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1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index. |
| Contents |
Civic education and religious schools: The civic case against religious schools -- Civic education and the autonomy problem in political liberalism -- Autonomy as a public value: Autonomy, identity and choice -- The value of autonomy in a pluralist world -- Autonomy as a goal of education policy: objections and responses -- Religious schools and education for autonomy: Secular public schools: critiques and responses -- Religious secondary schools as threat to autonomy? -- The role of religious primary schools. |
| Summary |
Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools? Should it fund them? What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked by religious and cultural pluralism? In Faith in Schools?, Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions through both political and educational theory, and he reaches some surprising and provocative conclusions. MacMullen argues that parents' desires to educate their children "in the faith" must not be allowed to deny children the opportunity for ongoing rational reflection about their values. Government should safeguard children's interests in de. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Church schools -- Government policy.
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Church schools. |
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Government policy. |
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Church and education -- Philosophy.
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Church and education. |
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Philosophy. |
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Education and state -- Philosophy.
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Education and state -- Philosophy. |
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Education and state. |
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JSTOR-DDA |
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Church schools Government policy |
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Church and education Philosophy |
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Education and state Philosophy |
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Multi-User. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state |
| Other Form: |
Print version: MacMullen, Ian, 1976- Faith in schools?. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691130910 0691130914 (DLC) 2006039724 (OCoLC)76864434 |
| ISBN |
9781400828111 (electronic book) |
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1400828112 (electronic book) |
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1282087010 |
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9781282087019 |
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9780691130910 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0691130914 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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