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Introduction
to Self-Survey Instrument for the Process of Certification
- Recognition of the Catechetical Centers
Recognition
is a voluntary
process through
which a diocesan catechetical center [DCC] / religious-congregation
catechetical centers [RCC] / religious education
department [RED] is able to measure the
quality of its services and performance against
nationally recognized standards set up by ECCCE.
The Recognition process involves self-assessment
by the DCC/RCC/RED,
as well as a thorough review by the ECCCE’s
evaluators.
The
Recognition certificate is a symbol that the
DCC/RCC/RED and ECCCE are committed
to providing high-quality service in
forming catechists for the Church and that the
DCC/RCC/RED has demonstrated its commitment by
measuring up to the ECCCE’s standards, while
ECCCE coordinates and lends assistance.
It
is an assurance to
ECCCE and the Diocese by the volunteering Catechetical Center to
be open to change and improvements so that their
catechists-students may understand and own the
concept of catechesis proposed by the Church today
and strive to become “teachers, educators
and witnesses of faith (GDC 237).
It
is a collaborative
effort between
ECCCE and the Catechetical Center to ascertain
that an up-to-date catechetical formation
is offered to the catechists-students that will
help them “provide a full and complete catechesis,” a
catechesis that links “the dimension of truth
and meaning of faith, orthodoxy and orthopraxis,
ecclesial and social meaning (GDC 237).
It
is a tool
or instrument that
ECCCE uses to be of service to the diocesan catechetical
office and the Catechetical Center in:
- becoming
aware of the characteristics of catechists and
their formation today (GDC 279);
- promoting
an adequate formation of catechists, both in
relation to basic training and continuing formation
(GDC 269, 233; 282);
- helping
the catechists-students become protagonists of
their own learning by being creative in formation
(GDC 245) and giving their formative experience
a participative and collaborative quality;
- mapping
the path to realize the various shifts that today’s
catechetical formation has to undergo to prepare
the catechists to carry out catechetical activities
in the context of new evangelization (GDC 276).
Paradigm
shifts
1.
Catechesis pre-occupied with teaching to catechesis
that is evangelizing and at the service
of Christian initiation (GDC 65-68)
2.
Catechesis of truths of faith to catechesis
of meaning (GDC 116-117)
3.
Catechesis as transmission of knowledge of
to catechesis as education of internalized attitudes of
faith (GDC 85-86)
4.
Catechesis of simple assimilation to catechesis
of creativity and co-responsibility (GDC 157)
5.
Catechesis as preparation for the sacraments to
a catechesis as education in the faith (GDC
84)
6.
From a dominance of school house catechesis to
an appreciation of Family Catechesis as well
as whole community catechesis in Basic ecclesial
communities
7. Configuring
formation to trans-formation, thus preparing
the catechists-students to move from a conservation
catechesis that perpetuates the existing ecclesial
situation to a catechesis that transforms,
that promotes a Church of communion and service.
Click
here for the Self-Survey Instrument for the Process
of Certification-Recognition of the Catechetical
Centers
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