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Mason, Andrew (2018) Faith schools and the cultivation of tolerance. Theory and Research in Education, 16 (2). pp. 204-225. doi:10.1177/1477878518779881 ISSN 1477-8785.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477878518779881
Abstract
Faith schools in England are often regarded as ill-suited to cultivating the abilities, attitudes, and dispositions required for living together harmoniously in an ethnically and religiously diverse society. These concerns might be formulated in terms of the thesis that faith schools in England are considerably suboptimal for the cultivation of civic virtues compared to the feasible nonfaith alternatives.
Focusing on one particular civic virtue, namely, tolerance, this article aims to assess thesis sub-optimality thesis. It identifies a range of factors that might be thought to affect whether a faith school provides an environment that is conducive to the cultivation of tolerance, and then considers the available evidence, both direct and indirect, that bears upon what effect these factors actually have. It argues that the evidence that is available gives insufficient support to the sub-optimality thesis, but it does provide a powerful case for regulating faith schools in various ways.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LC Special aspects of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Church schools -- England, Multiculturalism -- England, Toleration | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Theory and Research in Education | ||||||||
Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1477-8785 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 July 2018 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 16 | ||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 204-225 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1177/1477878518779881 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 25 April 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 25 April 2018 | ||||||||
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