Challenges Facing Research into Catholic Schools

Sean Whittle is Senior Lecturer in Catholic Education at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and a member of CERRL (the Centre for Catholic Education, Research, and Religious Literacy). He is also a Research Associate working with Professor Gerald Grace (the founding and former Director of the Centre for Research and Development in Catholic Education). For many years alongside these academic roles he worked part-time as a secondary school RE teacher in West London. His book, “A Theory of Catholic Education” (Bloomsbury 2014), presents a robust philosophy of Catholic education that draws fruitfully on insights from Karl Rahner. He makes a sustained case for a non-confessional way of framing Catholic education.

• Introduction.- Headwinds crosswinds and a roadmap challenges and opportunities for catholic school research in canada and the united states.- Researching catholic schools ethos and educators an irish perspective.- What makes a school catholic revisiting research findings in the landscape of multi academy trusts an english perspective.- Researching catholic education an australian perspective.- Renewal in the catholic community the important contribution of focused research.- Research on catholic schools a kenyan context.- Navigating the place of philosophy and theology in catholic education research.- Researching catholic education communicating the tradition.- Academic research in catholic education reflecting on the past and building for the future.