Editors:
- Fills the need for rigorous analysis of developments in faith-based learning, teaching and leadership
- Timely examination of faith-based education in a range of countries and globally
- Explores developments, issues and challenges facing schools from a range of religious and faith traditions in culturally rich and diverse communities
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (41 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Educational, Historical, Social and Cultural Context of Faith-Based Schooling
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Front Matter
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Conceptions: Nature, Aims and Values of Education in Faith-Based Schools
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Front Matter
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About this book
The International Handbook on Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith Based Schools is international in scope. It is addressed to policy makers, academics, education professionals and members of the wider community. The book is divided into three sections.
(1) The Educational, Historical, Social and Cultural Context, which aims to:
- Identify the educational, historical, social and cultural bases and contexts for the development of learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools across a range of international settings;
- Consider the current trends, issues and controversies facing the provision and nature of education in faith-based schools;
- Examine the challenges faced by faith-based schools and their role and responses to current debates concerning science and religion in society and its institutions.
(2) The Nature, Aims and Values of Education in Faith-based Schools, which aims to:
- Identify and explore the distinctive philosophies, characteristics and guiding principles, values, concepts and concerns underpinning learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools;
- Identify and explore ways in which such distinctive philosophies of education challenge and expand different norms and conventions in their surrounding societies and cultures;
- Examine and explore some of the ways in which different conceptions within and among different religious and faith traditions guide practices in learning, teaching and leadership in various ways.
(3) Current Practice and Future Possibilities, which aims to:
- Provide evidence of current educational practices that might help to inform and shape innovative and successful policies, initiatives and strategies for the development of quality learning, teaching and leadership in faith-based schools;
- Examine the ways in which theprofessional learning of teachers and educational leaders in faith- based settings might be articulated and developed;
- Consider the ways in which coherence and alignment might be achieved between key national priorities in education and the identity, beliefs, and the commitments of faith-based schools;
- Examine what international experience shows about the place of faith-based schools in culturally rich and diverse communities and the implications of faith-based schooling for societies of the future.
Reviews
From the book reviews:
“Every dimension of this handbook speaks to its breadth and depth. At 670 pages, it is truly encyclopedic. … The editors are clear about their wish to conduct a rigorous analysis of historical developments in faith-based education, to cast it as a work in progress, and to explore what the future may hold. Without a doubt, they have accomplished this goal. … researchers and libraries should purchase International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools.” (Ken Badley, Journal of Education and Christian Belief, Vol. 18 (2), 2014)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
Judith D. Chapman, Sue McNamara
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Institute of Education, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Michael J. Reiss
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Faculty of Education, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa
Yusef Waghid
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Handbook of Learning, Teaching and Leading in Faith-Based Schools
Editors: Judith D. Chapman, Sue McNamara, Michael J. Reiss, Yusef Waghid
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8972-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8971-4Published: 28 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0623-8Published: 02 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8972-1Published: 10 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 722
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Education, International and Comparative Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Learning & Instruction