Teaching methods for Catholic religious education in compulsory schooling, including students with handicaps
Anyone who works in the rehabilitation of disabled children — not merely with professional skill, but with love, with the capacity to wait, with patience and hope — often arrives at surprising and unexpected results.
For years, a team of educators from "La Nostra Famiglia" lived this experience. Now they present, with simplicity yet full awareness, the fruit of their work: a guide titled "And Life Will Burst Forth" — teaching methods for Catholic religious education in compulsory schooling, including students with handicaps, along with five active workbooks, "Pages of Life," published by LDC, Turin.
The "Pages of Life" material offers a series of structured, interconnected teaching activities designed to encourage participation, engagement, and active learning. They help students absorb content and values while allowing teachers to assess progress along the way.
The guide itself has a unified, progressive structure: the content unfolds without concern for annual divisions or schedules. The five active workbooks, by contrast, break the material into sections (roughly 15 objectives per year), taking into account the child's developmental stage, the school calendar, and the liturgical year.
In short: "And Life Will Burst Forth" is a valuable and practical resource — not only for teachers of disabled children, but for anyone who wants to bring concreteness, simplicity, and lived experience into their teaching.