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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.

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.

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.