The existence of state-supported Catholic and other faith-based schools in the UK has become a matter of controversy in recent years, as the previously tolerant acceptance of their role in the English educational system has come under attack.This book seeks to explain to both proponents and sceptics of religiously based educational provision how the maintained Catholic sector originated, what it seeks to do and its contribution to society. It describes the Church's understanding of the primacy of parents in the education of their children and the limits of the state's legitimate role.The book will be of value to anyone interested in understanding Catholic schools, those who send their children to them, and those who are working and teaching in them or aspire to do so.
Now retired, Andrew B. Morris has been involved in Catholic education for over forty years in a variety of teaching, leadership, administrative, research and governance roles. He was Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Christian Education at Liverpool Hope University until 2012, before being appointed Director of Research at the Maryvale Catholic Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Birmingham. In addition to twenty-eight articles published in academic journals, he has written and edited nine volumes on aspects of Catholic education, as well as six entries in the Encyclopedia of Christian Education (2015).
