The purpose of this study was to determine the status of art education in Catholic secondary schools. Studied were:(1) historic status of the schools and attention to separate schools for boys and girls;(2) specific factors for comparison with findings of the 1963 NEA survey of music and art in the public schools;(3) the extent of shared time art programs; (4) obstacles to art programs; (5) the extent of humanities courses.A questionnaire modelled on the 1963 NEA survey incorporated features specific to the Catholic schools. It was sent to 486 Catholic secondary schools in a saturation survey of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky--states selected for their historic associations and concentration in them of a Catholic population and a Catholic school population proportionate to that of the nation at large.Results were based on a usable net response of 382-(78.60 percent) which was 80.93 percent of 472 schools continuing operation in September, 1969.Results corresponded roughly to those of the 1963 PLEA survey although there were basic differences in composition by type, organization, and size of schools.Of schools responding 13.09 percent offered no art. Art departments existed in 76.70 percent. Another 10.31 percent provided opportunity for shared time classes. Some of these supplemented their own offerings with shared time classes. This percentage of schools offering art far surpassed the 53.6 percent of all public schools offering art in the 1963 survey, but it was only one percent higher than the 74.7 percent offering art in public senior high schools whose composition was nearest that of Catholic secondary schools.Percent of art enrollment to total enrollment in Catholic secondary schools was close to that of public schools in the 1963 survey. The 14.63 percent was only .57 percent below 15.2 percent enrollment in senior public high schools. Art enrollments in Catholic schools showed strong influence from separate schools for boys and girls. Girls' and coed schools accounted for the 60.44 percent of small schools which offered art. All large schools not offering art were boys' schools.Strong evidence of a continuing tradition of art education was shown by the high percentage of girls' schools (92.74 percent) with art departments. An interesting feature of the boys' schools was the number of them (55.26 percent) which had introduced art within the past decade. The past two years had seen others taking advantage of art classes in nearby girls' schools.Art curricula followed much the same generalized pattern as public schools with little opportunity for specialization. Less than three percent of the schools required art above grade nine.Preparation of teachers was generally adequate, and percentage of art teachers to average number of teachers per school compared well with percentages in senior public high schools.Lack of personnel ranked first in causes of schools dropping art. Finances ranked first in obstacles toward schools introducing art programs. A crowded academic schedule was the first obstacle in schools which had art programs. Lack of space and finances followed. Almost89 percent of the schools charged for or had students purchase art supplies beyond tuition. Forty-one percent of the schools required an additional studio fee.Humanities programs which included visual arts were reported by 35.08 percent of schools. Another 7.9 percent offered humanities courses which did not include visual arts. Courses were not generally restricted to an intellectually elite; but many encompassed music and art alone, and time allotted them was limited.

Abstract In 1995 the Prime Minister of Australia, the honourable Paul Keating, on the occasion of the Beatification of Mary MacKillop, January 1995, claimed that 'Women have been a defining force in our [Australian] economic and social development and our national character...In honouring Mary MacKillop [Pope John Paul II] has honoured all Australian women. Keating went on to point out that Mary MacKillop's 'sympathies were with the underdogs of society, the people on the margins' and that she 'created the congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph to spread and maintain her vision'. This thesis explores the evolution of the vision and values of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart and its contribution to Catholic education in Queensland during the years 1870 to 1970. During this period the institute gained official recognition within the Catholic Church, established an innovative vision and method of Catholic education for the working class and clarified for its memebers the style of spirituality that was to underpin their lives. The main contention of the thesis is that this Australian institute of women religious can claim a place not only in religious history but also in the secular history of Australia. The influence of the Josephites can be found in community history, education history and the history of women, but as Keating stated: 'Their contribution has not always been acknowledged'. The Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart,one of the first institutes of women religious founded in Australia, was invited to Queensland in 1869 by Bishop James Quinn, the first Catholic bishop of Brisbane. At the time of the foundation of the institute in 1866, there was growing support within Australia for liberal democracy and state-controlled, general secular education. The founders of the institute, Mary MacKillop and Julian Tenison Woods fashioned the Josephites to meet the Catholic educational needs of the working class in the rural townships and in the poorer sections of the cities. In the parish schools the Sisters of St Joseph offered the children an education that gave a priority to the practical, sought to situate the subject matter within an Australian context and integrated the religious and the secular. The egalitarianism that they fostered in the organisation of their schools had become by 1920, the model for the organisation of the Catholic parish schools in Queensland. When the government withdrew its support for some Catholic parish schools in the colony during the 1870s, the Sisters of St Joseph, supported by the generosity of the laity, proved that it was possible for these schools to continue. By 1970 the Josephites had opened 69 Catholic parish schools in the state. This thesis is the first to use the many archival documents in a research that covers the period 1870 to 1970 in the history of the Sisters of St Joseph in Queensland. Historians have attempted to throw light on the tangle of issues that influenced the dramatic event, the total withdrawal of the Sisters of St Joseph from Queensland after ten years of productive ministry during the period 1870-1880, but no study has been made into the subsequent history of the institute in Queensland. In the period under discussion women were beginning to claim a place of equality in society. Mary MacKillop, in her manner of claiming the rights of the Josephites, offered a role model to the women in the institute she founded. In turn the Sisters of St Joseph showed other women the effectiveness of collaborative effort. The history of the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph in Queensland shows the strengths and weaknesses of this community of women, described by MacKillop as 'courageous, cheerful, very hopeful and not easily disheartened', as they endeavoured to espouse her vision and values in their lifestyle and apostolate.

Thesis (M.Ed.) -- University of Adelaide, Dept. of Education, 2000. / Bibliography: leaves 179-190.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1930. / At head of title: The Catholic university of America. "The [ecclesiastical] province of San Antonio comprises the whole state of Texas, with the exception of El Paso County, and the state of Oklahoma."--P. 1. Bibliography: p. 93-94.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1932. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Vita. Bibliography: p. 61-62.

Thesis--Catholic University of America. / Bibliography: p. 156-164.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1943. / Bibliography: p. 277-290.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1930. / At head of title: The Catholic university of America. "The [ecclesiastical] province of San Antonio comprises the whole state of Texas, with the exception of El Paso County, and the state of Oklahoma."--P. 1. Bibliography: p. 93-94.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1932. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Vita. Bibliography: p. 61-62.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1933. / At head of title: The Catholic University of America. Vita. Bibliography: p. 129-138.