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9781840143218

Common Faith

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    9781840143218

  • ISBN10:

    1840143215

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-01-01
  • Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd
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Summary

This book provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the political and educational issues that are raised when spiritual development is regarded as a central educational aim. The author examines the meaning of spirituality in the educational context and provides a suitable educational characterization following a detailed critique of certain ideas put forward by John Dewey, Alistair MacIntyre and Charles Taylor. In the second part of the book the author examines various attempts to derive policies concerning the personal education of pupils from cultural and political claims. The educational implications of a wide range of political perspectives are explored, including those of liberalism, communitarianism, conservatizm and pluralism. Particular attention is given to the constraints imposed on educationalists by the liberalisms of John Rawls and Joseph Raz and, in the final part, the author questions whether any nationally common conception of spiritual education is either educationally adequate or politically acceptable.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. viii
Introductionp. 1
Spirituality, Religion and Educationp. 8
The political dimension and the spiritual dimensionp. 9
Distinctiveness, consensus and languagep. 13
Ofsted, signals of transcendence and religionp. 26
Transcendence, education and the importance of 'spirituality'p. 30
Agency, Experience and Common Spiritualityp. 39
Dewey, religion and religiosityp. 39
Beyond Dewey: religiosity and scientismp. 44
Beyond Dewey: instrumentalism and traditionp. 46
Towards a less partial account of human agencyp. 48
MacIntyre, Taylor and the importance of narrative unityp. 52
Taylor on agency, articulation and the inescapability of frameworksp. 56
Kekes, weak inescapability and pluralismp. 64
Agency, experience and a common conception of spiritualityp. 65
Culture, Politics and Educationp. 75
Introductionp. 75
Haldane, Christian communitarianism and state educationp. 79
Newby, White and secular approaches to educationp. 83
Macedo, civic education and the culture of liberal democracyp. 88
Social democratic liberalism, cultural interventionism and educationp. 96
A look forwardp. 99
Varieties of Liberalism, Public Values and Educationp. 105
Three cultural justifications for liberal civic educationp. 105
Rawls, impartial liberalism and the extent of civic educationp. 107
Rawls' political liberalism and the attempt to justify the 'regrettable' effects of the SDL approach to civic educationp. 111
Perfectionist liberal approaches to personal educationp. 121
Raz, human well-being and the educational importance of autonomyp. 124
The development of autonomy and pluralismp. 127
The development of autonomy, cultural attachment and autonomy driven schoolingp. 129
Autonomy, transcendence and the language of spiritualityp. 131
Experience, Realism and Spiritual Developmentp. 140
Spiritual development and the educational inevitability of evaluationp. 140
A map of possible policy assumptionsp. 142
The experiential approachp. 144
The non-realist approachp. 150
Instrumentalism and spiritual developmentp. 152
The presuppositions of theological non-realism and the notion of transcendencep. 154
Critical realism, transcendence and liberalismp. 156
Realism, transcendence and virtuep. 157
Pluralism and the Limits of Common Schoolingp. 165
Introductionp. 165
Liberalism, universalism and procedural imperialismp. 168
The politics of pluralism and the ideology of pluralismp. 169
The paradox of pluralist educationp. 172
The politics of civic pluralismp. 174
Conservatism and the conservation of civil societyp. 176
Conservatism and civic pluralismp. 178
Conservatism and commonalityp. 182
Pluralism, conservatism and the common schoolp. 187
Conclusionsp. 195
Appendix 1p. 198
Appendix 2p. 202
Bibliographyp. 204
Indexp. 214
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