Diploma in Catholic Education

Course details

The programme is designed to:

• Provide students with an education and formation enabling them to become (or develop their capacity and competence) teachers, capable of contributing positively to the ethos of a Catholic school and nourishing themselves as reflective practitioners;
• Supply the school community with knowledgeable and professional teachers, able to sustain a school’s ethos, while having the flexibility to respond to the changing environment of the school system.
• Contribute to the on-going development of the vocation of a Catholic teacher and the Catholic school sector, by way of critically engaged and reflective practitioners.
• Therefore, the objectives of the Diploma in Catholic Education are to inspire a cohort of students to:
• A greater understanding of the theological foundation and history of Catholic Education.
• A more significant awareness of their role and responsibility as Catholic School teachers.
• A deeper sense of their own spirituality and how it is expressed through their day-to-day experience as teachers in Catholic schools.

Foundations of Catholic Education

• The course is designed to introduce students to important foundational aspects of Catholic education and to explore related contemporary concerns.

Forged in the Crucible: Spirituality of the Catholic Teacher

• This course aims to facilitate students in establishing connections between their experiences of spirituality and their role as educators in Catholic schools.

Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Theology

• This course aims to introduce students to the discipline of theology, focusing on the notions of experience, revelation and faith.

Learning from Jesus the Teacher

• This course aims to introduce students to the major developments in Catholic Biblical scholarship by studying how Jesus is presented as teacher by the authors of the four Gospels and the implications of this for Catholic education.