Like the marks of the Church proclaimed in the Creed – one, holy, catholic, and apostolic – so, too, does the Holy See identify the principal features of a school as Catholic: a Ca
They use these arguments for all sorts of purposes, some of them sensible enough, some of them almost insanely silly; but this is, broadly speaking, how they argue. And the one thi
Higher education should not neglect the personal formation of students. In the past, particularly in small institutions, there was a concern for the moral well-being of what were p
Philosophy of education is the branch of applied or practical philosophy concerned with the nature and aims of education and the philosophical problems arising from educational the
Writing a little over a decade ago of developments in educational philosophy, R. F. Dearden remarked on the dearth of alternative approaches to that of conceptual analysis which pr
What is education? Certainly the concept embraces more than schooling, since the school is only one institution invented to accomplish the purpose of education. Then too, we must a
At the same time, the Congregation for Catholic Education has been confronted with cases of conflicts and appeals resulting from different interpretations of the traditional concep
The Catholic school is receiving more and more attention in the Church since the Second Vatican Council, with particular emphasis on the Church as she appears in the Constitutions
Historically in Western Europe up to the period of the Reformation, and in many places subsequent to it, the main provider of schooling was the Roman Catholic Church. With the arrival in Australasia and North America of large numbers of people from Catholic countries such as Ireland and Italy Catholic schooling began to develop there and to grow significantly. In some parts of the world it is publicly funded in others the cost is born by parents, parishes and diocese. The existence of Catholic schools poses two broad philosophical questions: 1) what are they for? 2) is it right that they should exist? The short reply to 1) is that their primary function is to educate and form children in line with Catholic understandings of human beings and their destiny. 2) is answered by observing that parents have a right to educate their children, or deputise others to do so, in line with their own beliefs and values. These raise further questions of philosophical, moral and political sorts, which call for not just a philosophy of Catholic education, but a Catholic philosophy of education more generally.