A Catholic curriculum for the twenty-first century?

What Are Catholic Schools Teaching to Make a Difference? A Literature Review of Curriculum Studies in Catholic Schools in the U.S. and the U.K. since 1993

“…This is one reason why curriculum integration is easier in primary schools than in secondary schools, where social demands over schooling make curricular reform very difficult. In this sense, R. Davis (1999Davis ( , 2013 was right when he pointed out that the recovery of a Catholic principle of curricular integration would highlight the countercultural values of Catholicism. To tackle this challenge, scholars should conduct more evaluations of curriculum integration experiences in Catholic schools, and look at other contemporary efforts for an integrated curriculum, such as the IB ( Jamison, 2013;White, 2012).…”

“…In a similar sense, Kallemeyn (2009) predicted that high-stakes testing would have a growing influence in U.S. Catholic schools because of parent pressures in the market educational environment. Robert Davis and Franchi (2013) proposed that societal changes due to globalization were also a possibility for Catholic curriculum theorists worldwide. They highlighted two trends.…”

“…Two of them came from the United States (Kallemeyn, 2009;White, 2012), and two came from the United Kingdom (Arthur, 2013;Davis, R., & Franchi, 2013). For Arthur (2013), the fact that English and Welsh Catholic school teachers learn fundamentally secular models of schooling meant a "de-Catholicising of the curriculum through a process of internal secularization" (p. 96).…”