The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools: A Critical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138569683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 182 str.

Richard Pring

Opis

The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued maintenance of faith-based schools within a publicly funded state system, providing a balanced synthesis of the different arguments surrounding faith schools.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Context  Chapter 1: Contemporary Political and Cultural Context  Chapter 2: Historical Background and the Current Position  Chapter 3: Making Sense of Facts and Figures  Chapter 4: International Perspective  Part 2: Religious Education  Chapter 5: Three Traditions  Chapter 6: Response to the Secular Age  Chapter 7: Religious Education: An Extended Vision  Chapter 8: Service to Society  Part 3: Key Issues Emerging: The Need for Philosophy  Chapter 9: Ethics: Education and its Aims  Chapter 10: Espitemology: Knowledge, Truth and Reason in Religious Education  Chapter 11: Civic Society: Common Good and Social Pluralism  Part 4: Drawing  Conclusions  Chapter 12: For or against Faith Schools? Finding an answer

O autorze

Richard Pring is Emeritus Professor of Education, and was formerly Director of Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, UK.