Professional Reading 1 Stirring the Soul of Catholic Education - Formation for Mission by Vaughan

The first article on ECSI form the 2017 publication Stirring the Soul  of Catholic Education - Formation for Mission by Vaughan, gave yet again another way of describing the context of the ECSI surveys and descriptions. I liked the descriptions of the monologue to the colourless school using easy to relate to images:Air raid shelter, Oasis, Action centre, meeting place. The idea that our Catholic schools can serve to be oasis' of  knowledge, nourishment, healing, wisdom and a place to inspire the continuation of the journey with clarity in directon and renewed energy is a powerful one. After some investigation of the language used I also found the concept of Hermeneutic communicative pedagogy interesting. I feel in a way that this is something we do already.I found the graphics below helped me to interpret what was said further.

At the end of the chapter  Vaughan quotes Pope Francis who confrms this idea of interpretation and inferring. It is a beautiful quote worth reading again:
'Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going , walking , doing, searching, seeing ... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God. '