Public Education And Religion

Author : Charles Russo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000435283

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Law, Education, and the Place of Religion in Public Schools by Charles Russo Pdf

This text presents a comparative, cross-cultural analysis of the legal status of religion in public education in eighteen different nations while offering recommendations for the future improvement of religious education in public schools. Offering rich, analytical insights from a range of renowned scholars with expertise in law, education, and religion, this volume provides detailed consideration of legal complexities impacting the place of religion and religious education in public education. The volume pays attention to issues of national and international relevance including the separation of the church and state; public funding of religious education; the accommodation of students’ devotional needs; and compulsory religious education. The volume thus highlights the increasingly complex interplay of religion, law, and education in diverse educational settings and cultures across developing and developed nations. Providing a valuable contribution to the field of religious secondary education research, this volume will be of interest to researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in religion and law, international and comparative education, and those involved with educational policy at all levels. Those more broadly interested in moral and values education will also benefit from the discussions the book contains.

Author : Warren A. Nord
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015026926298

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Religion & American Education by Warren A. Nord Pdf

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 : Emile Lester
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472117642

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Teaching about Religions by Emile Lester Pdf

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Author : Michael D. Waggoner
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475801637

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Religion in the Public Schools by Michael D. Waggoner Pdf

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the complexity of the social, cultural, and legal milieu of schooling in the United States in which the improvement of religious literacy and understanding must take place. Public education is the new commons.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Church and state
ISBN : OSU:32435071176663

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Religious Expression in Public Schools by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles C. Haynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0879861134

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Teaching about Religion in the Social Studies Classroom by Charles C. Haynes Pdf

Author : Ilana M. Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197534144

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God, Grades, and Graduation by Ilana M. Horwitz Pdf

"It's widely acknowledged that American parents from different class backgrounds take different approaches to raising their children. Upper and middle-class parents invest considerable time facilitating their children's activities, while working class and poor families take a more hands-off approach. These different strategies influence how children approach school. But missing from the discussion is the fact that millions of parents on both sides of the class divide are raising their children to listen to God. What impact does a religious upbringing have on their academic trajectories? Drawing on 10 years of survey data with over 3,000 teenagers and over 200 interviews, God, Grades, and Graduation (GGG) offers a revealing and at times surprising account of how teenagers' religious upbringing influences their educational pathways from high school to college. GGG introduces readers to a childrearing logic that cuts across social class groups and accounts for Americans' deep relationship with God: religious restraint. This book takes us inside the lives of these teenagers to discover why they achieve higher grades than their peers, why they are more likely to graduate from college, and why boys from lower middle-class families particularly benefit from religious restraint. But readers also learn how for middle-upper class kids--and for girls especially--religious restraint recalibrates their academic ambitions after graduation, leading them to question the value of attending a selective college despite their stellar grades in high school. By illuminating the far-reaching effects of the childrearing logic of religious restraint, GGG offers a compelling new narrative about the role of religion in academic outcomes and educational inequality"--

Author : Linda K. Wertheimer
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807055274

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Faith Ed by Linda K. Wertheimer Pdf

An intimate cross-country look at the new debate over religion in the public schools A suburban Boston school unwittingly started a firestorm of controversy over a sixth-grade field trip. The class was visiting a mosque to learn about world religions when a handful of boys, unnoticed by their teachers, joined the line of worshippers and acted out the motions of the Muslim call to prayer. A video of the prayer went viral with the title “Wellesley, Massachusetts Public School Students Learn to Pray to Allah.” Charges flew that the school exposed the children to Muslims who intended to convert American schoolchildren. Wellesley school officials defended the course, but also acknowledged the delicate dance teachers must perform when dealing with religion in the classroom. Courts long ago banned public school teachers from preaching of any kind. But the question remains: How much should schools teach about the world’s religions? Answering that question in recent decades has pitted schools against their communities. Veteran education journalist Linda K. Wertheimer spent months with that class, and traveled to other communities around the nation, listening to voices on all sides of the controversy, including those of clergy, teachers, children, and parents who are Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, or atheist. In Lumberton, Texas, nearly a hundred people filled a school-board meeting to protest a teacher’s dress-up exercise that allowed freshman girls to try on a burka as part of a lesson on Islam. In Wichita, Kansas, a Messianic Jewish family’s opposition to a bulletin-board display about Islam in an elementary school led to such upheaval that the school had to hire extra security. Across the country, parents have requested that their children be excused from lessons on Hinduism and Judaism out of fear they will shy away from their own faiths. But in Modesto, a city in the heart of California’s Bible Belt, teachers have avoided problems since 2000, when the school system began requiring all high school freshmen to take a world religions course. Students receive comprehensive lessons on the three major world religions, as well as on Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and often Shintoism, Taoism, and Confucianism. One Pentecostal Christian girl, terrified by “idols,” including a six-inch gold Buddha, learned to be comfortable with other students’ beliefs. Wertheimer’s fascinating investigation, which includes a return to her rural Ohio school, which once ran weekly Christian Bible classes, reveals a public education system struggling to find the right path forward and offers a promising roadmap for raising a new generation of religiously literate Americans.

