Overview
- Presents a range of perspectives on Catholic education in the British Isles in the opening decades of the twenty-first century
- Demonstrates the way in which the field of Catholic Education Studies has come of age as an established field of research and study
- Offers proposals and ideas about the future direction of Catholic education
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Field of Catholic Education Studies: Mapping Out the Terrain
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New Thinking About the Politics and Philosophy of Catholic Education
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New Thinking About Catholic School Leadership
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New Thinking About Religious Education in Catholic Schools
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Keywords
- philosophy of catholic education
- theory of catholic education
- theology of catholic education
- aims of catholic education
- catholic schools
- religious education
- catechesis
- research in catholic education
- future of catholic education
- confessional education and catholic schools
- faith schools
- parental rights and catholic education
- catholic school leadership
- catholic identity and catholic school
About this book
This book presents a range of perspectives on the current state of Catholic education in the opening decades of the twenty-first century. All of the chapters have their origin in an International Conference on Catholic Education, held at Heythrop College (University of London) in September 2016. The book brings together many leading scholars to present a survey of the latest research on Catholic education in areas such as the aims of Catholic education, Catholic schools and Catholic identity, leadership issues in Catholic schools and fresh thinking about the place of Religious Education (RE) in Catholic Education.
This book demonstrates how the field of Catholic Education Studies has firmly come of age. Rather than being a subfield of educational or theological discourse, it is now an established field of research and study. As such, the book invites readers to engage with much of the new thinking on Catholic education that has grown rapidly in recent years. It offers a broadrange of contemporary perspectives on research in Catholic Education and rich insights into current thinking about Catholic Education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Sean Whittle is a Visiting Research Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, and at St Mary’s University in Twickenham. He is also a Research Associate with the Centre for Research and Development in Catholic Education (CRDCE), with Professor Gerald Grace. Alongside these academic roles he works part-time as a secondary school RE teacher at Gumley House FCJ Catholic School in West London. He completed his doctoral studies at the Institute of Education—UCL, defending a thesis on the theory or philosophy of Catholic education. His book A Theory of Catholic Education (Bloomsbury 2014) presents a robust philosophy of Catholic education that draws heavily on insights from Karl Rahner. He controversially argues in support of a non-confessional theory of Catholic education. In December 2016 Routledge published Vatican II and New Thinking about Catholic Education, which is a collection of essays edited by Dr Whittle on the impact and legacy of Gravissimum Educationis. Inrecent years he has been collaborating with other academics working in the field of Catholic education in order to create the Network for Researchers in Catholic Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Researching Catholic Education
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Perspectives
Editors: Sean Whittle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7808-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7807-1Published: 05 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5676-6Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7808-8Published: 25 January 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 256
Topics: Religion and Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Educational Philosophy