Willingly to School

Into the Classroom is a series of eleven new books designed for second-level teachers beginning the new Leaving Certificate Religious Education syllabus. Each of the books covers all the content in the relevant syllabus section. With their accessible and engaging commentary, they will also be of great interest to third-level students, educators and a general readership. Willingly to School aims to help religion teachers consider how the new RE syllabus from the Department of Education and Science will affect their work. In the spirit of the guidelines published by the Bishops, it explores how teaching the state syllabus for examination can help (in an indirect way) the faith formation of Catholic pupils in second-level schools. It draws upon Devitts earlier analysis of faith education in Immortal Diamond, and shows how a careful teaching of the new syllabus can foster the eight dimensions of faith. This is the introductory volume to the series Into the Classroom, which will provide detailed commentaries for religion teachers on each of the individual sections of the proposed Leaving Certificate RE syllabus. ABOUT THE EDITORS Rev. Dr. Eoin Cassidy is Registrar and Head of the Philosophy Department at the Mater Dei Institute, a college of Dublin City University. He is a member of the Irish Commission for Justice and Social Affairs ICJSAs role is to support the Irish Bishops Conference in promoting the social teaching of the Catholic Church and advise on issues of social concern. Patrick M. Devitt, Senior Lecturer in Religious Education at Mater Dei Institute.