Catholic school journal.

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School Choice and Student Screening in the Chilean Educational System: Who Chooses Whom?. The Case of the Catholic Education

The student´s screening made by schools corresponds to a regulatory mechanism for school inclusion and exclusion that normally overlaps the parental expectations of school choice. Based in "Parents survey 2006" data (n=188.073) generated by the Chilean Educational Ministry, this paper describe the parents reasons for choosing their children's school, and school´s criteria for screening students. It concludes that the catholic schools are the most selective institutions and usually exceed the capacity of parental choice. One of the reasons to select students would be the direct relationship between this practice and increasing the average score on the test of the Chilean Educational Quality Measurement System (SIMCE).

Voices of lay principals: Promoting a Catholic character and culture in schools in an era of change

This paper reports a qualitative study of the practice of leadership in Catholic schools to ascertain the perceptions of lay principals, who as positional leaders play a critical role in embracing and creatively rebuilding the Catholic vision of life within the reality that the Catholic school principalship is now a ministry of the laity. The methodology included semi-structured interviews, field notes, reflexive journals, direct observation, and document nalysis. The study examined both individual human behaviour and the structure of the social order in Catholic schools. The findings point towards successful leadership in Catholic schools being highly influenced by the cultural and spiritual capital that a principal brings to a school signifying a fundamental importance of appointing principals who are not only professionally competent but spiritually as well. In an era of unprecedented social, educational and ecclesial change, and with an ever widening role description, lay principals are challenged to redefine and re-articulate their Catholic character and identity, and will need to look for new ways to make this explicit. Embracing a new leadership paradigm of shared leadership, the preparation and on-going formation of lay principals were identified as critical for the continuance of the Catholic school’s distinctive mission in the future.

Partnership for arts integration : exploring the experiences of teachers and artists working with integrated arts programs

This research acknowledges the difficulties experienced by teachers presenting integrated arts curricula. Instructional support is offered by arts organizations that provide arts partnerships with local schools boards. The study focuses on the experiences of 8 teachers from a Catholic school board in southern Ontario who participated in integrated arts programs offered by The Royal Conservatory of Music's Learning Through the Arts™ (LTTATM) program and a local art gallery's Art Based Integrated Learning (ABIL) program and examines their responses to the programs and their perception of personal and professional development through this association. Additionally, questions were posed to the . "aftisfs"from-tneSe]Jfograrrrs;-and"they liiscus·sed·how"participating in-collaboration with teachers in the development of in-school programs enabled them to experience personal and professional development as well. Seven themes emerged from the data. These themes included: teachers' feelings of a lack of preparedness to teach the arts; the value of the arts and arts partnerships in schools; the role of the artists in the education of teachers; professional development for both teachers and artists; the development of collegiality; perceptions of student engagement; and the benefits and obstacles of integrating the arts into the curriculum. This document highlights the benefits to both teachers and artists of arts partnerships between schools and outside arts organizations.

A comparison of life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and happiness using demographic variables

This study examined the interrelationships among life satisfaction, job satisfaction, and happiness and the selected demographic variables of income, age, marital status, education, sex, job tenure, job title, type of school, and location of employment. Survey data were collected from 1,993 elementary, high school, and community college teachers in the southern Ontario area, representing ten public school boards, three Roman Catholic school boards and three community colleges. Several theories were utilized in developing thirteen hypotheses and eleven experimental hypotheses. A thorough review of the literature (to January, 1980) was undertaken and major conclusions noted. Hoppock's (1935) Job Satisfaction Measure, Gurin, Veroff, and Feld's (1960) Happiness Scale, and Converse and Robinson's (1965) Life Satisfaction Scale were used as the instrument. Chi-square analysis was employed as the statistical method. Indicative of the findings: the level of education taught was significantly related to all three organizational variables, sex was unrelated to life satisfaction though positively related to job satisfaction, and income was found not to be related to either happiness or life satisfaction. A minority of findings were contrary to hypothesized relationships. Specifically, age was found to be unrelated to any of the three organizational variables, and educational achievement was not significantly related to happiness. A model was developed to illustrate the interrelationships of the organizational and demographic variables. This model was designed specifically to reflect teacher attitudes, though it may have reasonable application for other relatively homogeneous groups of employees such as nurses, engineers, or social workers.

