Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Catholic School Ethos Dominican Publications

Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Catholic School Ethos

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Living Ethos explores what makes for a vibrant and meaningful Catholic school ethos. It examines how values, leadership, faith, inclusion, community outreach, and personal development shape the culture of a school. Twenty research-based and class-room tested analyses of what contributes to an authentic caring ethos in Catholic schools.

  1. Contributions helpfully arranged under three headings: ‘Ethos from the inside out’; ‘Ethos Is for Life’; ‘Ethos and the Wider Community’.
  2. All contributions based on research
  3. All contributors have worked in the class-room, and some in school leadership


KEY AREAS

  • Styles of leadership
  • Outreach to the community
  • Faith as both vision and practice
  • Inter-religious dialogue, inclusion, and diversity
  • Adolescent faith formation
  • Relationship and sexuality education
  • Whole-school approach
  • Parents as partners
  • Extra-curricular activities
  • After-school support
  • Leaders taking responsibility for the role models they 
  • present
  • Learning for life and lifelong learning


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Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Catholic School Ethos Living Ethos describes and analyses in detail what makes for a vibrant and effective characteristic spirit in a Catholic school. Among these factors are: ü  Styles of leadership ü  Outreach to the community ü  Faith as both vision and practice ü  Inter-religious dialogue, inclusion, and diversity ü  Adolescent faith formation ü  Relationship and sexuality education ü  Whole-school approach ü  Parents as partners ü  Extra-curricular activities ü  After-school support ü  Leaders taking responsibility for the role models they present ü  Learning for life and lifelong learning All schools, whether established by the state or by a voluntary group, necessarily and implicitly espouse a vision both of education and of the human person. This characteristic spirit, or ethos, incorporates, shapes and expresses how people feel, think and act. It influences their values, what they believe, and how they see themselves in the world. It shapes the lives of students and their families, as well as of the staff. Living Ethos shows how Catholic school ethos is not static but, rather, is adaptive and evolutionary in nature, as it implements Gospel values, incorporates developments in education, addresses challenges in lifestyle, and the social and economic needs of society. It takes account of the range of duties and expectations arising from legal requirements and from public policy as well as from Church teaching and the founding vision of the school. Suggestions and ideas for development offered in Living Ethos are down-to-earth and practical, being based on reliable research and on lived experience.   Denis Robinson recently retired as director of the Centre for Religious Education, and Course Leader of MA in Christian Leadership in Education in Marino Institute of Education. The other 19 contributors have experience in the classroom and in school leadership as well as in research.

Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Catholic School Ethos

Living Ethos describes and analyses in detail what makes for a vibrant and effective characteristic spirit in a Catholic school. Among these factors are:

ü  Styles of leadership

ü  Outreach to the community

ü  Faith as both vision and practice

ü  Inter-religious dialogue, inclusion, and diversity

ü  Adolescent faith formation

ü  Relationship and sexuality education

ü  Whole-school approach

ü  Parents as partners

ü  Extra-curricular activities

ü  After-school support

ü  Leaders taking responsibility for the role models they present

ü  Learning for life and lifelong learning

All schools, whether established by the state or by a voluntary group, necessarily and implicitly espouse a vision both of education and of the human person. This characteristic spirit, or ethos, incorporates, shapes and expresses how people feel, think and act. It influences their values, what they believe, and how they see themselves in the world. It shapes the lives of students and their families, as well as of the staff.

Living Ethos shows how Catholic school ethos is not static but, rather, is adaptive and evolutionary in nature, as it implements Gospel values, incorporates developments in education, addresses challenges in lifestyle, and the social and economic needs of society. It takes account of the range of duties and expectations arising from legal requirements and from public policy as well as from Church teaching and the founding vision of the school.

Suggestions and ideas for development offered in Living Ethos are down-to-earth and practical, being based on reliable research and on lived experience.

 

Denis Robinson recently retired as director of the Centre for Religious Education, and Course Leader of MA in Christian Leadership in Education in Marino Institute of Education. The other 19 contributors have experience in the classroom and in school leadership as well as in research.

Living Ethos: Exploring the Heart and Practice of Catholic School Ethos

Living Ethos describes and analyses in detail what makes for a vibrant and effective characteristic spirit in a Catholic school. Among these factors are:

ü  Styles of leadership

ü  Outreach to the community

ü  Faith as both vision and practice

ü  Inter-religious dialogue, inclusion, and diversity

ü  Adolescent faith formation

ü  Relationship and sexuality education

ü  Whole-school approach

ü  Parents as partners

ü  Extra-curricular activities

ü  After-school support

ü  Leaders taking responsibility for the role models they present

ü  Learning for life and lifelong learning

All schools, whether established by the state or by a voluntary group, necessarily and implicitly espouse a vision both of education and of the human person. This characteristic spirit, or ethos, incorporates, shapes and expresses how people feel, think and act. It influences their values, what they believe, and how they see themselves in the world. It shapes the lives of students and their families, as well as of the staff.

Living Ethos shows how Catholic school ethos is not static but, rather, is adaptive and evolutionary in nature, as it implements Gospel values, incorporates developments in education, addresses challenges in lifestyle, and the social and economic needs of society. It takes account of the range of duties and expectations arising from legal requirements and from public policy as well as from Church teaching and the founding vision of the school.

Suggestions and ideas for development offered in Living Ethos are down-to-earth and practical, being based on reliable research and on lived experience.

 

Denis Robinson recently retired as director of the Centre for Religious Education, and Course Leader of MA in Christian Leadership in Education in Marino Institute of Education. The other 19 contributors have experience in the classroom and in school leadership as well as in research.