The Common School and the Comprehensive Ideal A Defence by Richard Pring with Complementary Essays

by Halstead, Mark; Haydon, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781405187381
• ISBN10: 1405187387
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-20
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A topical and provocative volume that invites consideration of the most fundamental issues concerning future educational provision: what is the purpose of our schools, and what should we do in them?Cutting-edge research by contributors who are leading figures internationally in philosophy and education, for whom these issues have been particular points of concern Includes a substantial keynote essay by leading philosopher of education, Richard Pring, which is the springboard for the complementary essays that follow. Engages with questions Pring raises under five themes: defending and questioning the comprehensive ideal; common schools in multicultural societies; common schools and religion; school choice and the comprehensive ideal; and common schools and inclusion Dedicated to the memory of Terence H. McLaughlin, whose tireless pursuit of the philosophical questions and challenges raised by the common school and the comprehensive ideal is emulated in these pages.

Author Biography

Mark Halstead is Professor of Education and Head of the Department of Community and International Education at the University of Huddersfield. He has written widely on moral education, multicultural education and Islamic education. He is currently co-editing a collection of essays by Terence H. McLaughlin.Graham Haydon is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. Much of his work has been on moral and citizenship education in plural societies. His most recent publications include Values in Education (2006) and Education, Philosophy and the Ethical Environment (2006).

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Preface	p. xi
The Common School	p. 1
Defending and Questioning the Comprehensive Ideal
In Search of the Comprehensive Ideal: By Way of an Introduction	p. 23
On the Necessity of Radical State Education: Democracy and the Common School	p. 38
Common Schooling and the Need for Distinction	p. 57
Educational Justice and Socio-Economic Segregation in Schools	p. 72
Common Schools in Multicultural Societies
Culture and the Common School	p. 91
What is Common about Common Schooling? Rational Autonomy and Moral Agency in Liberal Democratic Education	p. 108
Common Schools and Multicultural Education	p. 124
What Not To Wear: Dress Codes and Uniform Policies in the Common School	p. 141
Common Schools and Religion
Religious Education, Religious Literacy and Common Schooling: A Philosophy and History of Skewed Reflection	p. 157
Religious Worldviews and the Common School: The French Dilemma	p. 171
Common Schools and Uncommon Conversations: Education, Religious Speech and Public Spaces	p. 189
School Choice and the Comprehensive Ideal
How and Why to Support Common Schooling and Educational Choice at the Same Time	p. 207
From Adam Swift to Adam Smith: How the 'Invisible Hand' Overcomes Middle Class Hypocrisy	p. 224
School Choice, Brand Loyalty and Civic Loyalty	p. 238
Common Schools and Inclusion
Capability and Educational Equality: The Just Distribution of Resources to Students with Disabilities and Special Educational Needs	p. 255
A Question of Universality: Inclusive Education and the Principle of Respect	p. 272
The 'Futures' of Queer Children and the Common School Ideal	p. 291
'Lookism', Common Schools, Respect and Democracy	p. 306
In Place of a Conclusion: The Common School and the Melting Pot	p. 322
Index	p. 335
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