Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (1997) Strand FL: Family Life Education Christian education in the family, catechesis and religious instruction in schools are, each in its own way, closely interrelated with the service of Christian education of children, adolescents, and young people. (76) Family catechesis precedes… accompanies and enriches all forms of catechesis. (226) General Directory for Catechesis (1997) Catholic Family Life Education is a multi-disciplinary curriculum area, designed to promote the Christian formation of children and adolescents in authentic human values related to personhood. The role of the school should be that of assisting and completing the work of parents, furnishing children and adolescents with an evaluation of sexuality as value and task of the whole person, created male and female in the image of God. The bishops of Ontario have identified Family Life Education as a required curriculum strand comprising approximately twenty percent of the Religious Education curriculum at the secondary level, since both areas of study are concerned with the integration of Gospel values into the whole pattern of human life. Classroom instruction in Family Life Education provides opportunities for the holistic formation of students according to a Christian vision of personhood, relationship, and sexuality. This strand draws upon the disciplines of theology, life sciences, and the social sciences. Within these, moral theology, biology, and developmental psychology are especially significant. Students will study three areas in Family Life Education (Personhood, Relationships, and Sexuality), to support the direction given in the OCCB’s 1996 message to the Catholic education community, entitled “Family Life Education for Secondary Students.” Family Life Education therefore is a distinctive feature of Religious Education in Catholic secondary schools in its biological, medical, psychological, and moral aspects. It is the intention of Family Life Education to assist students in the development of understanding and personal attitudes toward the Christian vision of human relationships and sexuality as integral to the person, created in the image of a life-giving and loving God.1 For this reason, Family Life Education recognizes and affirms the primary and central role of the family in the formation of character, moral development, and attitudes toward sexuality. Adapted from a Family Life Education for Secondary Students: A Message to the Catholic Education Community, 1 publication of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, 1996, pp. 4-6.
Congregation for the Clergy, General Directory for Catechesis (1997) Strand FL: Family Life Education Christian education in the family, catechesis and religious instruction in schools are, each in its own way, closely interrelated with the service of Christian education of children, adolescents, and young people. (76) Family catechesis precedes… accompanies and enriches all forms of catechesis. (226) General Directory for Catechesis (1997) Catholic Family Life Education is a multi-disciplinary curriculum area, designed to promote the Christian formation of children and adolescents in authentic human values related to personhood. The role of the school should be that of assisting and completing the work of parents, furnishing children and adolescents with an evaluation of sexuality as value and task of the whole person, created male and female in the image of God. The bishops of Ontario have identified Family Life Education as a required curriculum strand comprising approximately twenty percent of the Religious Education curriculum at the secondary level, since both areas of study are concerned with the integration of Gospel values into the whole pattern of human life. Classroom instruction in Family Life Education provides opportunities for the holistic formation of students according to a Christian vision of personhood, relationship, and sexuality. This strand draws upon the disciplines of theology, life sciences, and the social sciences. Within these, moral theology, biology, and developmental psychology are especially significant. Students will study three areas in Family Life Education (Personhood, Relationships, and Sexuality), to support the direction given in the OCCB’s 1996 message to the Catholic education community, entitled “Family Life Education for Secondary Students.” Family Life Education therefore is a distinctive feature of Religious Education in Catholic secondary schools in its biological, medical, psychological, and moral aspects. It is the intention of Family Life Education to assist students in the development of understanding and personal attitudes toward the Christian vision of human relationships and sexuality as integral to the person, created in the image of a life-giving and loving God.1 For this reason, Family Life Education recognizes and affirms the primary and central role of the family in the formation of character, moral development, and attitudes toward sexuality. 1 Adapted from Family Life Education for Secondary Students: A Message to the Catholic Education Community, a publication of the Assembly of Catholic Bishops of Ontario, 1996, pp. 4-6.