Beschreibung:
The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued maintenance of faith-based schools within a publicly funded state system, providing a balanced synthesis of the different arguments surrounding faith schools.
Introduction Part 1: Context Chapter 1: Contemporary Political and Cultural Context Chapter 2: Historical Background and the Current Position Chapter 3: Making Sense of Facts and Figures Chapter 4: International Perspective Part 2: Religious Education Chapter 5: Three Traditions Chapter 6: Response to the Secular Age Chapter 7: Religious Education: An Extended Vision Chapter 8: Service to Society Part 3: Key Issues Emerging: The Need for Philosophy Chapter 9: Ethics: Education and its Aims Chapter 10: Espitemology: Knowledge, Truth and Reason in Religious Education Chapter 11: Civic Society: Common Good and Social Pluralism Part 4: Drawing Conclusions Chapter 12: For or against Faith Schools? Finding an answer