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Education Reform: Confronting the Secular Ideal

Education Reform: Confronting the Secular Ideal

Engelhardt, Craig S.

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General Education

ISBN10: 1623963222
ISBN13: 9781623963224
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Apr 23 2013
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Education Reform proposes and defends an alternate paradigm of public education. It challenges 'secular education' as a failed educational model and proposes an alternate model with far-reaching potential. It reveals how secular schools have insufficient resources to support the public's educational interests while religious schools, within a plural public education system, have the superior capacity to nurture citizens with the moral, intellectual, and civic qualities of good citizenship. The fulcrum upon which Engelhardt's argument rests is the recognition that beliefs and values of a religious nature not only provide motivating frameworks for individual life, but also, they naturally provide core sources of meaning, understanding, and motivation for education efforts. Whereas secular schools avoid these ideological resources, they potentially suffuse the curriculum, climate, and community of 'religious' schools to increase their educational success. Thus, this book argues that the move to a plural public education system, in which families are free to choose either secular or publicly supportive 'religious' schools, will advance the educational interests of America.

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