Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict?Jo Cairns, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton 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 absorb 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 addresses the current concerns, questions and interest surrounding the legitimacy, support and intended expansion of faith schools. Divided into five sections, it includes chapters on: * the legal frameworks for faith schools and the rights of the child Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict? is of interest to educators, policymakers, researchers and students of education, religion and sociology. |
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Faith schools now an overview | 7 |
Faith schools and colleges of education since 1800 | 14 |
The legal framework for faithbased schools and the rights of the child | 36 |
Faith schools for and against | 49 |
Faith schools can they be justified? | 51 |
Are faith schools divisive? | 61 |
Through the looking glass religion identity and citizenship in a plural culture from the viewpoint of the modern Orthodox Jewish school | 138 |
Faith schools the experience elsewhere | 145 |
Measuring Catholic school performance an international perspective | 147 |
Faith schools and Northern Ireland a review of research | 156 |
Exclusion or embrace? Faith social ideals and common schooling in Americas public education | 166 |
Faith schools in France from conflict to consensus? | 178 |
Faith schools the way forward | 189 |
Faith schools and communities communitarianism social capital and citizenship | 191 |
Religion and schools a fresh way forward? A rightsbased approach to diversity in schools | 74 |
Faithbased schools in the United Kingdom an unenthusiastic defence of a slightly reformed status quo | 83 |
Keeping the faith with social capital from Coleman to New Labour on social justice religion and education | 90 |
Faith schools in practice | 103 |
Perceptions and practices of Christian schools | 105 |
Learning together the case for joint church schools | 113 |
Segregation or cohesion Church of England schools in Bradford | 122 |