Complicated Conversations in Catholic Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Drawing upon work in Curriculum Theory, this symposium seeks to build a complicated conversation about the nature of Catholic Education as a field (and site) of research. This is not, necessarily, work that takes Catholic Education as always ever supportive of the common good. Indeed the session seeks to address a serious gap in extant research around traditional narratives about Catholic schooling. Given research that challenges the ongoing relevance of Bryk, Lee, & Holland (1993), e.g. (Reardon, Cheadle, & Robinson, 2008; Waddington & Berends, 2018) scholars would do well to ask not only ‘what good does Catholic schooling do?’ but also ‘in what ways do Catholic schools do harm?’ and, ‘in what ways might we reimagine success through a Catholic frame?

Sub Unit

• SIG-Catholic Education

Chair

• Kevin J Burke, University of Georgia - Athens

Papers

• Suspension and Expulsion: Catholic Early Educator Perspectives - Courtney O'Grady, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Michaelene Ostrosky, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• "Racism Is a God-Damned Thing": The Implications of Historical and Contemporary Catholic Racism for English Language Arts Classrooms - Mary Neville, New Mexico State University

• Toward an Ethic of Hospitality: Critical Examinations of Whiteness in Predominantly White Catholic Schools - Kaitlin Wegrzyn, Immaculate Conception St. Joseph School

• For What Mission Are School Leaders Prepared? Analyzing Leadership Formation Programs and the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools - Andrew Frederic Miller, Boston College; Michael T. O'Connor, Boston College