Teaching or preaching — Max Charlesworth and religious education
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01/12/2012
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In this essay I elaborate on the theoretical framework – that of Millian liberalism – that Max Charlesworth brought to many public issues, including that of the relation between education and religion. I will then apply this framework to a debate in which I have been recently involved myself: a debate around the provision of religious instruction in public schools. In the first section I expound Charlesworth’s rejection of secularism in education in a liberal pluralist state and his defence of faith-based schooling. In the second section I uncover the religious motivations behind the Victorian government’s 1950 amendments to the apparently secularist Victorian Education Act of 1872. In section three, I explore the notion of secularism more fully and suggest that the struggle between those who espouse religious instruction in state schools and those who oppose it while advocating a more general form of education about religion is a symptom of a deeper tension between liberalism and communitarianism within the culture of modernist, liberal states. |
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eng |
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Springer Netherlands |
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http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30050390/vanhooft-teachingor-2012.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0332-2 |
Palavras-Chave | #education #religion #Max Charlesworth #liberalism #secularism #pluralism #modernism |
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Journal Article |