A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in Scotland: New Perspectives

213 Pages·2019·1.964 MB·English

by  Stephen J. McKinney, Raymond McCluskey

A History of Catholic Education
and Schooling in Scotland
New Perspectives
Edited by
Stephen J. McKinney
Raymond McCluskey
A History of Catholic Education and Schooling in
Scotland
“The Education (Scotland) Act of 1918 has long suffered from undeserved
neglect in the historical literature. Its centenary has now at length prompted
fresh evaluation of this significant legislation in its broader social, religious and
political context. In this new collection of essays, a wide array of perspectives are
brought to bear, not only on the Act itself but also on its origins, implications
and longer-term effects. This history has been largely hidden from view partly
because of the dominance of the English tradition south of the border, but also
because of the nature of religious conflict within Scotland. In this volume, the
Catholic tradition in Scottish education is effectively unearthed and exhibited in
full public view.”
—Professor Gary McCulloch, Brian Simon Chair of History of Education, IOE,
University College London, UK
“Current issues in Catholic education cannot be properly understood without
an appreciation of the history behind them. This book admirably provides a
scholarly analysis of the key agents, contextual factors and principles at work in
Scotland before, during and after the 1918 Education Act. Unlike many other
studies, it weaves together legal, historical, social, educational and religious
angles of approach, offers fascinating, thought-provoking and sometimes sur-
prising insights and draws attention to neglected features of the history of
Catholic education in Scotland.”
—Professor Emeritus John Sullivan, Liverpool Hope University, UK
“This collection casts fresh and sober light on the historical roots and legacy
of a topic that is too often the subject of over-heated and uninformed contem-
porary debate. It is a contribution as much to the social and cultural history
of modern Scotland, generally, as it is to that of Scottish Catholic education
and features the most mature twenty-first century commentary and analysis
finely nuanced by the archives. This book is one that has appeared not before
time.”
—Professor Gerard Carruthers, Francis Hutcheson Professor of Scottish
Literature, University of Glasgow, UK
“As the field of Catholic Education Studies develops internationally it needs as
an academic foundation scholarly studies of the historical beginnings of Catholic
schooling in every nation. The book provides an excellent model for such stud-
ies, written in a scholarly, accessible, interesting and comprehensive way. It is to
be hoped that researchers and scholars in other nations will seek to emulate this
fine example.”
—Professor Gerald Grace, Editor of International Studies in Catholic
Education
Stephen J. McKinney
Raymond McCluskey
Editors
A History of Catholic
Education and
Schooling in Scotland
New Perspectives
Editors
Stephen J. McKinney Raymond McCluskey
School of Education Glasgow, UK
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-51369-4 ISBN 978-1-137-51370-0 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51370-0
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Stephen J. McKinney
This book is dedicated to my children Stephen Conor (aged 26) and Lucy
(aged 19)
Raymond McCluskey
This book is dedicated to the memory of my late father, Hugh
Contents
1 I ntroduction 1
Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey
2 T he Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, in Historical Context 13
Stephen J. McKinney and Raymond McCluskey
3 T he Distinctiveness of Catholic Schooling in the West of
Scotland Before the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918 43
Geraldine Vaughan
4 W omen Religious and the Development of Scottish
Education 61
S. Karly Kehoe
5 T he Role of Male Religious Orders in Education in
Scotland in the Decades Leading up to the Education
(Scotland) Act, 1918 81
Tom O’Donoghue
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6 The Role of Lay Women Teachers in Catholic Education
Before the Education (Scotland) Act, 1918 1 03
Jane McDermid
7 C atholic Education Beyond the School: Sodalities and
Public Lectures 125
Raymond McCluskey
8 T he Presbyterian Campaign (1923–1930) Against the
Education (Scotland) Act, 1918 149
Stephen J. McKinney
9 T he Education (Scotland) Act, 1918, Revisited: The Act
and Its Legal Implications 175
Mary McHugh
Index 201
Notes on Contributors
S.  Karly  Kehoe is Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada
Communities at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
and her specialism is religion, migration and minority identities in the
British Atlantic. She sits on the editorial boards of the Scottish Historical
Review and the Innes Review and is a member of both the Global Young
Academy and the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars,
Artists and Scientists.
Raymond McCluskey studied history at the University of Glasgow
before completing a DPhil at Balliol College, Oxford. He has recently
retired from a lectureship in the School of Education, University of
Glasgow. He is a past convener (president) of the Scottish Catholic
Historical Association and former secretary of the History of Education
(UK) Society.
Jane  McDermid is Emeritus Fellow in History at Southampton
University. She holds postgraduate degrees from Glasgow University and
the London Institute of Education. Her main research interests are in
British and Russian women’s history from the late eighteenth to the early
twentieth centuries. She is a member of the editorial board of the journal
History of Education and is on the international advisory board of the
Scottish Historical Review.
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Mary McHugh is a graduate in History, Politics and Law, from the
University of Strathclyde. She is an archivist of the RC Archdiocese of
Glasgow and a trustee and secretary of the Scottish Catholic Heritage
Collections Trust. McHugh lectured in church history at Chester College’s
inter-diocesan seminary, and then at Scotus College, the national semi-
nary in Scotland until its closure in 2009. Her publications include arti-
cles in Catholic Archives and the Innes Review. Her historical research
interests include the Catholic Union and the Eyre family.
Stephen  J.  McKinney is a professor in the School of Education,
University of Glasgow. His work has been published extensively on topics
such as Catholic schooling, faith schooling and the impact of poverty on
schooling. He is Visiting Professor of Catholic Education at Newman
University, an associate of the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies and on
the steering group for the Network for Researchers in Catholic Education.
Tom O’Donoghue is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of
Education, The University of Western Australia. He is also an elected fel-
low of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and The
Royal Historical Society (UK). He specialises in the history of education
in the English-speaking world, with particular reference to the history of
teachers and the process of education in faith-based schools.
Geraldine Vaughan is Senior Lecturer in British Modern History at the
English Studies Department, University of Rouen (Normandy—GRHis).
She has published a book titled, The ‘Local’ Irish in the West of Scotland,
1851–1921 (2013, Palgrave Macmillan). She is also a junior member of
the Institut Universitaire de France and is writing on anti-Catholic net-
works throughout the British Isles and Dominions in the late Victorian
and Edwardian eras.