Overview
- Presents 21 contributions from active researchers from Ireland and Britain reflecting on the current state of Catholic education
- Includes a wide range of chapters presenting fresh perspectives on the foundations, matters of identity and leadership in relation to Catholic schooling and education
- Offers new insights into the nature and scope of Religious Education in Catholic schools in Ireland and England
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The volume brings together a rich range of scholars into one place, so that these voices can be listened to as a whole. It includes contributions from leading scholars, blended with a plethora of other voices who are emerging to become the next generation of leading researchers in Catholic education. It also introduces a number of newer voices to the academic context. They present fresh perspectives and thinking about matters relating to Catholic education and each of them confidently stand alongside the other contributors. Moreover, these reflections on Catholic education are important fruits to have emerged from the collaboration made possible through the creation of the Network for Researchers in Catholic Education, which was established in 2016 under the auspices of Heythrop College, University of London.
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Keywords
- Philosophy of Catholic Education
- Theory of Catholic Education
- Theology of Catholic Education
- Aims of Catholic Education
- Aims of Catholic Schools
- Catholic Identity and the Catholic School
- Religious Education and Catechesis
- Catholic Schools and Catechesis
- Confessional Education and Catholic Schools
- Future of Catholic Education
- Catholic Education in Ireland
- Catholic Education in the UK
- Catholic School Leadership
- Research in Catholic Education
- Faith Schools
- Catholic Schools
- Catholic Education Studies
- New Voices in Catholic Education
- Female Voices in Catholic Education
Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Reflections on the Foundations of Catholic Education
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Reflections on Identity Issues Within Catholic Education
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Reflections on the Emerging Research About Catholic School Leadership
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Reflections on Emerging Research About Religious Education in Catholic Schools
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Sean Whittle is a Visiting Research Fellow at St Mary’s University in Twickenham and a Research Associate with the CRDCE, with Professor Gerald Grace. He also held a Fellowship at Heythrop College, University of London, for four years. 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. Dr Whittle 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. In recent 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 (NfRCE). As a result of this collaboration he has been able to publish two further edited volumes in 2018: Researching Catholic Education, (Springer) and Religious Education in Catholic schools in the UK and Ireland (Peter Lang). He has also been working as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Brunel University on the Religious Literacy project with Dr David Aldridge, Prof. Gert Biesta and Dr Pat Hannam. The final report on Religious Literacy and RE was published by the charitable trust Culham St Gabriel in 2019. He continues to serve as the secretary for the NfRCE and organises the annual conference for this association. He also serves as Vice Chair of academic association AULRE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Irish and British Reflections on Catholic Education
Book Subtitle: Foundations, Identity, Leadership Issues and Religious Education in Catholic Schools
Editors: Sean Whittle
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9188-4
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9187-7Published: 21 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-9190-7Published: 22 February 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-9188-4Published: 20 February 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 272
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Catholicism, Educational Philosophy