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Development of innovative research and resources to support adult faith education/accompaniment

The Centre for Religious Education and Catechesis is engaged in Phase III of An Action Research Project in Adult Faith Education in Canada: Towards Transforming Practice. Led by co-director and lead researcher, Dr. Carol Kuzmochka, focus groups of practitioners from across the country engage in action research designed to contribute to transforming practice in adult faith education/accompaniment that bridges the gap between faith and life by meeting people where they are and generating learning and growing spaces for meaning-making and agency as mature Christians. The project has three goals:

  • to generate innovative responses
  • to generate much-needed empirical data and potential future research questions
  • to generate resources for adult faith education and the formation of catechists to work with adults
Pictured here is the research team for Phase III of our "Where Faith and Life Meet, Action Research Project in Adult Faith Education/Accompaniment in Canada" from top left to bottom right:Murray Watson, Adult Faith Formation Animator, Simcoe Muskoka Catholic-District School Board, Barrie, On. Carol Kuzmochka, Co-director, CREC and lead researcher Charlene Peters, chair ACA and catechetical director, Diocese of Charlottetown (also a member of Focus Group for Phase I) Anne Walsh, chair ACCAF and program director, Redemptorists and Adult Faith Education Archdiocese of Saint John’s, Nfld Alessandra Santopadre, Program director, office of culture and ritual (devoted to newcomers) Archdiocese of Montreal Koreen Hrizai, chair, WCCRE and Coordinator, Office of Catechesis, Archdiocese of Saint Boniface Daryold Corbiere Winkler, pastor, Archdiocese of Ottawa, co-chair Archdiocesan Committee for Indigenous/Non-indigenous relations and Anishinaabe, Cree from Manitoulin Island Lorraine Ste-Marie, Co-director, CREC and Co-researcher Marilena Beradinelli, Director of Faith Formation, Saint Basil Parish, Toronto

Resources on the Symposium

The Symposium was based upon the research-based resources from Phases I and II of the CREC’s research project into Adult Faith Education in Canada:  Towards Transforming Practice.  These research-based resources can be found here:

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