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Dixon, Robert T. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
A large number of Religious Orders administered and taught in Catholic elementary and secondary schools. This article examines their contributions to the Catholic formation and education of their students by their witness and curriculum. It discusses their contributions and the extent of them in the light of the provincial environment in which…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries
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
Herriot, Lindsay; Callaghan, Tonya D. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2019
Background: Mainstream media is increasingly reporting on the relationships between Catholic and trans identities in parochial schools, particularly with regard to gendered restroom use. With greater numbers of trans youth coming out at younger ages, significant educational policy changes are being considered around how Catholic schools can or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholic Schools, LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity
Gemmell, K. M. – History of Education Quarterly, 2019
Progressive education swept across Canada in the early to mid-twentieth century, restructuring schools, introducing new courses, and urging teachers to reorient the classroom to the interests and needs of the learner. The women religious who taught in Vancouver's Catholic schools negotiated the revised public school curriculum, determined to…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Progressive Education, Catholic Educators
O'Sullivan, Michael W.; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Bulgarian Comparative Education Society, 2014
This case study examines the understudied phenomenon of teacher mentoring for global competence and brings attention to the relationship between the self-identified secondary school teachers who participate in an international service-learning (ISL) project in Nicaragua and a Non-Government Organization (NGO) which facilitates these short, but…
Descriptors: Mentors, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Case Studies
Salm, Luke – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2007
The Brothers of the Christian Schools, popularly known in the United States as Christian Brothers, have made numerous significant contributions to the development of Catholic education. Building and staffing schools, colleges, and orphanages, producing textbooks and catechetical materials, advocating for the poor, and creating new models of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Males, Catholic Educators
Donlevy, J. Kent – Religious Education, 2007
This article deals with the impact on Catholic teachers resulting from the inclusion of non-Catholic students in Catholic schools. Deriving findings from focus groups of Catholic teachers drawn from four urban Western Canadian Catholic high schools, this article proffers that although inclusion heightens Catholic teachers' uncertainty regarding…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, High Schools, Focus Groups

Elias, John – Religious Education, 1989
Analyzes and contrasts a number of Roman Catholic documents, published in the United States and foreign countries, emphasizing theological themes which are presented as central to adult religious education. Focuses on the tension between church authority and adult education principles. Concludes that the optimism of the documents is diminished by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Programs, Catholic Educators
Tkach, Nicholas – 1983
The purposes of this book are to trace the influence of major social forces on the Alberta, Canada, public and Catholic school systems and to detail the evolution of these two systems. Beginning with a review of "The First People" of the Northwest Territories, chapter I examines political, economic, and sociocultural developments and…
Descriptors: Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Curriculum, Educational History
Welton, Michael – 2002
This document examines the role of Father Jimmy Tompkins in the struggle for a Catholic Progressivism in the Diocese of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Canada, from 1902 through 1922. The discussion begins with a brief overview of the diocese and the editorial policy and content of the diocesan newspaper, "The Casket," which had maintained a…
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Adult Learning, Catholic Educators, Catholics
Thiessen, Elmer John – 2001
This book presents a philosophical defense of religious schools and colleges. It attempts to bridge the gap between philosophical argument and educational practice. In placing its argument within the context of liberal-democratic values, the book offers concrete examples of objections to religious schools and offers suggestions that follow from…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Catholic Educators, Catholic Schools, Church Programs