1st Edition

The Contemporary Catholic School Context, Identity And Diversity

Edited By Terence McLaughlin, Joseph O'Keefe Copyright 1996
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Biography

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