Date of Award

11-1-2013

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Organizational Unit

Morgridge College of Education

First Advisor

Kimberly Hartnett-Edwards, Ph.D.

Second Advisor

Richard Kitchen

Third Advisor

P. Bruce Uhrmacher

Keywords

Curriculum history, Theological field education, Historiography, Catholic curriculum guidelines

Abstract

This study presents a curriculum history of theological field education at Denver's Roman Catholic seminary, St. John Vianney. The study utilizes archival material and the historical method to construct an educational historiography of the evolution and development of theological field curricula from 1910-2010. The research questions focus on two areas: the role of the Catholic Church in shaping seminary curricula and the adaptation and application of these Church guidelines by practitioners in the local context.

The study utilizes the conceptual tools of Kelly Ritter (2009) to analyze the findings in the light of socio-historical forces which shape curricula. According to Ritter's conceptualization, socio-historical processes have a greater impact on curricula than “theoretical research-based arguments” (p. 19). The role of the Church in providing prescriptive guidelines for curricula in Catholic seminaries and the application and adaption of these prescriptions in the local context“opens the possibility of generating new conceptual frameworks” and “adds an important dimension to curriculum history” (Kliebard, 1992, p. xiii).

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by the author. User is responsible for all copyright compliance.

Rights Holder

Germaine M. Bruno

Provenance

Received from ProQuest

File Format

application/pdf

Language

en

File Size

187 p.

Discipline

Curriculum development, History of education

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