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{"title":"Latino Family Engagement in a Network of Catholic Bilingual Schools","authors":"Gabrielle Oliveira, Eunhye Cho, Olivia Barbieri","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401102021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401102021","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we examine how a Network of Catholic Bilingual Schools (NCBS) serves Latino populations by examining the leadership’s narratives of the school services and outreach. By employing a survey with 16 principals in the NCBS, we argue that the rate of engagement is similar between Latino and non-Latino parents, although the nature of the activities varied. Despite the long-held belief that Latino parents are less likely to participate in schooling than non-Latino parents, we found that Latino parents committed their participation in schools across cultural, linguistic, or religious activities. We highlight how principals acknowledge and describe Latino families’ involvement as highly invested in their children’s education and their aspirations toward proficiency in both languages, Spanish and English as well a deep-rooted commitment to Catholic values.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132599886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Declining Enrollment in Catholic Schools in the West and Insights from the United States","authors":"Q. Wodon","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401182021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401182021","url":null,"abstract":": While enrollment in Catholic schools is rising in the global south, it is declining in many Western countries. Providing a quality and holistic education experience remains essential in both developed and developing countries, especially for disadvantaged groups. But in addition, in developed countries, trade-offs may have to be confronted to stem the decline in enrollment that affects the financial sustainability of schools. Building on a presentation made at the closing plenary of OIEC’s World Congress in New York, this paper focuses on the United States where enrollment in Catholic schools has been dropping for more than 50 years. In the absence of state support for Catholic schools and in a context of rising operating costs and therefore tuition, the decline in enrollment is due in part to a lack of affordability of schools given high out-of-pocket costs paid by parents. But other factors related to perceptions about Catholic schools also play a role. To stem the decline in enrollment, market research can help, including to assess how favorably Catholic and other types of schools are perceived in the population. The paper relies on data collected for the National Catholic Education Association to compare favorability ratings by type of schools and assess factors associated with these perceptions.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115359627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examining Teacher Advocacy for Full Inclusion","authors":"Jill Bradley-Levine","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401042021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401042021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128689474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Organizational Climate in Schools Across the Archdiocese of Detroit","authors":"Ben Pogodzinski, Anne Morris","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401112021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401112021","url":null,"abstract":"Tohelp inform continuous improvement efforts across Catholic Schools in theArchdiocese of Detroit (AOD), the Catholic Identity Program Effectiveness Surveys were administered to parents, students, and faculty/staff across schools in the AOD during Winter 2018. This work sought to identify variation in responses across respondents and schools. Additionally, we sought to identify an association between the survey responses and enrollment trends across schools. Our findings show some significant differences in responses across the domains of the survey as well as across respondent group. The initial analysis found no statistically significant association betweenmeasures of organizational climate and enrollment trends, though we acknowledge limitations in the data and call for continued research in this regard.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128402944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Laudato Si’: A Prophetic Message","authors":"A. E. Orobator","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401192021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401192021","url":null,"abstract":"Amounting body of evidence demonstrates that our generation and our civilization teeter on the brink of a man-made disaster of global scale. Climate change stands as the defining question of our century. Calls to global action are as strident and passionate as the enormity of the situation is grave and consequential. Of particular significance is Pope Francis’ encyclical letter Laudato Si’ on the care for our Common Home. This article discusses some of the main messages from Laudato Si’ including its call for pedagogical models of “ecological education” or “environmental education”. The article is adapted withminormodifications from an address at the opening session of the OIECWorld Congress held in New York in June 2019. L ong before the advent of Pope Francis as visionary and prophetic global champion of environmental justice, the late Kenyan Nobel Laureate for Peace, Wangari Muta Maathai (2010), alerted the international community to “the deep ecological wounds visible across the world” (p. 43). Planet Earth, our Mother, she warned, groans under the burden of global warming, pollution of air, water and land; and destruction of biodiversity and ecosystems. Maathai was a prophetic voice amidst a cacophony of climate change naysayers, deniers, cynics and skeptics who, sadly, seem impervious to reason and ethics. Since the pioneering work of Wangari Maathai, a mounting body of evidence demonstrates that our generation and our civilization teeter on the brink of “a man-made disaster of global scale. Our greatest threat in thousands of years,” to quote naturalist Sir David Attenborough (2018, p. 1). Climate change stands as the defining question of our century. For this reason, the calls to global action are as strident and passionate as the enormity of the situation is grave and consequential. 