RE leader connectedness: a theology of the lived reality of Catholic education

The relationships between RE leaders in Catholic education and their schools and their religious communities may be ambiguous. RE leaders often appear disconnected from both ‘ordinary’ teacher issues and ‘ordinary’ leadership issues because of their religious responsibilities. In this innovative res...

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Authors: Stern, Julian (Author) ; Buchanan, Michael T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2021
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Year: 2021, Volume: 42, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-392
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Katholischer Religionspädagoge / Theology / Catholic religious instruction / Everyday consciousness
IxTheo Classification:FA Theology
KDB Roman Catholic Church
RF Christian education; catechetics
Further subjects:B Catholic Education
B Leadership
B Re
B Loneliness
B Visual methods
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Summary:The relationships between RE leaders in Catholic education and their schools and their religious communities may be ambiguous. RE leaders often appear disconnected from both ‘ordinary’ teacher issues and ‘ordinary’ leadership issues because of their religious responsibilities. In this innovative research project, the authors have explored RE leader connectedness and disconnectedness in Catholic schools around the world. Visual research methods are used, as respondents make use of artistic representations of both connectedness and disconnectedness, to describe (by explaining their choice of picture) the nature of their connectedness. Responses from Australia, Hong Kong in China, the USA, the UK and Germany are presented here, generating an initial account of the lived reality of RE leaders in Catholic schooling systems. Responses range from those who seem to integrate their accountabilities to school and church systems to those who seem more ‘torn’ between those systems and disconnected from one or both of school and church. The authors suggest this has implications for practical-empirical theology, and education more generally, based on the idea of the ‘bi-dimensionality’ of the RE leader role in Catholic schools, and on the role of the school in Catholic theology which, according to D’Souza, ‘cannot help but be one of the intersecting points where the problems and challenges of society are encountered’
ISSN:1469-9362
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2020.1850610