Religion And Schooling In Contemporary America
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Author |
: Thomas C. Hunt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 248 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135629373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135629374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America by : Thomas C. Hunt
With articles dealing with denomination, law, public policy and financing this anthology grants an evenhanded view of the impact of religion on our nation's public schools.
Author |
: Warren A. Nord |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 512 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015026926298 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion & American Education by : Warren A. Nord
Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America--the proper place of religion in our public schools and universities. Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology and ethics.
Author |
: Warren A. Nord |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 502 |
Release |
: 2014-07-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469617459 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469617455 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Religion and American Education by : Warren A. Nord
Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.
Author |
: Benjamin Justice |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 189 |
Release |
: 2016-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226400594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022640059X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Have a Little Faith by : Benjamin Justice
It isn’t just in recent arguments over the teaching of intelligent design or reciting the pledge of allegiance that religion and education have butted heads: since their beginnings nearly two centuries ago, public schools have been embroiled in heated controversies over religion’s place in the education system of a pluralistic nation. In this book, Benjamin Justice and Colin Macleod take up this rich and significant history of conflict with renewed clarity and astonishing breadth. Moving from the American Revolution to the present—from the common schools of the nineteenth century to the charter schools of the twenty-first—they offer one of the most comprehensive assessments of religion and education in America that has ever been published. From Bible readings and school prayer to teaching evolution and cultivating religious tolerance, Justice and Macleod consider the key issues and colorful characters that have shaped the way American schools have attempted to negotiate religious pluralism in a politically legitimate fashion. While schools and educational policies have not always advanced tolerance and understanding, Justice and Macleod point to the many efforts Americans have made to find a place for religion in public schools that both acknowledges the importance of faith to so many citizens and respects democratic ideals that insist upon a reasonable separation of church and state. Finally, they apply the lessons of history and political philosophy to an analysis of three critical areas of religious controversy in public education today: student-led religious observances in extracurricular activities, the tensions between freedom of expression and the need for inclusive environments, and the shift from democratic control of schools to loosely regulated charter and voucher programs. Altogether Justice and Macleod show how the interpretation of educational history through the lens of contemporary democratic theory offers both a richer understanding of past disputes and new ways of addressing contemporary challenges.
Author |
: William Jeynes |
Publisher |
: IAP |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2007-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781607527312 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1607527316 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity, Education and Modern Society by : William Jeynes
The issues that these authors address in this book are some of the most salient in American society. It is imperative that Americans today address these issues and establish an appropriate world view. There is little question that how people resolve these issues will have a long-lasting impact on the future of civilization.
Author |
: Kevin J. Burke |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 163 |
Release |
: 2016-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317232476 |
ISBN-13 |
: 131723247X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christian Privilege in U.S. Education by : Kevin J. Burke
Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education, the authors challenge that religion is in fact absent from public education, suggesting instead that it is in fact very much embedded in current public educational practices and discourses and in a variety of assumptions and perspectives underlying understandings of teaching, learning, and teacher preparation. The book reframes the discussion about religion and schooling, arguing that it remains in the language and metaphors of education, in the practices and routines of schooling, in conceptions of the "’child" and the "teacher" (and what happens between them in the spaces we call "learning," the "classroom," and "curriculum") as well as in assumptions about the role of schools emanating from such conceptions and in the current movement toward accountability, standardization, and testing. Christian Privilege in U.S. Education examines not whether Christianity has a place in public education but, rather, the very ways in which it is pervasive in a legally secular system of education even when religion is not a topic taught in school.
Author |
: James W. Fraser |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2016-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421420592 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421420597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Between Church and State by : James W. Fraser
A fully updated second edition of this essential look at the continuing tensions between religion and American public schools. Today, the ongoing controversy about the place—or lack of place—of religion in public schools is a burning issue in the United States. Prayer at football games, creationism in the classroom, the teaching of religion and morals, and public funding for private religious schools are just a few of the subjects over which people are skirmishing. In Between Church and State, historian and pastor James W. Fraser shows that these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools and argues there has never been any consensus about what the “separation of church and state” means for American society or about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, Fraser’s classic book paints a complex picture of how a multicultural society struggles to take the deep commitments of people of faith into account—including people of many different faiths and no faith. In this fully updated second edition, Fraser tackles the culture wars, adding fresh material on current battles over public funding for private religious schools. He also addresses the development of the long-simmering evolution-creationism debate and explores the tensions surrounding a discussion of religion and the accommodation of an increasingly religiously diverse American student body. Between Church and State includes new scholarship on the role of Roger Williams and William Penn in developing early American conceptions of religious liberty. It traces the modern expansion of Catholic parochial schools and closely examines the passage of the First Amendment, changes in American Indian tribal education, the place of religion in Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois’s debates about African American schooling, and the rapid growth of Jewish day schools among a community previously known for its deep commitment to secular public education.
Author |
: Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 456 |
Release |
: 2017-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268101299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268101299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education by : Ann Mitsakos Bezzerides
Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim to reverse this trend by offering original insights from Orthodox Christian perspectives that contribute to the ongoing discussion about religion, higher education, and faith and learning in the United States. The book is divided into two parts. Essays in the first part explore the historical experiences and theological traditions that inform (and sometimes explain) Orthodox approaches to the topic of religion and higher education—in ways that often set them apart from their Protestant and Roman Catholic counterparts. Those in the second part problematize and reflect on Orthodox thought and practice from diverse disciplinary contexts in contemporary higher education. The contributors to this volume offer provocative insights into philosophical questions about the relevance and application of Orthodox ideas in the religious and secular academy, as well as cross-disciplinary treatments of Orthodoxy as an identity marker, pedagogical framework, and teaching and research subject.
Author |
: R. Murray Thomas |
Publisher |
: R & L Education |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1578866995 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781578866991 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis God in the Classroom by : R. Murray Thomas
Focuses on the seven major types of conflicts over the proper role of religion in schools that have become particularly confrontational during the first decade of the twenty-first century. The cases on which the chapters focus concern issues that currently are being hotly debated in America. Controversies are described in relation to their historical origins and the author shows how the history affects current understanding of the issues. Thomas does not take sides in the arguments; rather, he lays out the arguments, their historical and cultural contexts, and the groups that debate them and their goals. --From publisher description.
Author |
: Randall Balmer |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2005-11-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231507690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231507691 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Protestantism in America by : Randall Balmer
As America has become more pluralistic, Protestantism, with its long roots in American history and culture, has hardly remained static. This finely crafted portrait of a remarkably complex group of Christian denominations describes Protestantism's history, constituent subgroups and their activities, and the way in which its dialectic with American culture has shaped such facets of the wider society as healthcare, welfare, labor relations, gender roles, and political discourse. Part I provides an introduction to the religion's essential beliefs, a brief history, and a taxonomy of its primary American varieties. Part II shows the diversity of the tradition with vivid accounts of life and worship in a variety of mainline and evangelical churches. Part III explores the vexed relationship Protestantism maintains with critical social issues, including homosexuality, feminism, and social justice. The appendices include biographical sketches of notable Protestant leaders, a chronology, a glossary, and an annotated list of resources for further study.