1 Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar Laudato Si’: A Prophetic Message 301 One such call, familiar, I believe, to many in this room, is the encyclical letter, Laudato Si’ (Francis, 2015), of Pope Francis, on the care for our Common Home. In the words of one commentator, [Laudato Si’] is a love poem to the world. It is a beautiful, heartfelt and farreaching plea for action. It speaks straight to our souls and it is rooted in St Francis.... It demands a rethink of Catholicism’s attitude to the Earth and the creatures who live alongside us. (Colwell, 2019, p. 4) With prophetic urgency, Pope Francis laments that “Never have we so hurt and mistreated our common home as we have in the last two hundred years” (no. 53). The consequence, he continues, is glaring and incontestable: “The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth” (no. 21). When the pope declares that we are damaging the Earth we do not have to take his word for it. After all, Francis is neither an environmental scientist nor an atmospheric physicist; but, his analyses and teachings in Laudato Si’ are corroborated by countless independent studies, UN and gov","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126615187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Preparing Priests to Lead Parish Schools: Concerns and Recommendations","authors":"Thomas A Simonds S.J., T. Cook, Maximilian Engel, Ronald D Fussell, Jean Hearn, Jerry Meyer","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401072021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401072021","url":null,"abstract":"Canon law recognizes the pastor as the chief educational officer (CEO) of the parish school. However, recent studies demonstrate that seminaries do not prepare seminarians for work in or leadership of Catholic schools, and recent scholarship also demonstrates that an increasing number of seminarians lack the desire to lead a parish school. Our research study examined the post-seminary preparation of priests for leadership of parish schools. We also explored alternative governancemodels for Catholic schools. We conducted structured interviews with 10 national leaders to explore these two areas of interest. Our findings demonstrate that preparation of newly ordained and veteran priests for parish school leadership is woefully inadequate. Interviewees suggested that the pastor/principal relationship and school finance are two important topics that should be addressed in best practice preparation programs for school leaders. All 10 interviewees had difficulty imagining alternative governance models for schools in which the pastor would not serve as the CEO, but at the same time, some of the participants could see potential benefits of alternative governance models. Based on the findings of our study, we recommend that: (1) seminary programs include an initial introduction to the importance of Catholic schools for evangelization; (2) a new national model for preparing young and veteran priests for school leadership be developed and implemented; (3) existing best practices for alternative governance models be collated and promulgated; and (4) church leaders and stakeholders determine the best governance models for their schools and then prepare the appropriate people for leadership roles accordingly.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134284609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Video Message to Participants to OIEC's World Congress in New York","authors":"P. Francis","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401142021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401142021","url":null,"abstract":"In his video message sent on the occasion of the closing plenary of OIEC’s World Congress, Pope Francis expressed sincere gratitude for all those who work in Catholic education. “I thank you for this service, and through you I would like to convey my sincere gratitude to all those who work in Catholic education: lay people, men and women religious, and priests,” he said. He also conveyed his warmest greetings to millions of students who attend Catholic institutes in city centers, making special mention of Catholic school students who live in the peripheries of society. The Pope said young people are the “today” of God and are the today of the Catholic Church’s educational mission. The OIEC International Congress 2019 — taking place under the theme Educatio Si -”Be educated” — is strongly focused on Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si (2015) and on the contribution of Catholic schools to teaching the values of solidarity, humanism, and the safeguarding of the common house. M adame President, Mr. Secretary General, Dear friends! I am happy to convey my most cordial greetings to all of you, who give life in the City of New York to the World Congress of OIEC on the topic: To Educate to fraternal humanism in order to build the civilization of love. I wish to extend a special greeting to your President, Madame Augusta Muthigani and to the Secretary General, Mr. Philippe Richard, as well as to the Secretaries of the Regional Committees of OIEC, and to the members of the different organizations. Your committed participation is a clear manifestation of the passion with which you live the educational mission in the spirit of the Gospel and according to the teachings of the Church. I am grateful to you for this service, and, through you, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to all those who work in Catholic teaching, including the lay faithful, women-religious, men-religious, Video Message to Participants 253 and priests. My thought goes with affection to the millions of female and male students who attend Catholic institutions in the cities and above all in the peripheries, as well as to their families. The young, as I have said during the World Youth Day in Panama, belong to the today of