Une culture du pluralisme religieux chez les jeunes au Collège Saint-Viateur de Ouagadougou comme prophylaxie contre l’intégrisme religieux au Burkina Faso

Le Collège Saint-Viateur de Ouagadougou est une école catholique dont la mission est d’évangéliser les jeunes qui le fréquentent tout en leur assurant une éducation chrétienne de qualité. Or, en plus des catholiques, beaucoup de ses élèves sont musulmans, chrétiens protestants et animistes. Alors, on est en présence d’une diversité religieuse au sein de cette communauté éducative. Comme cette situation est acceptée et reconnue, on peut parler de pluralisme religieux. Dans ce contexte, jaillit la question de savoir s’il est toujours pertinent d’évangéliser les jeunes catholiques et membres des autres religions ou s’il faut simplement les éduquer afin qu’ils soient de meilleurs humains dans leur propre religion. Autour cette question se déroule une aventure de recherche en cinq chapitres correspondant aux cinq étapes de la praxéologie pastorale. Le premier chapitre campe le portrait de la communauté éducative du Collège Saint-Viateur dans le contexte pluriel du Burkina Faso et dégage les forces et faiblesses de la manière dont est gérée la diversité religieuse en son sein. Le deuxième pose la problématique de la pertinence de l’évangélisation des jeunes de religions différentes en assurant leur éducation chrétienne. Le troisième expose une herméneutique de l’acte d’évangéliser des jeunes en tenant compte de la perspective théologique positive du pluralisme religieux mise en rapport avec le magistère de l’Église sur l’éducation chrétienne des jeunes. Le quatrième formule quatre propositions pour que l’évangélisation de la jeunesse en ce contexte de pluralité religieuse ait le sens d’une éducation intégrale pour amener les jeunes à devenir de meilleurs humains dans leur propre foi. Le cinquième, enfin, émet les espérances et dégage les effets bénéfiques d’une culture du pluralisme religieux chez les jeunes au Collège Saint-Viateur de Ouagadougou. Cette culture constituerait en même temps une prophylaxie évangélique contre l’intégrisme religieux au sein de la communauté éducative et dans la société burkinabè.

Écoles catholiques et diversité religieuse en classe : cas du Collège catholique Père Aupiais de Cotonou en République du Bénin

Résumé La diversité religieuse est un fait bien attesté aujourd’hui en République du Bénin. Chrétiens, Musulmans, adeptes des religions traditionnelles et ceux d'autres spiritualités se côtoient autant dans la sphère publique que privée sur le territoire béninois. N’épargnant donc aucun domaine de la société béninoise, cette diversité s'exprime également dans les milieux scolaires notamment dans les écoles privées catholiques du pays. La volonté du diocèse de Cotonou d'ouvrir les portes de ses écoles à tous les enfants sans distinction de religions ni d'ethnies, entraine de facto l'épineux problème de la gestion de la diversité religieuse et du pluralisme dans ses institutions confessionnelles. Sensible à cette problématique en milieu scolaire auprès des jeunes, le cas du collège catholique Père Aupiais nous intéresse pour son approche du cours de religion dispensé aux élèves du premier cycle. Le présent travail dans une démarche praxéologique, observe, analyse et interprète un cours confessionnel de religion donné en classe de 5è secondaire dans ledit collège. Cette interprétation s’appuie sur des référents théoriques que sont le Magistère de l'Église, un texte biblique, l’approche pédagogique de Philippe Meirieu, la théologie dialogale de Richard Bergeron, l’apport de certains responsables d'écoles privées confessionnelles québécoises. Ces derniers constituent des éléments importants dans notre intervention dans le contexte de ce travail. Il s’agit en définitive de proposer quelques recommandations pour la mise en place d'un cours d'enseignement moral et religieux favorisant le « vivre ensemble ». L’intérêt de ce travail est de susciter le débat sur la gestion de la diversité et du pluralisme en milieu scolaire catholique béninois.

