A Teaching Handbook for Wiccans and Pagans

A Teaching Handbook for Wiccans and Pagans
Author: Thea Sabin
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738730017

As the Pagan and Wiccan communities grow, so does the need for teachers, mentors, and role models. For those who want to share their knowledge, teaching can be a very empowering and spiritual experience. But practicing the Craft and teaching it are two very different things. In this timely guide, popular Wiccan author and teacher Thea Sabin presents clear techniques for creating a curriculum, including sample syllabi. She also provides instruction and guidance on crucial aspects of becoming an effective and inspiring teacher of Wicca and Paganism. Develop teaching methods for adult learners Manage group dynamics Give great presentations Find and screen students Set up online classes Cultivate patience and humility You will also find interviews and advice from several respected Pagan teachers, such as Patrick McCollum, Holli Emore of Cherry Hill Seminary, Christopher Penczak, and T. Thorn Coyle.

Religion in Multicultural Education

Religion in Multicultural Education
Author: Farideh Salili
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1607527219

The National Association for Multicultural Education in Washington, D.C., listed a number of issues that the school curriculum should address with reference to multicultural education, including racism, sexism, classism, linguicism, ablism, ageism, heterosexism, and religious intolerance. It is noteworthy that of all these issues, religion is about the only one that throughout history people are willing to die for, although whether what is at issue is really religion or other things such as territory is another matter. It is also interesting that all the others have isms in their names but religious issues are characterized by intolerance. Perhaps we should try to understand this intolerance and look at what steps might help to alleviate it. However, while intolerance might seem a simple thing, understanding what is behind it and how it plays such a crucial role in religion requires what we refer to in the Introduction chapter as a multifaceted approach at multiple levels. It is not enough just to try to dispel stereotypes of followers of other religions, or to point out commonalities in world religions. We should, for example, try to understand and appreciate how adherents of other religions try to answer questions regarding their adaptation to the contemporary environment. It is through understanding how different religions coexist side by side at various levels that we truly come to learn about religion in multicultural education.

Religion in Secular Education

Religion in Secular Education
Author: Cathy Byrne
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2014-01-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004264345

Cathy Byrne presents the secular principle as a guiding compass for religion in government schools in plural democracies. Using in-depth case studies, historical and contextual research from Australia, and comparisons with other developed nations, Religion in Secular Education provides a comprehensive, at times confronting, analysis of the ideologies, policies, pedagogies, and practices for state-school religion. In the context of rising demands for students to develop intercultural competence and interreligious literacy, and alongside increasing Christian evangelism in the public arena, this book highlights risks and implications as education develops religious identity – in individual children and in nation states. Byrne proposes a best practice framework for nations attempting to navigate towards socially inclusive outcomes and critical thinking in religions education policy.

The Final Pagan Generation

The Final Pagan Generation
Author: Edward J. Watts
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0520379225

A compelling history of radical transformation in the fourth-century--when Christianity decimated the practices of traditional pagan religion in the Roman Empire. The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked pagan holy sites and temples. The emperors who issued these laws, the imperial officials charged with implementing them, and the Christian perpetrators of religious violence were almost exclusively young men whose attitudes and actions contrasted markedly with those of the earlier generation, who shared neither their juniors’ interest in creating sharply defined religious identities nor their propensity for violent conflict. Watts examines why the "final pagan generation"—born to the old ways and the old world in which it seemed to everyone that religious practices would continue as they had for the past two thousand years—proved both unable to anticipate the changes that imperially sponsored Christianity produced and unwilling to resist them. A compelling and provocative read, suitable for the general reader as well as students and scholars of the ancient world.

For the Civic Good

For the Civic Good
Author: Walter Feinberg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2014-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0472052071

A case for teaching classes on world religion and the Bible in public schools

Kindling Sparks

Kindling Sparks
Author: Jan Avende
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2021-07-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781300283133

Resources for religious education for pagans are few and far between, and Rev. Avende's program aims to fill this gap for elementary-aged children. The Kindling Sparks Religious Education Program is laid out in a week-by-week fashion, with each week focusing on a Key Topic that you'll work on for the week, but there are also regular activities that form the base routine for the week. Descriptions of the holidays, rituals, and projects fill the book, helping guide you and your children through the wheel of the year. Topics range from learning about aspects that are important to our worship, to the many ways we pray, to ways that pagans navigate the modern world. With a structured weekly routine, young pagans can work with their families towards developing a personal practice, reverence for the earth and each other, and learning about myths and spirits that are important to their family.

Faith and Learning on the Edge

Faith and Learning on the Edge
Author: David Claerbaut
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780310253174

Beginning with an autobiographical journey through his disappointing experiences with faith and learning, both in his student and professorial career in Christian colleges, David Claerbaut addresses the issues of faith and learning in higher education.