Challenging Catholic School Resistance to GSAs with a Revised Conception of Scandal and a Critique of Perceived Threat
Educational leaders in Ontario’s publicly-funded Catholic schools typically resist establishing Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) on grounds that they contradict Catholic moral teaching and so cause scandal in the school. While the protection of GSAs in these schools is derived from recent provincial le...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::d03e03735828503e8f234968171cbf6c 2023-05-15T16:55:15+02:00 Challenging Catholic School Resistance to GSAs with a Revised Conception of Scandal and a Critique of Perceived Threat Matrim, Jair 2022-07-05 https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071469ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071572ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071464ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071571ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071463ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071467ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071465ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071461ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071570ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071456ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071466ar en eng Canadian Philosophy of Education Society https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071469ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071572ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071464ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071571ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071463ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071467ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071465ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071461ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071570ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071456ar https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1071466ar undefined oai:erudit.org:1071469ar oai:erudit.org:1071572ar oai:erudit.org:1071464ar oai:erudit.org:1071571ar oai:erudit.org:1071463ar oai:erudit.org:1071467ar oai:erudit.org:1071465ar oai:erudit.org:1071461ar oai:erudit.org:1071570ar oai:erudit.org:1071456ar oai:erudit.org:1071466ar 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Culturally sustaining education Inuit worldview/philosophy phil relig Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2022 fttriple 2023-01-22T16:59:02Z Educational leaders in Ontario’s publicly-funded Catholic schools typically resist establishing Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) on grounds that they contradict Catholic moral teaching and so cause scandal in the school. While the protection of GSAs in these schools is derived from recent provincial legislation, the government intervention has the potential to exacerbate religious-secular tensions in the school and society. This paper assumes that, in the Catholic Church’s current political climate, the only justifications for GSAs that will gain genuine traction and possibly deflate this tension descend from within Catholicism’s own tradition of thought and educational practice. The first part of the argument critiques the Catholic hierarchy’s traditional, narrow conception of scandal, and replaces it with a revised, broader conception from within Catholic theology in which the traditional marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students is the true scandal. These two frameworks are used to analyze inconsistencies between the resistance Catholic schools show toward LGBTQ students wanting to establish GSAs, and the welcoming attitude they display toward pregnant and parenting students. The second part of the argument reveals that the main reason for this difference is that Church officials perceive all LGBTQ organizations as threats to their authority, and this perception is extended to GSAs. This internal critique provides sufficient reason to reverse the current negative Catholic evaluations of GSAs. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Unknown |
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Educational leaders in Ontario’s publicly-funded Catholic schools typically resist establishing Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) on grounds that they contradict Catholic moral teaching and so cause scandal in the school. While the protection of GSAs in these schools is derived from recent provincial legislation, the government intervention has the potential to exacerbate religious-secular tensions in the school and society. This paper assumes that, in the Catholic Church’s current political climate, the only justifications for GSAs that will gain genuine traction and possibly deflate this tension descend from within Catholicism’s own tradition of thought and educational practice. The first part of the argument critiques the Catholic hierarchy’s traditional, narrow conception of scandal, and replaces it with a revised, broader conception from within Catholic theology in which the traditional marginalization of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) students is the true scandal. These two frameworks are used to analyze inconsistencies between the resistance Catholic schools show toward LGBTQ students wanting to establish GSAs, and the welcoming attitude they display toward pregnant and parenting students. The second part of the argument reveals that the main reason for this difference is that Church officials perceive all LGBTQ organizations as threats to their authority, and this perception is extended to GSAs. This internal critique provides sufficient reason to reverse the current negative Catholic evaluations of GSAs. |
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Challenging Catholic School Resistance to GSAs with a Revised Conception of Scandal and a Critique of Perceived Threat |
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