Educação de meninos no espaço religioso : um estudo sobre a educação católica arquidiocesana (1961 - 1966)

O trabalho foca e analisa o Ginásio Arquidiocesano Sagrado Coração de Jesus, colégio criado na Arquidiocese de Aracaju/Se, escola confessional exclusiva na educação de homens no período de 1961 a 1966, criada pelo Padre José Carvalho de Souza, como um instrumento a serviço da Educação Católica na cidade de Aracaju. Os padres Diocesanos do Sagrado Coração de Jesus tinham como objeto a instrução de rapazes de todo o estado sergipano, a partir dos princípios da fé cristã. Como objeto principal, o trabalho discute a trajetória desta instituição de ensino a partir da cultura escolar católica masculina em seus primeiros anos de existência, mediante as memórias de ex-alunos, professores, membros da instituição, documentos institucionais, e do arquivo público do Estado de Sergipe, através dos periódicos consultados.

A Internet como tecnointeração da aprendizagem: valorização da cultura e identidade juvenil

The present study investigates Internet as technological interaction in the school environment as a resource of the teaching-learning process. It aims to discuss the lack of synchronicity between proposals of educational access for Internet use and types of access and interaction applied by youngsters. For the development of this research, I resorted to a qualitative, descriptive and explanatory research focused on a group whose subjects are youngsters from eleven to fifteen years of age in a catholic school which belongs to a group of private teaching schools in Natal city, Rio Grande do Norte state. As methodological option it focus on a group and the observation of its participation, discourse analysis and ethnography, considering facts and data of the pedagogical practice concerning the focused theme, besides the attempt to know the youngsters everyday at school and the relationship between them and juvenile cultures. It recognizes the existence of two moments of the focused group: the first related to internet use like technological interaction; the second concerns to the way Internet is problematic as technological interaction in classroom learning. While contacting with youngsters, the study discusses the concepts of Media Environments, Culture, Identity, Network, Consumption and Citizenship. It recognizes that it is relevant for the school to consider Internet a pedagogical tool, directed not just at research, but mostly as learning environment and as learning construction in a collaborative way. It points out the need of approach between school and media environment, reevaluating the pedagogical practice, offering a new evaluation proposal (self-evaluation). It suggests a renewal in the teacher's pedagogical practice in the classroom and using Internet, valuing the connection between technological interaction and communication as motivation elements of student s learning construction and their effective participation in decisions involving citizenship. It gives priority to educational work directed at the establishment of dialogic relationship between codes, learning and contents, leading to the new findings domain in the media environment, enabling the development of abilities and performances directed at the recognition and consumption of information from a critical reading of the media

Uma, nove ou dez narrativas sobre as licenciaturas em ciências e matemática em Mato Grosso do Sul

Pós-graduação em Educação Matemática - IGCE

Letters addressed to the Right Hon. Lord Alvanley, on his pamphlet entitled The state of Ireland considered, and measures proposed for restoring tranquillity to that country /

Includes bibliographical references.

Teaching morphology trough communicative approach and cooperative learning in Secondary Education: practical proposal

We will be presenting the following practical proposal that will consist of two sessions implemented with different courses of Secondary Education (ESO) of the Colegio Círculo Católico (Catholic School Group), located in the city of Burgos. Each session lasts 55 minutes. These sessions focus on the morphology of the Spanish language. Its design has been carried out by keeping in mind the theoretical basis of the communicative approach and cooperative learning.