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The American Covenant, Catholic Anthropology and Educating for American Citizenship: The Importance of the Catholic School Ethos. Or, Four Men in a Bateau

Joy, Ruth
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent153322047768821

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2018, PHD, Kent State University, College of Education, Health and Human Services / School of Foundations, Leadership and Administration.
Dozens of academic studies over the course of the past four or five decades have shown empirically that Catholic schools, according to a wide array of standards and measures, are the best schools at producing good American citizens. This dissertation proposes that this is so is partly because the schools are infused with the Catholic ethos (also called the Catholic Imagination or the Analogical Imagination) and its approach to the world in general. A large part of this ethos is based upon Catholic Anthropology, the Church’s teaching about the nature of the human person and his or her relationship to other people, to Society, to the State, and to God. The ideas that make up Catholic Anthropology are also deeply foundational to the set of ideas known collectively as Western Civilization and, through them, to the ideas that together I call the American Covenant. This study takes a foundational approach. While the empirical studies have measured the effects of Catholic schools in making good American citizens, I explore the reasons for this outcome. In doing so, I draw from many disciplines to examine the historical events, significant persons, and philosophical and theological arguments that together have created the American Catholic school. I conclude that if present trends in Catholic schooling continue, there is potentially a great loss to both American Catholicism and to the American republic.
Natasha Levinson (Advisor)
Averil McClelland (Committee Member)
Catherine Hackney (Committee Member)
213 p.
Education; Education History; Education Philosophy; Education Policy; Educational Theory
Catholic education; Catholic schools; Catholic school ethos; American Covenant; Catholic anthropology; history of Catholic education in America; citizenship; citizenship education; Catholicism and democracy; sacramental worldview; Catholic imagination

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  • Joy, R. (2018). The American Covenant, Catholic Anthropology and Educating for American Citizenship: The Importance of the Catholic School Ethos. Or, Four Men in a Bateau [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent153322047768821

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Joy, Ruth. The American Covenant, Catholic Anthropology and Educating for American Citizenship: The Importance of the Catholic School Ethos. Or, Four Men in a Bateau. 2018. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent153322047768821.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Joy, Ruth. "The American Covenant, Catholic Anthropology and Educating for American Citizenship: The Importance of the Catholic School Ethos. Or, Four Men in a Bateau." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent153322047768821

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