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Wodon, Quentin – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
According to Church statistics, 6.9 million children were enrolled in Catholic primary and secondary schools in Europe. Enrolment has remained relatively stable over the last 40 years in comparison to other regions of the world, contributing to education pluralism. This may be in part because in many countries, Catholic and private schools benefit…
Descriptors: Catholics, Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Religious Education
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Hallman, Heidi – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2022
The question: 'Education: Commodity or Public Good?' (Grace, G. 1989. "Education: Commodity or Public Good?" "British Journal of Educational Studies" 37 (3): 207-221. doi:10.1080/00071005.1989.9973812) is more prescient than ever, and this paper probes the ways in which Catholic school teachers experience market-oriented…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Educational Change, Neoliberalism
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Katumba, Godfrey – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2021
Religious education, like all learning, can take place in informal, nonformal, and formal settings. In Uganda, the Education Bill 2007 triggered discussions about religious education and control over schools by founding religious bodies. In this context, the role played by the Mugigi course to supplement the religious education imparted in schools…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Religious Organizations, Supplementary Education
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Baker, Anne; MacKenzie, Cullen; McCormick, John – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2021
South African democracy was born in 1994 after years of oppression and dehumanisation. Through the implementation of Child Safeguarding Policies from 2012, deep unhappiness in schools was uncovered and the use of corporal punishment which was abolished in 1996 became apparent. Teachers were adamant that corporal punishment was the only means of…
Descriptors: Peace, Case Studies, Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries
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Cristóbal Madero, S. J. – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2021
This study gives an account of the transformation of Catholic Schools in Latin America in the years after the Vatican Council (1970-2015). Mainly, it looks into changes in their enrolment, and more importantly, in how the Catholic primary and secondary educational subsystem has varied in its shared participation within the national education…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Educational History
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Wodon, Quentin – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2019
Serving the poor is a prime component of the mission of Catholic and many other faith-based schools. Do the schools succeed in doing so? This paper and a companion paper focusing on learning aim to answer this question. In this paper, the focus is on schooling or enrolment in school. The paper considers first global and regional data on the number…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Poverty, Preschool Education