Childhood, Religion and School Injustice - Karl Kitching
KORTE INHOUD
Debates about religion and education internationally often presume the neutrality of secular education governance, as an irrefutable public good. However, understandings of secular freedom, rights and neutrality in schooling are continuously contested, and social movements have disrupted the notion there is a uniform public to be educated. Simultaneously, unjust, neo-liberal and majoritarian education policies constantly undermine collective notions of what is good and just. The book examines how education policy positions religious and secular school providers as competitors for parents' attention, and shows how inequalities shape parents' interest in and access to secular/religious schools. Kitching particularly explores how children in urban and rural settings negotiate the joys, pleasures, paradoxes and injustices of schooling and childhood. It outlines ways in which children's social position, relationships and encounters with religious and consumer objects inform who they can become, and who and what th...
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2020Uitgever: Cork University Press248 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 1782053883ISBN-13: 9781782053880Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2020, 268pp, Hardcover met stofomslag. Is iets vochtig geweest aan de bovenzijde. Alles is netjes opgedroogd en om te slaan, maar blz. zijn iets 'bobbelig'. [Auteur: Kitching, Karl] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Cork University Press] [Titel: Childhood, Religion and School Injustice]
