Faith in Schools 🏫. Autonomy, Citizenship, and ➕ Religious Education in the Liberal State

✅ Should a liberal democratic state permit religious schools 🏫 Should it fund them ➡️👥 What principles should govern these decisions in a society marked ❣️ by religious and ➕ cultural pluralism In Faith in Schools 🏫, Ian MacMullen tackles these important questions ❓️ through both political and ➕ educational theory, ➕ 👤👨 reaches some surprising ➕ provocative conclusions. MacMullen argues that parents desires to educate their children in the faith must ❌️ be allowed to deny children the opportunity for ongoing rational reflection about their values. Government should safeguard childrens interests in 👨‍💻️ as autonomous 🧑 as well as societys interest in the reaches some surprising and provocative conclusions. MacMullen argues that parents desires to educate their children in the faith must not be allowed to deny children the opportunity for ongoing rational reflection about their values. Government should safeguard childrens interests in developing as autonomous persons as well as societys interest in the education of an emerging generation of citizens. But, he 👤👨 writes ✍️, liberal theory does not ❌️ support a strict separation of church ⛪️ and ➕ state in education policy. MacMullen proposes criteria to distinguish religious schools 🏫 that satisfy legitimate public interests from those that do not ❌️. And ➕ he 👤👨 argues forcefully that governments should fund every type of school 🏫 that they permit, rather than favoring 🙇‍♂️ upper-income 📨 parents by allowing them ➡️👥 to buy 🛒 their way out of the requirements deemed suitable for children educated at public expense. Drawing 🖌️ on psychological research, he 👤👨 proposes public funding of a broad range of religious primary schools 🏫, because they can 🥫 help lay the foundations for young 👶 childrens future autonomy. In secondary education, by contrast, even private religious schools 🏫 ought to be oblig...

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