Glenn The Ambiguous Embrace

Government and Faith-Based Schools and Social Agencies
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2351-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 26, 336 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Glenn, Charles L.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Berger, Peter L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword By Peter L. Berger


Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Reaching Out to Civil Society

Challenges to the Welfare State

Bureaucratic Ineffectiveness

Overstepping the State's Appropriate Limits

Government and Education

Administrative Decentralization

Market Strategies

Organizational Flexibility

Controlling Faith-Based Institutions to Death

2. Strings without Money

The Stakes in Government Oversight

Oversight of Faith-Based Schools

Faith-Based Schools That Resist Oversight

The Scope of Government Regulation of Nonpublic Schools

Interlude: Teen Challenge

3. How Close an Embrace?

Three Ways of Understanding Government's Relationship to Religion

Outside the Wall of Separation

Faith-Based Social Services: Where the Wall Is Not So High

Schools: The Unhappy Exception

4. Funding with Government Oversight

How Much Oversight?

Modes of Funding

Contracting

Vouchers

Grants and Other Subsidies

Shared Space

Franchise

Asset Sale

Interlude: Neocorporatism in Europe

The Netherlands

Germany

5. Professional Norms

Professional Norms and Government

Semiprofessionalism

How Professional Norms Developed

Professional Training

Professional Norms and Faith-Based Organizations

6. Employment Decisions

A Tale of Two Cities

The Right to a Shared Vision of Service

Required Qualifications

Interlude: The Salvation Army By Emily Nielsen Jones, Charles L. Glenn


How Did the Salvation Army Become Different?

The Salvation Army's Self-Understanding

Elements of the Salvation Army's Persistence as a Faith-Based Organization

Threats to the Salvation Army's Distinctive Mission

Resisting the Lure of Popularity

7. Loss - and Recovery - of Nerve

The Importance of Maintaining Distinctiveness

When Sacred and Secular Mix

Being Explicit about Identity

8. Recommendations

1. Should Government Make a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations to Provide Social Services and Education?

2. May the United States Government Make a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations without Overstepping the Limits Set by the First Amendment?

3. If it Makes a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations to Provide Social Services and Education, How Should Government Behave to Avoid Spoiling Their Distinctive Character and Contribution?

4. What Measures Should Government Take to Ensure That Making a Greater Use of Faith-Based Organizations Does Not Lead to Negative Consequences, Such as a Decline in Quality and Availability of Services or an Increase in Discrimination?

5. Should Faith-Based Organizations Seek Government Support for Their Social and Educational Ministries?

6. In Accepting Government Support, How Should Faith-Based Organizations Protect Themselves from Interference with Their Core Mission and Distinctive Character?

7. How Can Faith-Based Organizations Reconcile Professional Norms with the Maintenance and Expression of Their Core Mission and Distinctive Character?

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles L. Glenn is Professor and Chairman of Administration, Training, and Policy Studies at Boston University School of Education. His previous books include The Myth of the Common School, Choice of School in Six Nations, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, and Educating Immigrant Children: Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations.
Peter L. Berger is University Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture at Boston University.