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The New and the Old is the latest edition to the acclaimed Mission and Education Series from Vaughan Publishing. In this book, authors Jim and Therese D'Orsa clarify the recontextualisation of faith in a time of deep change.What does the term 'recontextualisation' mean?Where did it come from?Why is it important?How do we recontextualise faith in a change of era?This exploration seeks to situate current work on recontextualisation within recent Catholic experience - both cross-cultural mission experience - and the experience of the entire Church worldwide in its implementation of the Second Vatican Council, which took place between 1962 and 1965.The New and the Old will demonstate the gift of recontextualised faith has the power to provide leaders of hope-filled school communities to be co-creators of a 'new humanism' enabling them to respond to the profound change of era they are all experiencing.

This Educator's Guide to Service Learning looks at one of the most-often misunderstood academic and professional pursuits within schools. Br Damien Price explores the potentially transforming power of Service Learning which occurs when it is closely linked to the culture and curriculum of the school community. Inside this guide, you will find a model of Service Learning with an invitation to reflect on the learning and psychological processes at play and meaning-making linked to the experiences students will have. There is also a range of best practice techniques for student reflection and engagement, including a series of critical analysis questions that will assist in understanding the experience. The Educator's Guide to Service Learning is a must-read for any educational practitioner considering engaging their school community in Service Learning.

This Educator's Guide to Immersion for Mission provides a unique insight into the multifaceted and complex experience of immersion. Theoretical and theological perspectives, personal experiences and practical examples offer a singular lens through which to view immersion in the context of mission, while at the same time presenting helpful suggestions, frameworks and direction for leaders involved in planning and facilitating immersion trips.The guide is intended for use by diocesan system leaders, religious institutes, public juridic persons, school leadership teams, mission leaders, social justice coordinators and all those involved in building and strengthening partnerships with rural, remote, indigenous and Majority World communities.It is anticipated the guide will provide a valuable resource for those wishing to undertake the process of leading others through an experience of personal encounter and cross-cultural engagement, with the ultimate aim of enlivening God's mission in the world today.

The Mission and Education series of exploratory studies aims to open up conversation about various elements of the educational process. This conversation explores how each contributes to the mission of Jesus within the context of the ministry of education in schools. Over the years, various authors have contributed to this conversation focusing on such areas as curriculum, formation, leadership, and charism. Every day teachers make decisions about how they intend 'to make a difference' for the students they teach, and so realise the hopes they had in becoming teachers. Most of these decisions are not made consciously, but 'on the run'. They are often dictated by the culture of the society, or the culture of the school or school system, in which teachers are employed.Together with integrity, competence, and an understanding heart, pedagogies remain central to the success of the project of Catholic educators who endeavour to implement for their students the transforming vision of Jesus. In this study, Jim and Therese D'Orsa seek to stimulate and resource the deep and focussed conversations needed for the creation and implementation of such pedagogies.

This Educator's Guide contains an invitation to renew vision and hope, and to enter deeply into the grand adventure of missional discipleship in today's world.

n this book Michael Green explores the challenges and opportunities that emerging contexts provide for old paradigms, and what needs to change.

If you are a principal, staff member, parent, parish leader or someone in the community who believes in the potential of Catholic education, this book seeks to explore the religious identity question that is so critical in our schools.

This book explains how, in a modern world where Catholicism reworks and reconstructs its methodology in the interests of pastoral care, evangelism, and Christian Education, religious education is moving forward successfully to meet the needs of Australian families

This fourth volume in the Mission and Education series provides backgrounds and introductions to a range of exceptional initiatives bringing the Gospel to life in Catholic Education.

This fifth volume in the Mission and Education series grapples with the question of how to frame a re-imagined understanding of formation for the Catholic educator and leader.

In this second volume of the Mission and Education series two Australian Catholic educators face squarely the issue of the Catholicity of the entire formal curriculum.

In this first volume of the Mission and Education series, Australian Catholic educators Jim and Therese D'Orsa invite and assist colleagues to become 'grassroots' theologians themselves.

This third volume of the Mission and Education Series is designed to provide leaders in today's Church with the capacity to confidently match the strategic and operational elements of their leadership with a deep and contemporary commitment to mission.

This book provides an explanation of electromagnetic scattering effects in the intergalactic medium that produce what have been misinterpreted as 'evolutionary' effects. It accounts for a variety of cosmological phenomena from spectroscopic redshifts to microwave background radiation. These have variously been attributed by the standard cosmological model to an origin in a 'big bang', 'dark matter', and mysterious 'vacuum energy'. This scattering model provides a viable stationary state alternative to the established view of the universe with predictions that more precisely match observation without ad hoc assumptions.