Contemporary Catholic School

Terence McLaughlin, Joseph O'Keefe, Joseph O'Keefe

• 1. Setting the Scene: Current Realities and Historical Perspectives, Part 1. The Context of the Contemporary Catholic School, 2. Lessons from Catholic High Schools on Renewing our Educational Institutions, 3. National Crisis, Catholic Schools and the Common Good, 4. Markets, Education and Catholic Schools, 5. Leadership in Catholic Schools, 6. The Common Good, Pluralism and Catholic Education, Part 2. The Identity of the Catholic School, 7. What Makes a School Catholic?, 8. Catholic Education and Catholic Identity, 9. The Distinctiveness of Catholic Education, 10. Wholeness, Faith and the Distinctiveness of the Catholic School, 11. Recognition and Responsivity: Unlearning the Pedagogy of Estrangement for a Catholic Moral Education, Part 3. Social Justice, Diversity and the Catholic School, 12. No Margin, No Mission, 13. Equality, Race and Catholic Schools, 14. Who Do We Serve and What Do We Offer?: Race, Equality and Catholic Schools, 15. Catholic Schools and Other Faiths, 16. Catholic Schools in a World of Many Faiths: Church Teaching and Theological Perspectives, 17. Other Faiths in Catholic Schools: General Implications of a Case Study, Part 4. Catholic Schools: The Way Forward, 18. Renewing Teaching: Building Professional Communities of Hope and Inquiry, 19. Openness and Intellectual Challenge in Catholic Schools, 20. The Catholic School and Religious Education: Meeting a Variety of Needs, 21. Directions for Research in Catholic Education in the USA and the UK, Notes on Contributors, Index