that the student can make the connection between the theory and the practical. Reflections are used to make a starting point for our learning. By thinking about a specific situation using the reflective process, we can begin to understand them differently and take action as required (Jasper, M. 2003).…
Siviter (2004) defines reflection as gaining self-confidence, identifying when to improve, learning from good or bad mistakes and behaviour, being self-aware and improving the future by learning the past.…
Ecumenism is the movement toward Christian harmony worldwide. The ecumenical movement seeks unity in diversity and it confronts the difficulties of the modern multicultural world. With reference to the statement, “Churches should act together in all matters,” it addresses the purpose of the ecumenical movements in Australia, to allow Christian churches of different beliefs to come together to promote Christianity and discuss relevant issues. Two councils which sustain and uphold these values are the national council of churches and the NSW Ecumenical Council. The formation of the uniting church in Australia in 1977 and the emergence of the National Council of churches in Australia in 1994 have been the most significant developments towards…
Grushka, K., Hinde-McLeod, J. and Reynolds, R. (2005) Reflecting upon reflection: theory and practice in…
Reflective practice, in this context, is not about just looking at myself in a mirror and accepting what I see blindly, without any question or evaluation. Rather, it is about looking at what I have learned and how I can utilise that learning in my teaching practice.…