From the website of the St. Andrew's Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education
We are delighted to announce the publication of 'Reclaiming the Piazza: Catholic Education as a Cultural Project' (Gracewing). Authored by Ronnie Convery, Leonardo Franchi, Raymond McCluskey and with an Afterword by Bob Davis, this volume takes a fresh look at the aims and purposes of Catholic education in a plural society. After a Foreword by Archbishop Philip Tartaglia of Glasgow, Chapter One explores some contemporary challenges to Catholic education. Chapter Two discusses education as process of cultural renewal. Chapter Three looks at the relationship between education and the media. Chapter Four sets the topic within the context of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Italy's innovative 'cultural project'. Chapter Five proposes some ways in which Catholic schools can be understood as a 'cultural project'. The Afterword by Bob Davis explores issues arising for Catholicism's encounter with modernity. There are two appendices: the complete text of the Educating to Intercultural Dialogue in Catholic Schools: Living in Harmong for a Civilisation of Love (Congregation for Catholic Education, 2013) and an address by Pope Francis to the Congregation for Catholic Education (2014).
The authors are all members of the St. Andrew's Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education at the University of Glasgow. The book will launched on September 19 2014 at a conference on the New Evangelisation in Vatican City.
