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Deirdre Raftery; Catriona Delaney – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
This article discusses oral history sources that give insight into how a specific group of teaching sisters (also known as nuns or women religious) reflect on their primary identity as vowed women, and their professional identity as teachers. Their identity was bound up with the fact that they had taken religious vows, and entered a congregation…
Descriptors: Nuns, Catholic Educators, Religious Education, Educational History
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Jimmy Smith; Catherine Zeisner; Ryan Turcott – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
The current research utilized a modern word cloud tool to assess the effectiveness of course objectives and outcomes of a community-engaged learning and core curriculum course at a private Catholic University. The foundational course revolves around social justice using the setting of sport and physical activity. Beginning with a final reflection…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Educators, Religious Colleges, Core Curriculum
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Matt Hoven; Dean Sarnecki; Eugenia Pagotta-Kowalczyk – Journal of Catholic Education, 2024
The shortage of teachers who can strongly identify with the religious mission of Catholic schools is at the point of an "existential crisis," according to a system leader in Catholic schools in Western Canada. Drawing upon exploratory interviews completed with ten chief superintendents (who oversee large school districts), this paper…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Teacher Shortage, Institutional Mission
Augustina Ngozi Mbata – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite the series of documents by the sacred ecumenical council and replete research enumerating the two-dimensional focus of Catholic schools: faith and academics and its collaborative nature, Nigerian (southeast) Catholic primary and secondary schools are continually experiencing activities of disharmony between Catholic identity and students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Academic Achievement, Catholics