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The Legal Abolition of Faith Schools in the UK
Summary: A paper submitted for 'Religion, Civil Religion, and the Common Good', London Metropolitan University, 20th-21st June, 2012.
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Type of Activity: Academic Research - Other
Principal Investigator: Sarah Beresford
Dept/Research Groups: Centre for Law and Society, Law
Project Description
This paper will argue that although religiosity in education may be 'common', it is far from 'good'. The paper will explore the notion that the common good would be best served by a legal system in which the State rejects religiosity in all compulsory education and promotes a secularist based curriculum. This objective can only be achieved by the abolition of all faith schools howsoever funded. There is a pressing legal and social need to arrest and reverse the current policy on the expansion of faith schools, given the powerfully symbolic nature of religiosity, and the proselytizing effect that it has upon children, especially female children. A feminist methodology will be utilized to explore and problematize how law, politics and society currently intersect in arriving at what is misguidedly constituted as the common good.
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