Religious Education from a Critical Realist Perspective

Johnny C. Go is Director of the Science and Art of Learning and Teaching (SALT) Institute at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines, concurrently serving as the Education Secretary for the Jesuit secondary and pre-secondary schools in Asia Pacific. After serving as the President of Xavier School from 2001 to 2013, he completed his doctorates in education in 2016 at the UCL Institute of Education, University of London, and the Singapore National Institute of Education at the Nanyang Technological University. He also teaches education and philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University and the University of the Philippines.

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

1. Critical Thinking in Catholic Religious Education

2. Critical Realism and Catholic Christianity

3. A Critical Realist Account of Critical Thinking

4. An Empirical Investigation of Teacher Epistemologies

5. A Case for a Critical Realist Catholic Religious Epistemology

6. Catholic Religious Critical Thinking as the Exercise of Sensus Fidei

Conclusion

Appendix

Works Cited

Index