Author: Justine Bayard WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Thomas Edward Shields, Biologist, Psychologist, Educator
Author: Justine Bayard WardThomas Edward Shields, Biologist, Psychologist, Educator
Author: Justine Bayard WardThomas Shields and the Renewal of Catholic Education
Author: Leonardo FranchiPublisher: CUA Press
ISBN: 1949822389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book explores the contribution of the Rev Dr Thomas Shields (1862-1921) to Catholic education in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th century. Fr Shields was a pioneer in combining a career as an academic in Catholic University of America with the publication of many resources for schools. Given his pioneering role in aligning Catholic educational thought with emerging insights in the sciences, and his multi-layered commitment to Catholic education as scholar, author of textbooks and founder of initiatives in the field of Teacher Education, it seems fitting that his considerable body of work should be the subject of fresh scholarly investigation. The book is in five parts. Part 1, “Catholicism as an Educational Movement”, sets out the contours of the intellectual climate in which Shields operated and presents Catholicism as a dynamic educational movement. Part 2, “Responding to Progressive Thought”, explores the relationship between Progressivism and Catholic Education, showing how the Catholic Church responded to the challenges presented by Progressive thought. Part 3, “Shields and the Reform of Pedagogy”, examines both Shields’ general pedagogical principles and how they relate to Catholic education. Part 4, “Forming Teachers in Heart and Mind”, considers Shields’ ideas on Catholic Teacher Formation, exploring issues such as culture, vocation, method and curriculum. Part 5, “The Catholic Education Series”, explores selected examples from Shields’ Catholic Education Series to identify how his material for schools reflected, to a greater or lesser extent, his wider educational ideas. As the present age is also witness to considerable and deep-rooted challenges to Catholic education and, indeed to the Catholic understanding of the human person, Shields’ work will inspire contemporary reform-minded Catholic educators to reassess and develop the mission of Catholic education in light of the traditions of the Church.
The Church Confronts Modernity
Author: Thomas E. Woods Jr.Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231506872
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
As the twentieth century opened, American intellectuals grew increasingly sympathetic to Pragmatism and empirical methods in the social sciences. The Progressive program as a whole—in the form of Pragmatism, education, modern sociology, and nationalism—seemed to be in agreement on one thing: everything was in flux. The dogma and "absolute truth" of the Church were archaisms, unsuited to modern American citizenship and at odds with the new public philosophy being forged by such intellectuals as John Dewey, William James, and the New Republic magazine. Catholics saw this new public philosophy as at least partly an attack on them. Focusing on the Catholic intellectual critique of modernity during the period immediately before and after the turn of the twentieth century, this provocative and original book examines how the Catholic Church attempted to retain its identity in an age of pluralism. It shows a Church fundamentally united on major issues—quite unlike the present-day Catholic Church, which has been the site of a low-intensity civil war since the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965. Defenders of the faith opposed James, Dewey, and other representatives of Pragmatism as it played out in ethics, education, and nationalism. Their goals were to found an economic and political philosophy based on natural law, to appropriate what good they could find in Progressivism to the benefit of the Church, and to make America a Catholic country. The Church Confronts Modernity explores how the decidedly nonpluralistic institution of Christianity responded to an increasingly pluralistic intellectual environment. In a culture whose chief value was pluralism, they insisted on the uniqueness of the Church and the need for making value judgments based on what they considered a sound philosophy of humanity. In neither capitulating to the new creed nor retreating into a self-righteous isolation, American Catholic intellectuals thus laid the groundwork for a half-century of intellectual vitality.
THE BOOK OF THOMASES
Author: Dr. Thomas Clough DaffernPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244673764
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Formation and Development for Catholic School Leaders: The principal as educational leader, expectations in the areas of leadership, curriculum, and instruction
Author: Maria J. Ciriello, Ph.D.Publisher: USCCB Publishing
ISBN: 9781574550788
Category : Catholic schools
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Thomas Edward Shields, Religious Educator
Author: John Francis MurphyHandbook of Research on Catholic Higher Education
Author: Kendall HuntPublisher: IAP
ISBN: 1607527669
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education provides an important and timely overview for scholars and students interested in understanding this important sector of private higher education. More importantly, it is an important resource for those faculty, staff, and administrators interested in shaping the distinctiveness of Catholic colleges and universities. The Handbook provides chapters presenting a thematic overview of a particular element of Catholic higher education and in addition provides an extensive bibliography resource of further reading. While some of the chapters will appeal to those with specialized interests, e.g. legal affairs, finance, and community relations, the chapters on mission and religious identity, history, and the documents on Catholic higher education provide an important perspective on the challenges facing Catholic higher education and should be read by everyone involved in Catholic colleges and universities. The Handbook of Research of Catholic Higher Education is an important resource for understanding and shaping the distinctiveness of Catholic higher education.
Contending with Modernity
Author: Philip GleasonPublisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0195098285
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A detailed history of Catholic higher education in the USA, which emphasizes the intellectual and institutional dimensions of the subject.
Citizen Teacher
Author: Kate RousmanierePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791464885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The first book-length biography of Margaret Haley (1861–1939) focuses on her political vision, her activities as a public school activist, and her life as a charismatic woman leader.