Engaging the "Rebels With A Cause": Challenges in the Religious Education of Young People Today

• Main Author: Odulio, Edwin B
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
• Subjects: Church and Social Issues; Gen Z; Justice and Faith; “Mechanical Type” of Learning; Religious Education; Youth; Catholic Studies; Religion
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/16; http://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2431
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article talks about the challenges that religion educators face in teaching the current generation of young people — the Gen Z or Generation Z. Being born in the mid 1990s to mid-2000s, the Gen Zs comprise the population of students in the Catholic schools today. Recent studies on the character...