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Autor/in | Holmes, Mark |
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Titel | The place of religion in public education. |
Quelle | In: Interchange, (1993) 3, S.205-223Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0020-5230 |
DOI | 10.1007/BF01434772 |
Schlagwörter | Religious education; Christianity; Publicly funded education; School choice; Dogma—religious and secular; Secular education; Non-falsifiable propositions; Lowdoctrine schools |
Abstract | Abstract There is a legitimate place for genuine religious education within publicly supported schools in western pluralist democracies. The idea of the single common school is dead or dying in the densely populated parts of the western, English-speaking democracies. Once choice of school is conceded, then the religious school should be a central offering. Religion has a traditional place in most western democracies, eitherde jure orde facto. Further, there is evidence that religious adolescents make at least as good, and probably better, citizens than do those without religion. Finally, the idea of a consensually acceptable secular alternative based on high moral values is no longer tenable. Anything approaching a common school must be bound by minimal values not a high-level set, because there is simply no large set that is universally acceptable and agreed upon. In practice, urban, public schools serving heterogeneous clients rely heavily on exactly such a minimal set. |
Erfasst von | OLC |
Update | 2023/2/05 |