God, and therefore they are also the today of our educational mission. The deepening that you intend to undertake on the contribution of education to fraternal humanism should be understood as in line with the Declaration of the Second Vatican Council Gravissimum Educationis and I quote the Council: All men of every race, condition and age, since they enjoy the dignity of a human being, have an inalienable right to an education that is in keeping with their ultimate goal, their ability, their sex, and the culture and tradition of their country, and also in harmony with their fraternal association with other peoples in the fostering of true unity and peace on earth. (Paul VI, $, no. 1)","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121692265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Challenges and Opportunities for Catholic Schools Globally: Insights from OIEC's World Congress","authors":"G. Cattaro, P. Richard, Q. Wodon","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401132021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401132021","url":null,"abstract":"Every four years, the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC in French) organizes its World Congress as an opportunity for participants — including school teachers and principals, to share their experiences and achievements, as well as the challenges they face. In June 2019, the Educatio Si Congress took place in New York in partnership with Fordham University. The theme of the Congress was “Educating to fraternal humanism to build a civilization of love.” The closing plenary was held at the United Nations to highlight the contribution of Catholic schools to the fourth Sustainable Education Goal (SDG4), namely ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and promoting lifelong learning opportunities for all. This symposium comprises of selected contributions made at the congress, with a focus on the opening plenary at the Church of St Paul the Apostle and the closing plenary at the United Nations. M ore than 570 delegates from 80 countries attended the World Congress of the International Office of Catholic Education (OIEC or Office International de l’Education Catholique in French) in New York in June 2019. OIEC is the international organization that represents Catholic education at the pre-primary, primary, and secondary levels with international agencies. It also provides a forum for exchange and learning between national Catholic education associations. The event takes place every four years and is a great opportunity to share insights on the challenges and opportunities faced by Catholic schools globally. The aim of this symposium in the Focus section of the Journal of Catholic Education is to share some of the 1 Fordham University 2 Office International de l’Education Catholique (OIEC) 3 Volunteer lead for the Global Catholic Education Project","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133872054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Reconstruction: American Catholics Radical Response to the Social Gospel Movement and Progressives.","authors":"Paul Lubienecki","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401052021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401052021","url":null,"abstract":"At the fin de siècle the Industrial Revolution created egregious physical, emotional and spiritual conditions for American society and especially for the worker but who would come forward to alleviate those conditions? Protestants implemented their Social Gospel Movement as a proposed cure to these problems. Secular Progressives engaged in a more activist role both materially and through legislation. Both of these groups had limited successes with disappointing outcomes. America’s Catholics, more accustomed to living and working in industrialized neighborhoods, eventually developed their own programs and agenda to address social and labor concerns. However some scholars believed that Catholic efforts merely replicated what others had achieved. It was the actions of America’s Catholics in answer to these issues that propelled them onto the national scene with a sense of purpose, inclusion and equality. This paper examines each group to ascertain their programs, relevant accomplishments and demonstrate how resolutions to solve social and labor problems proceeded yet stagnated for some. For America’s Catholics their agenda for social reconstruction empowered them to assert themselves as equals with a long lasting viable program of future corrective action.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131243705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Death of an Academic Department: Sense-losing and Sacred Loss","authors":"Diane Walsh, K. Richardson, Marie Tylsova, William Guri, Ian T. Brown, Kari O'Grady","doi":"10.15365/JOCE.2401022021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15365/JOCE.2401022021","url":null,"abstract":"An unexpected academic department closure can be deeply unsettling to many stakeholders. Department closure is typically intended to be a cost-saving measure; however, department closure can be a difficult, time-consuming process with unexpected consequences. This study takes a hermeneutical phenomenological approach to explore the impact of the closure of an academic department. Participants were enrolled in one of the department’s academic programs at the time of the closure announcement and during data collection. Results indicated that participants sanctified the department, a process in which persons instill an object or aspect of their lives with spiritual significance (Pargament et al., 2005). The closure prompted participants to experience a cosmology episode in which a sudden shift in worldview occurred, and participants indicated being in the sense-losing stage where meaning had not yet been made. The findings of this study can serve as a model for leadership at all levels who are considering program closures, with particular attention on how to assist students.","PeriodicalId":248502,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Catholic Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121019884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}