The 500+ pages of Graham Rossiter and Marisa Crawford’s book "Reasons for Living" are impressive. The book is both a practical reference book for everything to with teaching ‘meaning, identity and spirituality’ in the Australian context, and an overall rationale for teaching about religion etc across the schooling systems.

Its strength is the clear-eyed view it offers on Catholic education, which Graham and Marisa obviously know best. But the starting point of the book is what all young people are looking for, not just those that attend Catholic schools, so its spells out clearly what is possible in public schools under present conditions and how teachers might legitimately extend their teaching.

Those who know Graham Rossiter will know the clarity of his writing about RE, and this book brings together much of the extended research he has done over the years. I am hoping, however, that the huge range of this book does not signal that this is Graham’s last contribution to RE: he has plenty more to offer.

Publisher's summary: http://shop.acer.edu.au/acer-shop/product/0864316135 ( )