Building a Nation: Religion and Values in the Public Schools of the USA, Australia, and South Africa

Autor/inn/en	Mawdsley, Ralph D.; Cumming, Jacqueline Joy; de Waal, Elda
Titel	Building a Nation: Religion and Values in the Public Schools of the USA, Australia, and South Africa
Quelle	In: Education and the Law, 20 (2008) 2, S.83-106 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0953-9964
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Role of Religion; Private Education; Public Schools; Racial Segregation; Moral Values; School Law; Court Litigation; State Church Separation; Constitutional Law; Educational Legislation; Civil Rights Legislation; Comparative Education; International Education; Educational Policy; Australia; South Africa; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Privatunterricht; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Rassentrennung; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Rechtsstreit; Kirche-Staat-Beziehung; Staatsrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Private law; Bürgerliches Recht; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Internationale Erziehung; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Australien; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik; USA
Abstract	Although the systems of public schools differ among Australia, South Africa and the USA, all three countries recognize that religion plays a significant role in determining values. All three countries have written constitutions but only South Africa and the USA have a Bill of Rights that protects persons' exercise of religious beliefs. In Australia, the place of religion in education has largely been shaped by state legislatures, administrative regulations and interpretations of the national constitution. In the USA, the long tradition of religious values being represented in public education has been severely restricted over the past 60 years, resulting in artificial judicial lines being drawn between private religious expression and government expression. However, even private expression can be prohibited if it interferes with the educational mission of a school. South Africa had a long tradition of Christian religious practices in government schools under apartheid. However, the post-apartheid 1996 Constitution and 1996 South African Schools Act still give these schools considerable latitude in investing religious values into the educational process. In Australia, values, religion and education have always been a preoccupation of those providing education, although the blurring of public and private education in Australia has resulted in a different direction for the role of religion than in the USA. (Contains 157 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10