Fragmented Catholicity and Social Cohesion: Faith Schools in a Plural Society

ISBN-13: 9783034308960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 190 str.

Francis, Leslie J.

Opis

Faith schools make visible a connection between religion and education, a much-contested aim. Principled arguments are frequently made for and against these schools, without evidence from empirical research. This book attempts to address the issues raised by religious education by offering a rich in-depth ethnographic case study of Catholic secondary schools, exploring pupils perceptions of life in the Catholic secondary school in twenty-first-century England. The findings suggest that although the crucifix is in all classrooms, the Catholicity within the school is changing. Catholic pupils are constructing fragmentary Catholic identities; they are asserting a right to bricolage .
This book considers questions pertinent to all faith schools, such as the extent to which they may contribute to or detract from social cohesion, and the extent to which a faith school is able to and/or ought to maintain and transmit the memory of faith tradition in a secular and plural society."

Spis treści

Contents: Catholic schools in context - Changing signs of Catholicity - Fragmented Catholicity - Transmitting Catholicity - Religious Education - A Catholic community - Social cohesion and Catholicity - Implications for the Catholic future.

O autorze

Ann Casson holds a PhD from the Institute of Education at Warwick University. She is an Associate Fellow of the Warwick Religious Education Research Unit (WRERU) and a trustee of the Religious Resources Centre in North East England. She is a qualified secondary Religious Education teacher who has taught in a variety of English schools including independent, community and Catholic secondary schools. She combines teaching with her research in the area of Religious Education.