Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict?

• Editor: Roy Gardner, Jo Cairns & Denis Lawton
  
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (2005)
• Language: English
• Pages: 292
• eISBN-10: 0203416104 (0415335264)
  
• eISBN-13: 9780203416105
• Format: PDF

Is there a role for faith schools in modern society? For more than a century the English education system has included schools supported by faith communities. That consensus is now under challenge and the recent desire to expand such schools has raised the question of their appropriateness in the plural and diverse society of today. There are strong lobbies to support both further expansion and dilute their membership by ensuring they include children from other faiths or no faith at all. This book is intended to address the current concerns, questions and interest surrounding the legitimacy, support and intended expansion of faith schools. Divided into five sections, the book includes chapters on:

• The legal frameworks for faith schools and the rights of the child;
• Faith-based schools in the UK, Northern Ireland, France and the USA;
• The impact of faith schools on pupil performance;
• Faith schools, religious education and citizenship;
• Political and research issues.

Faith Schools: Consensus or Conflict? will be of interest to educators, policy makers, researchers and students of education, religion and sociology.