Christian Privilege in U.S. Education

Legacies and Current Issues
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-138-64994-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion—specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it—and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating religion and education, the authors challenge that religion is in fact absent from public education, suggesting instead that it is in fact very much embedded in current public educational practices and discourses and in a variety of assumptions and perspectives underlying understandings of teaching, learning, and teacher preparation. The book reframes the discussion about religion and schooling, arguing that it remains in the language and metaphors of education, in the practices and routines of schooling, in conceptions of the "’child" and the "teacher" (and what happens between them in the spaces we call "learning," the "classroom," and "curriculum") as well as in assumptions about the role of schools emanating from such conceptions and in the current movement toward accountability, standardization, and testing. Christian Privilege in U.S. Education examines not whether Christianity has a place in public education but, rather, the very ways in which it is pervasive in a legally secular system of education even when religion is not a topic taught in school.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Kevin J.

Segall, Avner

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Curricula: Planung und Entwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Christianity and American Education: Historical Connections

2. Religious Sediments in Educational Discourses and Practices

3. The Bible: A Blueprint for Contemporary Educational Practices

4. The Inherent Religiosity of the Standards Movement

5. To Teach as Jesus (Would)

6. Pedagod: God as Teacher Co-Authored w/Scott Jarvie

7. Teaching as Revelation

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin J. Burke is Assistant Professor of English Education, University of Georgia, USA.

Avner Segall is Professor of Teacher Education, Department of Teacher Education, Michigan State University, USA.