Secularism in American Education: Its History
Author: Burton Confrey
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 404
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Author: Burton Confrey
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 404
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Published: 1931
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warren A. Nord
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13: 1469617455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.
Author: C. John Sommerville
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-06-29
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780195306958
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Author: Samuel Windsor Brown
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2016-12-23
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 9781334752315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Secularization of American Education, as Shown by State Legislation, State Constitutional Provisions and State Supreme Court Decisions For somewhat over a century there has been going on in the United States a gradual but widespread elimination of religious and church in uences from public education. During the early years of our history, especially during the colonial period, educa tion and religion, the school and the church, were close allies. One of the aims of elementary education was to inculcate religious beliefs; of higher education, to prepare religious teachers. The subject matter of instruction was largely religious in its nature. Church authorities exercised considerable control over educational affairs. The warmest advocates of education were those who had in view the needs of the church. Today we find in every state a system of public education in which civic and industrial aims are dominant, in which religious instruction is either entirely eliminated or else reduced to the barest and most formal elements, and the control of which is vested well nigh exclusively in the state or some sub-division thereof. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author: Samuel Windsor Brown
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 174
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Published: 1906
Total Pages: 112
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780404550493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon H. Roberts
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000-03-26
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0691015562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis secularization has long been recognized as a decisive turning point in the history of American education. John Roberts and James Turner identify the forces and explain the events that reformed the college curriculum during this era.".
Author: Christopher Cameron
Publisher: Critical Insurgencies
Published: 2019-09-15
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780810140790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBlack Freethinkers is the first study to offer a comprehensive historical treatment of African American freethought (including atheism, agnosticism, and secular humanism) from the nineteenth century to the present.