Friday 6th October 2017
4-5.30pm
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW
Venue: MAIN BUILDING
(Humanities Lecture Theatre 255)
‘PUBLIC AND CATHOLIC’
THE 1918 EDUCATION (SCOTLAND) ACT AND THE IDENTITY OF CATHOLIC SCHOOLS
lecture given by
Professor James Arthur
University of Birmingham
The lecture will explore the public nature of Catholic schooling in Scotland. It will examine how a school can be Catholic in its self-understanding and Catholic in its public identity.
James Arthur is Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Staffing and Professor of Education and Civic Engagement at the University of Birmingham. He is Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues. He is the leading academic in the UK on character education, and on policy entrepreneurship in education. James Arthur is one of the world’s major authorities on Catholic Education. His book, The Ebbing Tide, remains a landmark publication in the study of Catholic schools and their relationship with modernity. James Arthur is an Honorary Professor of the School of Education at the University of Glasgow and is a former Cardinal Winning Lecturer
For catering purposes please register for this event by emailing Arlene Burns: Arlene.Burns@glasgow.ac.uk