Author : Steven Paul Jones,Eric C. Sheffield
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 1433107643

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The Role of Religion in 21st-century Public Schools by Steven Paul Jones,Eric C. Sheffield Pdf

The fight over the role of religion in public schools is far from finished, and the last and final words have not been written. This collection of original essays reveals and updates the battlefield. Included are essays on school prayer, the evolution/intelligent design debate, public funding of religious groups on university campuses, religious themes in school-taught literature, and more. With diverse tones and points of view, these essays offer quality scholarship while revealing and honoring the heat these themes generate.

Author : Kent Greenawalt
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400826278

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Does God Belong in Public Schools? by Kent Greenawalt Pdf

Controversial Supreme Court decisions have barred organized school prayer, but neither the Court nor public policy exclude religion from schools altogether. In this book, one of America's leading constitutional scholars asks what role religion ought to play in public schools. Kent Greenawalt explores many of the most divisive issues in educational debate, including teaching about the origins of life, sex education, and when--or whether--students can opt out of school activities for religious reasons. Using these and other case studies, Greenawalt considers how to balance the country's constitutional commitment to personal freedoms and to the separation of church and state with the vital role that religion has always played in American society. Do we risk distorting students' understanding of America's past and present by ignoring religion in public-school curricula? When does teaching about religion cross the line into the promotion of religion? Tracing the historical development of religion within public schools and considering every major Supreme Court case, Greenawalt concludes that the bans on school prayer and the teaching of creationism are justified, and that the court should more closely examine such activities as the singing of religious songs and student papers on religious topics. He also argues that students ought to be taught more about religion--both its contributions and shortcomings--especially in courses in history. To do otherwise, he writes, is to present a seriously distorted picture of society and indirectly to be other than neutral in presenting secularism and religion. Written with exemplary clarity and even-handedness, this is a major book about some of the most pressing and contentious issues in educational policy and constitutional law today.

Author : Candy Gunther Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469648491

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Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools by Candy Gunther Brown Pdf

Yoga and mindfulness activities, with roots in Asian traditions such as Hinduism or Buddhism, have been brought into growing numbers of public schools since the 1970s. While they are commonly assumed to be secular educational tools, Candy Gunther Brown asks whether religion is truly left out of the equation in the context of public-school curricula. An expert witness in four legal challenges, Brown scrutinized unpublished trial records, informant interviews, and legal precedents, as well as insider documents, some revealing promoters of "Vedic victory" or "stealth Buddhism" for public-school children. The legal challenges are fruitful cases for Brown's analysis of the concepts of religious and secular. While notions of what makes something religious or secular are crucial to those who study religion, they have special significance in the realm of public and legal norms. They affect how people experience their lives, raise their children, and navigate educational systems. The question of religion in public education, Brown shows, is no longer a matter of jurisprudence focused largely on the establishment of a Protestant Bible or nonsectarian prayer. Instead, it now reflects an increasingly diverse American religious landscape. Reconceptualizing secularization as transparency and religious voluntarism, Brown argues for an opt-in model for public-school programs.

Author : James W. Fraser
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0312233396

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Between Church and State by James W. Fraser Pdf

Today, the ongoing battle between religion and public education is once again a burning issue in the United States. Prayer in the classroom, the teaching of creationism, the representation of sexuality in the classroom, and the teaching of morals are just a few of the subjects over which these institutions are skirmishing. James Fraser shows that though these battles have been going on for as long as there have been public schools, there has never been any consensus about the proper relationship between religion and public education. Looking at the most difficult question of how private issues of faith can be reconciled with the very public nature of schooling, Fraser paints a picture of our multicultural society that takes our relationship with God into account.

Author : Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135629373

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Religion and Schooling in Contemporary America by Thomas C. Hunt,James C. Carper Pdf

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 : Marc D. Stern
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02
Category : Religion in the public schools
ISBN : 9780788136214

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Religion and the Public Schools by Marc D. Stern Pdf

Explains what the law is on common religious liberty and church-state questions in the public school context. Covers: prayer in the schools; teaching about religion; use of classroom space for student-initiated religious activities; holiday observances; released time programs; physical facilities; dual enrollment; distribution of Gideon bibles or religious literature; scientific creationism; curriculum content; secular humanism; compulsory attendance and religious holidays; dress codes; vaccination requirements; and teachers' rights and responsibilities.

Author : David E. Engel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Public schools
ISBN : UCSC:32106005081762

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Religion in Public Education by David E. Engel Pdf