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Spiritual, Moral and Religious Education is a key area for Teaching and Research in Australian Catholic University |
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Visiting Scholars and Researchers 1999 -- 2004
Professor
Gabriel Moran, New York University.
Professor David Steward and Professor Marge Steward,
Graduate Theological Union and University of California
Professor Herman Lombaerts,Catholic University
of Leuven, Belgium
Professor Brian Hill, Murdoch University, WA
Professor James Conroy, University of Glasgow, UK.
Professor Thomas Groome, Boston College USA
Dr Andrew McGrady, Mater Dei College, Dublin City
University, Ireland.
Professor Mary-Elizabeth Moore, Candler School of
Theology, Emory University, Atlanta USA
Dr Trevor Cooling, Stapleford Centre for Religious
Education, and University of Nottingham, UK
For links to lectures/presentations by these scholars at ACU click here
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Professor Gabriel Moran, from New York University. Gabriel Moran followed up earlier visits to conduct courses at ACU in Brisbane (with his wife Professor Maria Harris). In 2000 he conducted a unit on moral dimensions to education at McAuley campus in Brisbane. Some of his articles are posted for study on the Doctor of Education coursework website.
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Professor Marge Steward and Professor David Steward were visiting Research Scholars in the Cardinal Clancy Research Centre in the second semester 1999. They returned in 2001 and 2004. |
Professors Marge and
David Steward have had extensive experience in the planning and conduct
of research with children and families in areas related to clinical psychology
and religious education. While at ACU they have conducted a series of
research seminars in which they examined a range of issues that affect
the ways researchers gather information from children. In addition to
their presentations they spent time with ACU staff and interested visitors
looking into issues and implications that had a bearing on their research,
study and professional work. They contributed significantly to the School
of Religious Education's research supervision training and offered advice
as to research development. This contribution is posted in the Spiritual
Moral and Religious Education Flagship Report
******* David Steward: ******
David S. Steward is Emeritus Professor of Religious Education at Pacific
School of Religion and The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.
His research can be gathered in two clusters: the design of professional
schooling and the observation and coding of children's experience. Traditional
professional schooling in the US is shaped by guilds and the mastery of
prescribed knowledge. Efforts at reform have sought to begin schooling
with life experience (of students and the contexts in which they are expected
to work). The scope of thinking required to do this is usually interdisciplinary.
Learning occurs as language is carefully applied to problems which are
complex and often "insoluble." Human imagination is required
to take many personal and social problems to resolution. Professional
practice requires both a grounded, disciplined mind, and the willingness
to engage a world which does not lend itself to closure.
******* Marge Steward
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Margaret S. Steward is Emeritus Professor of Psychology in the Department
of Psychiatry and a past Associate Dean of the School of Medicine at the
University of California, Davis. She holds a diplomate in clinical psychology
from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Her research, teaching,
and clinical interests focus on children and families at risk as a result
of prematurity, illness, divorce, and/or abuse. As an academic administrator,
she focused on recruitment, hiring, and career development of junior faculty.
She has served as a consultant and conducted workshops on children's cognitive,
linguistic and emotional development in the United States and Australia
for staff from health, mental health, social welfare, and law enforcement
agencies and from the judiciary. For the past decade she has been a reviewer
for the Australian
Research Council.
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Professor Herman
Lombaerts,Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium He presented seminars at campuses of ACU on his hermeneutic-communicative model of religious education. Some of his materials are for study on the Doctor of Education coursework website. Also on the page of materials by visiting scholars |
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Brian Hill, Murdoch University, WA Professor Hill, accompanied by his wife Margaret, spent three months as a visiting research professor at the Strathfield campus. During this period he spent much time with research students and with the |
development of the
Meaning, Identity and Education research project.
In addition, he worked on a manuscript on teaching religion that will
be published in 2004 by Open Book.
Professor Hill's lecture is available
on the page of materials by visiting scholars.
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During this time,
spent mainly working on two books, Professor Conroy also gave considerable
help to doctoral research students, and advised on the Meaning, Identity
and Education Project.
One of his lectures at Strathfield is posted
on the page of materials by visiting scholars.
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Thomas Groome, Boston College USA Sponsored by the Catholic Education Office of Parramatta, and also by a national Catholic Principals' conference, Professor Groome visited Australia briefly for lectures and seminars. His lectures at Strathfield are posted on the page of materials by visiting scholars. |
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Andrew McGrady, Mater Dei College, Dublin City University, Ireland. Dr McGrady visited a number of campuses of ACU as well as Catholic Education Offices as part of his research study of Catholic schooling in Australia. His lectures at Strathfield are posted on the page of materials by visiting scholars. |
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Professor Mary-Elizabeth
Moore, Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta USA |
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Trevor Cooling, Stapleford Centre for Religious Education, and University
of Nottingham, UK On a visit to Australia, Dr Cooling lectured staff and postgraduate students on the question of commitment in Religious Education. His lecture at Strathfield is posted on the page of materials by visiting scholars. |
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