Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts

Tuesday 2 August 2016

Maleizen convent Sint-Ignatius school under watchful eyes



One month before schools start we wonder what is going to happen to the very conservative Catholic school in Overijse.

Located in the Maleizen convent Sint-Ignatius was officially recognised by the government in November 2015. Because it had fewer than 83 students the shcool did not receive subsidies.

The school has been the cause of some concern in the region, however, because it bases its religion lessons on the Mechelse Catechism, which was published for the last time in 1954. Flanders’ Catholic education network and the archdiocese of Mechelen and Brussels – the most senior of Belgium’s Catholic hierarchy – have now spoken out against the school’s curriculum, saying that it is dangerously outdated.

The founders of Sint-Ignatius, on the other hand, have publicly denounced regular Catholic schools because they allow “atheists and Muslims to teach” and their teachers “encourage the use of contraception”.

Crevits had arranged a second visit by education inspectors to Sint-Ignatius, and also asked the education department’s Management Commission to determine whether the school’s criticism of the Catholic education network constitutes an “attack”. A government circular explicitly forbids school managements to attack other education providers.

Thursday 21 March 2013

New Preaching Ideas website

March not only saw the new tumblr website of the Christadelphians > Tumblr Christadelphians
Preaching Ideas, by Luke Bamford of the Peterborough Ecclesia, United Kingdom is also now available on a renewed site >  Preaching Ideas

The old website www.preachingideas.org.uk will shortly be taken down and the new website
www.preachingideas.co.uk will take over on a commercial platform called Dendrite. Dendrite is designed for people involved in teaching and learning and allows them to share learning and teaching materials in their own private communities or with global communities.It delivers learners, teachers, leaders and parents’  outstanding learning and development solutions from around the world.
Dendrite can be brought to you by The Learning Partnership.com, an organisation dedicated to improving the birth to nineteen learning journey, the platform is designed to optimise this learning journey.

The Christadelphian ALS have set up, fund and administer a private community that only registered Christadelphian's can access, add and share preaching material and ideas. Once registered, users can if they so desire sign up to other communities and access the many different resources available for learning and teaching, these other communities are non Christadelphian and chargers may apply to some of the premium communities.

Material and ideas from the old site will not be transferred from the old site to the new site on which new material will be set as it comes along.

While the CALS mandate is to support and facilitate preaching in the UK, they are happy for
Christadelphian's around the world to register and use the site.

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Thursday 7 February 2013

Music and young people in Christadelphia


According to Andrew De Witt

Do we need to run the kind of music workshops aimed at young musicians who would prefer to play or listen to music not normally found in the Christadelphian cultural milieu?

The use of music instruments may depend on how conservative or progressive an ecclesia might be.

"We need to protect our young people from the damage so easily done by a Christadelphian community which sometimes is more intent on preserving a mythical ‘golden age’ that is said to have existed ‘in the good old days’. Some may argue that there are some forms of western art music which are ‘special’ and ‘sacred’. Maybe not, maybe so. But in making such a rash statement they are dismissing much of the world’s vast musical output, and the heartfelt and honest thoughts and prayers of believers whose musical lexicon and soundscapes may not coincide with their own."
English: Behind the Christadelphian Hall
English: Behind the Christadelphian Hall (Photo credit: Wikipedia)


Read about it in:

A small rant…music, young people and Christadelphia

 

 


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Saturday 8 December 2012

Handicapped youngsters and Helpful computers

P2P made it possible that preaching could reach handicapped people and that they got a tool with which they can grow and feel more free.

P2P got some desktops  which could be put together to make 6 good working PC's.
They installed some maths games, English worksheets and Bible software on the computers for the children to work with and improve their education while playing games on the computer.

Read more about it:

Computer Distribution