Full Description
Faith-based Identity and Curriculum in Catholic Schools examines the relationship between faith-based education and whole curriculum at a time when neoliberal ideologies and market values are having a disproportionate influence on national education policies.
Topics addressed include: current challenges and dilemmas faced by Catholic Education leadership; Catholic social teaching and its implications for whole curriculum; the opinions of teachers in Queensland Catholic schools regarding faith-based school identity with particular reference to whole curriculum; an associated comparison of these opinions teachers with those of their USA peers; school identity and Catholic social teaching in Ontario Catholic schools; an action research approach to the integration of Catholic social teaching in Queensland Catholic schools; longitudinal study of the views of pre-service teachers at a Catholic university regarding the purposes and characteristics of Catholic schools.
Bringing together professionals and academics from across the world, Faith-based Identity and Curriculum in Catholic Schools will inspire Catholic and other faith-based educators to appreciate the importance and potential of the integration of faith-based perspectives such as countercultural Catholic social teaching across the school curriculum in an educationally appropriate manner.
Contents
Introduction; 1: Critical challenges and dilemmas for Catholic Education leadership internationally; 2: Catholic social teaching; 3: Laudato Si': some curriculum and pedagogical implications; 4: Catholic social teaching should permeate the Catholic secondary school curriculum: an agenda for reform; 5: Teaching for a just world: social justice and human rights perspectives across the curriculum; 6: The distinctive nature of Catholic Education in Ontario: Catholic perspective integrated across the formal curriculum; 7: The identity of Catholic schools as seen by teachers in Catholic schools in Queensland; 8: The characteristics of Catholic schools: comparative perspectives from the USA and Queensland, Australia; 9: Longitudinal study of the attitudes of pre-service teachers at an Australian Catholic University to key aspects of faith-based education: some conundrums to ponder; 10: Curriculum, culture and Catholic Education: a Queensland perspective; 11: The integration of Catholic social teaching across the curriculum: a school-based action research approach; 12: Identity and Curriculum in Catholic Education: main lessons and issues arising
