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Transforming Ourselves, Transforming The World: Justice In Jesuit Higher Education, Stephen Hess S.J. Apr 2014

Transforming Ourselves, Transforming The World: Justice In Jesuit Higher Education, Stephen Hess S.J.

Journal of Catholic Education

Review of Transforming Ourselves, Transforming the World: Justice in Jesuit Higher Education.


Building Assets: The Strategic Use Of Closed Catholic Schools, Kristopher Knowles Apr 2014

Building Assets: The Strategic Use Of Closed Catholic Schools, Kristopher Knowles

Journal of Catholic Education

Review of Building Assets: The Strategic Use of Closed Catholic Schools.


Faith, Resistance, And The Future: Daniel Berrigan’S Challenge To Catholic Social Thought, Kurt Nelson Apr 2014

Faith, Resistance, And The Future: Daniel Berrigan’S Challenge To Catholic Social Thought, Kurt Nelson

Journal of Catholic Education

Review of Faith, Resistance, and the Future: Daniel Berrigan’s Challenge to Catholic Social Thought.


Culturally Responsive Caring And Expectations For Academic Achievement In A Catholic School, Christian Dallavis Apr 2014

Culturally Responsive Caring And Expectations For Academic Achievement In A Catholic School, Christian Dallavis

Journal of Catholic Education

This article draws from a larger dissertation study that applied ethnographic and historical research methods to explore the intersection of culturally responsive pedagogy and Catholic schooling in immigrant communities. In particular, this article presents qualitative data analysis to describe student achievement expectations at a contemporary urban Catholic elementary school. By examining teacher, student, and parent perspectives on academic achievement, the article explores the degree to which the caring demonstrated at the school is/is not consistent with a notion of “culturally responsive caring” in the scholarly literature surrounding theories of culturally responsive pedagogy.


Transforming Catholic Education Through Research: The American Educational Research Association Catholic Education Special Interest Group, Shane Martin Apr 2014

Transforming Catholic Education Through Research: The American Educational Research Association Catholic Education Special Interest Group, Shane Martin

Journal of Catholic Education

Catholic schools in the United States and abroad face numerous financial, cultural, and structural challenges due to contemporary education policies and economic trends. Within this climate, research about Catholic education is often conducted and leveraged in efforts to serve schools’ most immediate needs. To be certain, research aimed at finding solutions to pressing problems is important—indeed, essential—to Catholic schools’ survival. However, it is also important that research on Catholic education connect to larger questions, issues, and discourses in education—both private and public—in order to contribute important insights and bring otherwise marginalized voices to bear in contemporary educational debates.


The Development Of Faith Leadership In Novice Principals, Barbara Stacy Rieckhoff Apr 2014

The Development Of Faith Leadership In Novice Principals, Barbara Stacy Rieckhoff

Journal of Catholic Education

This article describes the Catholic School Principal Support Program (CSPSP), a mentoring program for first and second-year Catholic school principals in a large urban diocese, and identifies key challenges, impacts and influences on decision-making. Ten school leaders describe their work and provide the lens by which they reflect on their role as faith leaders. The challenges these principals face along with the various roles they play are discussed. Based on the perceptions and insights of their roles as faith leaders and how that role is situated within other leadership roles, this study seeks to better understand how the faith leadership …


Editors' Comments, Mary Mccullough, Karen Huchting, Martin Scanlan Apr 2014

Editors' Comments, Mary Mccullough, Karen Huchting, Martin Scanlan

Journal of Catholic Education

We are pleased to announce the new name for the Journal: The Journal of Catholic Education.