What are the touchstones of Edmund Rice?
We aspire to be faithful to the following four touchstones: Liberating Education; Gospel Spirituality; Inclusive Community; Justice and Solidarity. The integration of the touchstones reflects our mission and helps inform the authentic development of the Edmund Rice charism within our community.
What did Edmund Rice do for education?
Edmund realised that education was essential to liberating young men from their circumstances. This led him to sell his business and begin to instruct poor boys living on the streets of Waterford. He provided food, clothing and education for 200 to 300 students.
What school did Edmund Rice go to?
the commercial academy
Edmund Rice was born into a farming family, under the shadow of the Penal laws, on June 1st 1762, at Westcourt, Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. He attended the commercial academy in Kilkenny for about two years after secretly receiving his elementary education at the local ‘hedge school’ in Callan.
How many Edmund Rice Schools are there in Australia?
Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) Waverley College is a member of the Edmund Rice Education Australia network of 48 schools, which support over 35,000 students in all states and territories of Australia.
What are the 4 Erea touchstones?
Liberating Education. We open hearts and minds, through quality teaching and learning experiences, so that through critical reflection and engagement each person is hope-filled and free to build a better world for all.
How many Erea schools are in Australia?
55 schools
Educational institutions As of 2021, EREA included 55 schools, 4,500 staff, and over 39,000 students. In addition, in 2016 EREA established the Flexible Schools Networks, a network of 22 educational institutions across Australia that provide inclusive and non-discriminating learning opportunities.
What impact did Edmund Rice have on society?
Edmund devoted his life and fortune to educating the poor and the marginalised, ensuring that those he helped developed the necessary life skills of confidence and compassion, with an understanding of how to effect changes in their own lives and those of others. Edmund started on his own.
What are the Edmund Rice values?
The core values of Edmund Rice College are Compassion, Dignity, Service, and Solidarity. These core values are embedded in the Touchstones of a Catholic Education in the Edmund Rice tradition.
What was Edmund Rice’s first school called?
The College opened as Christian Brothers College in January 1926 with 105 pupils (aged from seven to sixteen years) at the top of Crown Lane, Wollongong.
How many Edmund Rice schools are there?
96 schools
The Edmund Rice Schools Trust is the trustee of 96 schools, both primary and secondary, in the Republic of Ireland.
Is Erea part of the Catholic Church?
Edmund Rice Education Australia (EREA) is the network of schools, entities and offices offering a Catholic education in the tradition of Blessed Edmund Rice. Established by the Christian Brothers in 2007, EREA now has full responsibility for the schools operated by the Brothers at that time.
What is an Edmund Rice education?
All schools and educational entities in Australia in the Edmund Rice tradition are bound by a Charter of cultural characteristics which comprise of four key touchstones. Living these characteristics give Edmund Rice Education a special position in educating for liberation and possibility.
What is the Edmund Rice charter?
All schools and educational entities in the Edmund Rice tradition across Australia are unified by a Charter which comprises touchstones giving ideals authentically linked with the Charism of Blessed Edmund Rice and which underpin the ministry in the schools and educational endeavors in Church mission.
What are the four touchstones?
The Charter uses four Touchstones to describe the culture of a Catholic school which is striving for authenticity in the Edmund Rice tradition. These Touchstones give us ideals authentically linked with the Charism which underpins the ministry in our schools and educational endeavours.
What are the four touchstones of Catholic education?
THE TOUCHSTONES. As Catholic schools in the Edmund Rice tradition, we aspire to be faithful to these four touchstones: Liberating Education: We open hearts and minds, through quality teaching and learning experiences, so that through critical reflection and engagement each person is hope-filled and free to build a better world for all.