The Catholic Teacher

James D. Kirylo is Professor of Education at the University of South Carolina, USA. Among other books, he is the author of The Thoughtful Teacher: Making Connections with a Diverse Student Population (2021), editor of Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-author of Paulo Freire: His Faith, Spirituality, and Theology (2017), and author of Paulo Freire: The Man from Recife (2011).

Foreword, Peter Mayo
Preface: The Autobiographical Lens Channeling this Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Know Your Ecclesial Foundation: Engaging with other Faith Traditions, Appreciating the Church’s Inclusive Umbrella, and Recognizing Teaching as a Vocation
1. The Emergence and Meaning of “Catholic” in the Catholic Church
2. That They All May be One: Ecumenical, Interfaith and Interreligious Dialogue
3. An Inclusive Umbrella That is the Church
4. Teaching as Vocation
Part II: Know What Informs You: Personalism, Social Teachings of the Church, Liberation Theology, and a Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
5. Looking Through a Personalist Lens
6. An Overview of the Social Teachings of the Church
7. An Organic Link to Liberation Theology
8. Enabling the Praxis of Liberation Theology
9. A Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
Part III: Know Your Positionality: Confronting a Pandemic, Gun Control, Right to Life, and Climate Change
10. The Courage to Take a Position
11. Covid-19 and a Peculiar Toxic Discourse
12. God, Guns, and Country
13. Preserving the Sacredness of Life
14. Climate Change and Ecological Conversion
Part IV: Know the Spirituality that Enlightens You
15. Grounded in a Contemplative Way of Being
Afterword, Merylann "Mimi" J. Schuttloffel
Appendix A: Two Major Splits in the Church
Appendix B: The Concept of Virtue
Appendix C: The Cardinal Virtues (and Eschatological Virtues)
Notes
References
Index