Church, State and Schools

ISBN-13: 9780415761758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str.

James Murphy

Opis

Originally published 1971, this volume unravels the complicated history of the religious question in British education. The background of the key Acts of Parliament which established the "dual" system - of Church and Local Authority school - is examined. The changing policies of different religious groupings are analyzed, and their outcome in legislation brought out.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The forces at work; Chapter 2 “United education” is an impossibility’; Chapter 3 ‘Progress by administration’; Chapter 4 The Elementary Education Act, 1870; Chapter 5 The Act in operation; Chapter 6 The Education Act, 1902; Chapter 7 Attemps to modify the ‘settlement’ of 1902; Chapter 8 The Education Act, 1944; Chapter 9 The end of ‘passionate intensity’?;

O autorze

James Murphy