Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict? - Softcover

Cairns, Jo; Gardner, Roy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415335264 ISBN 13: 9780415335263

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

Provides an accessible overview of the debates, issues and practicalities of faith-based education. It sets out the challenges and opportunities of different approaches to faith schools and addresses the choices faced by parents.

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Review:

'This is an important contribution. It issues its own challenges: to the faith providers to articulate both their own starting points, and the ways in which their distinctive contribution is beneficial for the state of the nation; and to opponents to provide hard evidence for what they most fear about faith schools.' - British Journal of Religious Education

'With the renewed interest, internationally, in the role of faith and the planned expansion in the United Kingdon of faith-based secondary schools, this collection of articles in timely.' - International Journal of Children's Spirituality

Synopsis:

Until fairly recently the separation of pupils according to religion was felt to be compatible with a comprehensive education. That consensus no longer holds and there is a strong positive lobby either to abandon 'faith schools' altogether within the state system or at least to dilute their membership ensuring they include children from other faiths, or no faith at all. This book is intended to address the current concerns, questions and interest surrounding the legitimacy, support and intended expansion of faith schools. Divided into five sections, the book includes chapters on: - the legal frameworks for faith schools and the rights of the child - faith-based schools in the UK, Northern Ireland, France and the USA - the impact of faith schools on pupil performance - faith schools, religious education and citizenship - political and research issues. "Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict? "will be of interest to educators, policy-makers, researchers and students of education, religion and sociology.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415335264
• ISBN 13: 9780415335263
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 284