Identity in Dialogue: Assessing and Enhancing Catholic School Identity. Research Methodology and Research

Didier Pollefeyt & Jan Bouwens

ISBN 10: 3643905505 / ISBN 13: 9783643905505

Published by LIT Verlag, 2014

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THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. Situated in increasingly pluralizing cultural contexts, Catholic schools face the challenge of recontextualizing their identity in a culturally plausible and theologically legitimate way. To this end, across Victoria, Australia, the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (ECSIP) has developed a suite of empirical instruments that provide an in-depth analysis of a school's current - as well as desired - identity in a statistically reliable way. The results are discussed in this book. After describing and interpreting the results, the empirical insights lead to well-informed recommendations aimed at the identity development of Catholic schools, with a normative preference for the Recontextualizing Dialogue School model as the way to enhance Catholic identity in a context of diversity. In this manner, ECSIP supports on-going processes of (self-) assessment that form the basis for continuing dynamics of (self-) improvement of the identity of Catholic educational institutions. Good condition. Slight bumps to corners and edges. Copyright © LIT Verlag.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Identity in Dialogue: Assessing and Enhancing Catholic School Identity. Research Methodology and Research
• Publisher: LIT Verlag
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3643905505
• ISBN 13: 9783643905505
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good

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Situated in increasingly pluralizing cultural contexts, Catholic schools face the challenge of recontextualizing their identity in a culturally plausible and theologically legitimate way. To this end, across Victoria, Australia, the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (ECSIP) has developed a suite of empirical instruments that provide an in-depth analysis of a school's current - as well as desired - identity in a statistically reliable way. The results are discussed in this book. After describing and interpreting the results, the empirical insights lead to well-informed recommendations aimed at the identity development of Catholic schools, with a normative preference for the Recontextualizing Dialogue School model as the way to enhance Catholic identity in a context of diversity. In this manner, ECSIP supports on-going processes of (self-) assessment that form the basis for continuing dynamics of (self-) improvement of the identity of Catholic educational institutions. (Series: Christian Religious Education and School Identity - Vol. 1) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity, Catholicism, Education, Australian Studies]