Author : Didier Pollefeyt
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643905505
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Book Synopsis Identity in Dialogue by : Didier Pollefeyt
Download or read book Identity in Dialogue written by Didier Pollefeyt and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in increasingly pluralizing cultural contexts, Catholic schools face the challenge of recontextualizing their identity in a culturally plausible and theologically legitimate way. To this end, across Victoria, Australia, the Enhancing Catholic School Identity Project (ECSIP) has developed a suite of empirical instruments that provide an in-depth analysis of a school's current - as well as desired - identity in a statistically reliable way. The results are discussed in this book. After describing and interpreting the results, the empirical insights lead to well-informed recommendations aimed at the identity development of Catholic schools, with a normative preference for the Recontextualizing Dialogue School model as the way to enhance Catholic identity in a context of diversity. In this manner, ECSIP supports on-going processes of (self-) assessment that form the basis for continuing dynamics of (self-) improvement of the identity of Catholic educational institutions. (Series: Christian Religious Education and School Identity - Vol. 1) [Subject: Religious Studies, Christianity, Catholicism, Education, Australian Studies]