Selling the dream: marketing an education
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Article Title | Selling the dream: marketing an education |
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ERA Journal ID | 39917 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Kerby, Martin |
Editors | Danaher, Patrick, O'Neill, Shirley and Son, Jeong-Bae |
Journal Title | International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning |
Journal Citation | 8 (1), pp. 10-17 |
Number of Pages | 8 |
Year | 2013 |
Place of Publication | Toowoomba, Australia |
ISSN | 1833-4105 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.5172/ijpl.2013.8.1.10 |
Web Address (URL) | http://jpl.e-contentmanagement.com/archives/vol/8/issue/1/marketing/ |
Abstract | The purpose of this paper is to investigate the manner in which a Christian Brothers boarding school, founded in 1891 as an altruistic response to the socio/economic distress of Queensland's Irish Catholics, undertakes the marketing of its educational product in a contemporary setting. St Joseph's Nudgee College has displayed a remarkable capacity for compromise, balancing from its first year of operation the philosophical heritage of Irish Catholicism with the pragmatic aim of promoting social mobility amongst a group conscious of its outsider status. It is this inheritance of compromise that has ensured that there has been no perception that marketing an education in a religious institution raises any ethical dilemmas. This is even more remarkable given the evolution of the College into one of the State's elite educational institutions, yet one still publically committed to education serving as an agent of social change. The challenge for the Development and Communications Department of the College is far more pedestrian than a clash of world views. For they operate in a milieu divorced from the traditional core business of the College and must therefore operate as promoters rather than producers of the institution's core product of teaching. |
Keywords | boarding school; Christian Brothers; Irish catholics; marketing; religion; pragmatism; promotion |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 350602. Consumer-oriented product or service development |
390203. Sociology of education | |
500405. Religion, society and culture | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Education |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q1y12/selling-the-dream-marketing-an-education
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