TY - JOUR
T1 - A new dawn for faith-based education? Opportunities for religious organisations in the UK's new school system
AU - Hand, M.
N1 - Copyright 2012 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2012/11
Y1 - 2012/11
N2 - The 'new school system' described in the Schools White Paper (DfE, 2010) presents religious organisations with two interesting opportunities. The first is an opportunity to play a significantly enhanced role in the management of faith-based schools. The second is an opportunity to rethink quite radically the content of their curricula. In this article I advance a proposal for the consideration of religious organisations: that they take up the opportunity to develop innovative, religiously distinctive curricula whilst eschewing the activity of confessional religious education. I show how non-confessional, faith-based curricula are possible and offer some suggestions about what they might include.
AB - The 'new school system' described in the Schools White Paper (DfE, 2010) presents religious organisations with two interesting opportunities. The first is an opportunity to play a significantly enhanced role in the management of faith-based schools. The second is an opportunity to rethink quite radically the content of their curricula. In this article I advance a proposal for the consideration of religious organisations: that they take up the opportunity to develop innovative, religiously distinctive curricula whilst eschewing the activity of confessional religious education. I show how non-confessional, faith-based curricula are possible and offer some suggestions about what they might include.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00878.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2012.00878.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84868328869
SN - 0309-8249
VL - 46
SP - 546
EP - 559
JO - Journal of Philosophy of Education
JF - Journal of Philosophy of Education
IS - 4
ER -