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ERIC Number: EJ955566
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 20
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 0
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1948-5905
Social Justice at the University of the Incarnate Word: Seeking Evidence in Support of Mission Effectiveness
Connelly, Robert; Doyle, Denise
Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, v24 n2 p127-146 Fall 2005
The purpose of this paper is to consider whether there is a support for and evidence of social justice content or activities planned as learning experiences at one Catholic school, the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, Texas. The first section of this paper summarizes the 1998 Bishops study that concludes that there is a pressing need to educate Catholics to the social teaching of the Church. In the next three sections we consider the meaning of social justice, the tradition of social teaching in the Catholic Church, and the social action this teaching engenders. In the fifth section, we will identify the four criteria we used to measure evidence of how social justice is included in course syllabi across the UIW campus. These criteria are based on what we consider to be the important legacy of Catholic social teaching and some of the important themes we have identified in that teaching. In the final sections we describe the methodology used in this study, report our findings, and suggest future applications of our approach that could both extend this research and ultimately help achieve the goal of making Catholic social teaching and the meaning of social justice a more broadly understood and shared reality at UIW and at other Catholic institutions.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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