The Role of Governors in Catholic Education—A Neglected Constituency?

2018 ◽  
pp. 139-152
Author(s):  
Christopher Storr
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education

scholarly journals Transcending the Technocratic Mentality through the Humanities

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 676
Author(s):  
John Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Valuable Role

Catholic education has a long tradition of engagement with the liberal arts and especially the humanities. The place of the humanities today in the curriculum is under threat for several reasons, one being the predominance of the technocratic mentality. This paper revisits (in three steps) the contested issue of the role of the humanities in education. First, I review arguments about the role of the humanities within education. Second, some of the defects of the technocratic mentality are pointed out. Third, a Christian lens for viewing the humanities is deployed. Here I propose that the humanities play a valuable role in nurturing the imagination, thereby contributing both to a capacity to transcend the technocratic outlook and to the development of the holistic and humanising education that is central to a Catholic worldview.

Looking Backwards, Looking Forwards

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-204
Author(s):  
Tom O’Donoghue ◽  
Judith Harford
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Catholic Education ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
National Standards ◽  
School Level ◽  
Irish Society ◽  
Secondary School Level ◽  
The Church

A pluralist, outward-looking approach to Catholic education in Ireland now characterizes some of the latest changes at the level of governance and curriculum. Regarding piety, the first of the two main themes addressed throughout this book, change is also evident. In particular, the manner in which it is promoted and practised in the Catholic secondary schools now is more benignant, personal, ecumenical, and inclusive of those of other faiths than it was in the past. Regarding the second theme considered throughout, namely, the role of the Church historically in favouring at secondary school level those privileged in Irish society socially and economically, the situation is that while expansion of education provision has raised national standards of education, it has not led to the kind of reduction in relative social class inequalities that many believed it could or would. Thus, while so much has changed in relation to second-level schooling in the country from the end of the period 1922–1967 and the move away from the theocratic State, the Church in Ireland still continues to be enmeshed in social reproduction through the position it continues to hold within the nation’s secondary school sector.

scholarly journals Lay Catholic Support for Exiled Polish Intellectuals in Britain, 1942–1962

2017 ◽  
Vol 135 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Bush
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Vatican Ii ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Second Vatican Council ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Vatican Council ◽  
Subordinate Role

This article examines the hitherto unexplored role of lay Catholics in the tertiary education of Polish exiles in Britain, from the early 1940s to the beginning of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. It will examine the work of the Newman Association, a predominantly lay Catholic graduate society, as a case study to reveal how lay activism towards European exiles was influenced by a range of social, theological and political factors. It will highlight the ways in which support for Polish Catholic education could be manifested, including the establishment of a cultural hub in London, a scholarship programme to assist Polish students in British and Irish universities, and the development of cultural links with individuals and organisations within Poland. Ultimately, this article demonstrates the growing confidence of educated lay Catholics in breaking out of their historically subordinate role within the English Catholic Church in the years prior to Vatican II.

Defending Catholic Education: Secular Front Organizations during the Second Republic of Spain, 1931–1936

2013 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 848-876
Author(s):  
Kathy Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Religious Schools ◽  
Religious Orders ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
Religious Question ◽  
The Church

“The religious question” regarding the role of the Catholic Church in Spanish society shaped the often contentious relationship between the Church and state. This relationship entered a new chapter with the coming of the Second Republic and the passage of the 1931 constitution. Among the legislation aimed at implementing the articles of the constitution was the 1933 Law of Confessions and Congregations that outlawed schools run by religious orders. Despite this law, most religious schools remained open. Using three schools of the Sisters of the Company of Mary in the cities of Tudela, Valladolid, and Tarragona, this article shows how orders adapted under the new government. One of the Church's primary tactics was to establish front organizations directed by the laity that permitted the religious orders to circumvent the law in order to maintain their schools.

scholarly journals FILOSOFI PENDIDIKAN KATOLIK DALAM PERSPEKTIF FILSAFAT ARISTOTELIAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 3-18
Author(s):  
Agustinus Wisnu Dewantara
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Education ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Education ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

The progress of human civilization today is inseparable from the role of science. The dynamics of the pattern of our daily lives from time to time it runs in line with the dynamics of the development of science. The development of science and human civilization running together since from classical times, the middle ages, modern times, and so on. Novelty found in a period becomes an essential ingredient for other discoveries in the next period. One thing that is difficult to argue is that almost all sides of human life today has been entered by the various effects of the development of science and technology, ranging from economic, political, social and cultural, communication, education, health, and so on. All this progress is the fruit of the development of science that never recede from human studies. This paper on the one hand want to observe the philosophical basis for the world of Catholic education, and on the other hand, this article seeks to contribute a little reflection, especially for teachers of religious education in STKIP Widya Yuwana and Catholic families today. There wilderness philosophy that is so tempting to dive, but the limitations of time and space makes this paper should choose to focus. Perspective selected is Aristotelian philosophy.

Education in the Reformation

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Methuen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Catholic Education ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Jesuit Education ◽  
Human Reason ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
The Reformation

What did Protestants need to know, and how were they given access to this knowledge? This chapter explores the spread of university and school education in Protestant areas during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, considering schools, their place in church orders, their curricula and their importance as models of good civic and godly order. Despite Luther’s pessimistic view of human reason, the article highlights the role of Protestant education in inspiring new approaches to the natural world: Melanchthon, amongst others, saw study of the natural world as leading the observer to God. The rise of Jesuit education indicates that early modern Catholic education was being restructured according to similar principles. Across Western Europe, education was intended to support the divinely imposed civic order, and to train young people to be good citizens who would contribute to a “godly society”.

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