A Curriculum in Religion

<p>As early as 1924 when Edward A. Fitzpatrick came to Marquette University as a professor of education he began preparing to build an entirely new curriculum in elementary-level religious education based on the best pedagogical methods.  He and his collaborators many of whom were religious school sisters eventually formed the <em>Catechetical Institute of Marquette University</em>.  Together they collected the best available resources for both teacher and student and began laying out the grade school curriculum in its entirety.  Then over the course of the next 8 years they tested their ideas in the classroom and continued to improve them until they were ready to publish.</p><p>The final result of this monumental effort was the<em> Highway to Heaven Series</em> of religion textbooks and the accompanying <em>Religion in Life Curriculum Teacher Manuals</em>.  But along the way in 1931 they published the objectives and planned resources for each of the grades in this book <em>A Curriculum in Religion</em>.  These objectives along with an overview of the unified scope for all 8 grades are helpful to the teacher who wishes to implement the Religion in Life Curriculum in the classroom especially at the 6th grade level for which a Teacher's Manual was never published.</p>