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Hidalgo-Tenorio, Encarnacion; Benitez-Castro, Miguel-Angel – Applied Linguistics, 2021
Drawing on Martin and White's Appraisal Theory, we study the language of evaluation in a corpus of interviews selected from the archives of "The Magdalene Oral History Project." Apart from being deprived of proper food, clothing, and their identity, many of the women who spent their lives in Ireland's Magdalene institutions had been, or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personal Narratives, Females, Victims
Kristen R. Deane – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study was to better understand the spiritual care experience and describe perceptions about how spiritual care received via a campus minister impacts spiritual well-being for undergraduates at an urban, Midwestern Catholic university. To explore this question, five undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Caring, Ethics, Religious Factors, Undergraduate Students
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Mihovilovic, Mary; Boulton, Helen – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2020
This article gives voice to Catholic teachers working in secular English schools. Their experience is an under-researched area and, despite a wealth of teaching on the vocation of the teacher, the specific vocation of the Catholic teacher in a secular school receives scant attention from the Catholic Church and researchers. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Catholics, Public Schools, Interviews, Teachers
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D'Agostino, T.J.; Carozza, Paolo G. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2019
This article contributes to a discussion about building a research agenda for the international and comparative study of Catholic education. Globally, the Catholic Church's work in education represents by far the largest civil society organisation running schools and an institution of enormous historical and persistent importance in the shaping of…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Catholics, Comparative Education
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Sullivan, Debra; Peña, Jorge – Journal of Catholic Education, 2019
The National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools (NSBECS) are a national articulation of defining characteristics and performance benchmarks that guide Catholic schools in assessing, strengthening, and sustaining their operations in four Domains: Mission and Catholic Identity, Governance and Leadership, Academic Excellence, and…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Education, Catholics, Catholic Schools
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Boeve, Lieven – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2019
Rather than choosing between either catholic identity, or openness to otherness, the catholic dialogue school envisages, through the dialogue with the other, to stir the (re)discovery of one's own identity, and to introduce once again the Christian voice within the conversation. After introducing this project, I reflect more extensively on how to…
Descriptors: Catholics, Self Concept, Anthropology, Christianity
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Capets, Mary Rachel – Journal of Religious Education, 2018
In 2014, forty-five educators from Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney embarked on a sacred journey to Rome for the canonisation of Popes John XXIII and John Paul II. The pilgrimage was designed to offer faith formation, professional development and a means of sharing the faith with their school communities upon return. This study seeks…
Descriptors: Catholics, Religious Factors, Catholic Schools, Lay Teachers
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Adrian Muscat – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
This paper discusses the role of the Catholic Church amongst the Maltese diaspora in Australia, and its impact on the maintenance of the Maltese language, a small community language spoken largely by the first generation of immigrants who left Malta after the Second World War. The study is based on interview data collected among three generations…
Descriptors: Church Role, Catholics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Jessica Shiller – Democracy & Education, 2024
This article describes the work of a civic education program in New York City schools called Youthbuilders, which existed from 1938 to 1948. Youthbuilders' aim was to engage youth in civic education projects and teach them about their place in a democracy and worked with them to support racial and social equality. Shortly after World War II, they…
Descriptors: Democracy, Educational History, Social Change, Citizenship Education
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Francis Davis – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
The developing science of cathedral studies has focused mainly on Anglican cathedrals. The present study argues for drawing Catholic cathedrals into this field. Employing data gathered from the websites of the 22 Catholic cathedrals in England and Wales, alongside data gathered from the diocesan reports submitted to the Charity Commission, this…
Descriptors: Catholics, Churches, Web Sites, Institutional Mission
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McDermid, Jane – Scottish Educational Review, 2021
In 1972, this journal published opposing views of the state of education in the period running up to the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act. J.C Myers painted a pessimistic picture of the national system based on the parish school and dominie whereas Donald Withrington presented a positive assessment of the contribution of non-parish schools. Both…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Change, Religious Schools, Institutional Characteristics
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Torevell, David – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2020
Catholic schools and colleges are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain and sharpen their distinctiveness in a climate of secularism, indifference to religion and the shortage of practising Catholics. This article argues that one method of bolstering Catholic schools' mission integrity is to highlight one important feature of its identity…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Institutional Mission
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Whelen, John D. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
The final report of the Australian Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse comprises 17 volumes, one of which addresses its findings in relation to schools. In this article, I raise two key questions in response to the devastating details of the allegations made by survivors of their abuse: how was any of this possible,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Reports, Educational Environment
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McDonough, Graham P. – Religious Education, 2020
This paper examines Catholic RE curriculum documents from 2 jurisdictions to assess how well they present Jews and Judaism. It finds that their representations of Jews and Judaism rely on structures of thought, reinforced by normative Catholicism, that enable the conditions to reproduce supersessionist thinking and attitudes. Its conclusion argues…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Religious Education, Catholics
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Walker, Timothy – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2019
This article is intended to contribute to the debate about the nature of a Catholic philosophy of education by exploring the philosophical issues involved in the apparent conflict between scientific and religious knowledge claims. The claim that modern science has rendered religious truth claims unreasonable appears to be influential among…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholics, Educational Philosophy, Scientific Research
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