TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacMullen,Ian
TI  - Faith in schools?: autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state 
SN  - 9781400828111
AV  - LC368 .M33 2007eb
U1  - 371.071 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Church schools
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Church and education
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Education and state
KW  - EDUCATION
KW  - Organizations & Institutions
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Administration
KW  - General
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - fast
KW  - Godsdienstige opvoeding
KW  - gtt
KW  - Kerk en maatschappij
KW  - Politiek
KW  - JSTOR-DDA
KW  - Multi-User
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University; Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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