Secularisation in Australian Education Since 1910

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50347-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 98 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 190 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Education

The phrase “free, compulsory, and secular” is central to Australia’s understanding of its own education system. Yet the extent to which education in Australia, or anywhere else for that matter, can be described as “secular” is never clear or settled. This work examines the history of education in Australia, from 1910 through to the present, through an interdisciplinary survey of key scholarship and a series of six original case studies. It seeks to uncover the extent to which the education system has undergone a process of secularisation and argues that the very meaning of the term “secular” is always contingent and changeable.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carden, Clarissa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Geschichte der Pädagogik, Richtungen in der Pädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Gesellschaft, Kirche und Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Tables

Abstract

Keywords

Part 1: Secularisation and Australian Education: Definitions and Approaches

Part 2: Religious Instruction and State Schools: Expansion and Constraint in the Early Twentieth Century

Part 3: Government and Non-government Schools: Questions of Faith, Choice, and Control in the 1960s and 1970s

Part 4: Twenty-First Century Debates: Christian Influence in a Complex System

Part 5: Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Über Autor(innen)

Clarissa Carden (Ph.D. Griffith University, Australia, 2018), is a Griffith University Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Her research focuses on the intersection of morality and social change, with a particular focus on the lives of children and young people.