The Contemporary Catholic School: Context, Identity And Diversity

by Terence McLaughlin (Editor), Joseph O'Keefe (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays by American and British authors discusses how the methods and issues of Catholic schooling are becoming of increasing interest to non-Catholic schools - due to the Catholic method of schooling being perceived as more humane.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750704717
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/29/1996
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Terence McLaughlin, Joseph O'Keefe, Joseph O'Keefe

Table of Contents

1. Setting the Scene: Current Realities and Historical Perspectives, Part 1. The Context of the Contemporary Catholic School, 2. Lessons from Catholic High Schools on Renewing our Educational Institutions, 3. National Crisis, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, 4. Markets, Education and Catholic Schools, 5. Leadership in Catholic Schools, 6. The Common Good, Pluralism and Catholic Education, Part 2. The Identity of the Catholic School, 7. What Makes a School Catholic?, 8. Catholic Education and Catholic Identity, 9. The Distinctiveness of Catholic Education, 10. Wholeness, Faith and the Distinctiveness of the Catholic School, 11. Recognition and Responsivity: Unlearning the Pedagogy of Estrangement for a Catholic Moral Education, Part 3. Social Justice, Diversity and the Catholic School, 12. No Margin, No Mission, 13. Equality, Race and Catholic Schools, 14. Who Do We Serve and What Do We Offer?: Race, Equality and Catholic Schools, 15. Catholic Schools and Other Faiths, 16. Catholic Schools in a World of Many Faiths: Church Teaching and Theological Perspectives, 17. Other Faiths in Catholic Schools: General Implications of a Case Study, Part 4. Catholic Schools: The Way Forward, 18. Renewing Teaching: Building Professional Communities of Hope and Inquiry, 19. Openness and Intellectual Challenge in Catholic Schools, 20. The Catholic School and Religious Education: Meeting a Variety of Needs, 21. Directions for Research in Catholic Education in the USA and the UK, Notes on Contributors, Index

Editorial Reviews

A collection of 21 essays directed toward the themes of context, identity, and diversity in Catholic education in the US and the UK revealing the shifting nature and concerns of the Catholic school. The contributors survey the seminal issues in private education in regards to markets, funding, leadership, the Catholic identity, the teaching of equality and social justice in diverse settings, and the intellectual direction of Catholic education in the 20th century. Some of the papers included in the collection were originally presented at the conference on The Contemporary Catholic School and the Common Good at St. Edmund's College, July, 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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