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Faith in schools? [electronic resource] : autonomy, citizenship, and religious education in the liberal state / Ian MacMullen.

By: MacMullen, Ian, 1976-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007Description: x, 230 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Church schools -- Government policy | Church and education -- Philosophy | Education and state -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 371.071 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Civic education and religious schools: The civic case against religious schools -- Civic education and the autonomy problem in political liberalism -- Autonomy as a public value: Autonomy, identity and choice -- The value of autonomy in a pluralist world -- Autonomy as a goal of education policy: objections and responses -- Religious schools and education for autonomy: Secular public schools: critiques and responses -- Religious secondary schools as threat to autonomy? -- The role of religious primary schools.

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-226) and index.

Civic education and religious schools: The civic case against religious schools -- Civic education and the autonomy problem in political liberalism -- Autonomy as a public value: Autonomy, identity and choice -- The value of autonomy in a pluralist world -- Autonomy as a goal of education policy: objections and responses -- Religious schools and education for autonomy: Secular public schools: critiques and responses -- Religious secondary schools as threat to autonomy? -- The role of religious primary schools.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.