Download or read book Childhood Religion and School Injustice written by Karl Kitching and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice adopts an original approach to exploring the expression of children's and adults' worldviews through schooling. The book is situated in a western 'post-austerity' climate, where the re-entrenchment of neoliberal policies has created and exacerbated various social divisions and injustices. Kitching outlines a number of related child and family-related injustices and ghosts that haunt the majority Catholic primary school sector in Ireland. He argues that the education policy focus on parent choice of school exploits religious, spiritual and non-religious worldviews for the purposes of privatising and marketising school systems. Kitching argues that education policy favours variously white, middle class, Catholic families, and maintains the private patronage model of schooling inherited from the colonial era. Second, he argues that there is a clear need to publicly engage majority collective memories of childhood, religion and schooling. A public reckoning with injustice, pain and joy in childhoods past and present in Ireland is necessary to challenge the self-interested, unjust nature of contemporary education policies, and to imagine and create an affirmative public school landscape that deeply engages with a plurality of worldviews.Exploring in-depth research with over one hundred children, the book goes on to demonstrate the multiple ways children encounter religiosity, spirituality, belief, and consumption in their everyday lives. This research highlights how children negotiate the paradoxes and injustices of schooling, including first communion sacramental preparation in a Catholic-dominated school system. The book shows how children's encounters with people, religious artefacts and consumer products complicate neat categories of religious, spiritual and non-religious child experience. Kitching argues that children merge myth, heritage and consumer culture in forming their own worldviews. He also contends that how children's encounters with the world raise multiple ethical questions about our accountability and obligations to one another. Kitching frames this research in an innovative, critical postsecular perspective. This perspective explores what can emerge from the failure of individualist concepts of reason, religion, science and rights to offer neutral common ground for education. Drawing particularly on the work of Rosi Braidotti, he argues that meaningful freedom, and deep engagement with plurality in education can only be achieved by acknowledging the unchosen nature of our obligations to one another. He supports the 'becoming public' of schools and schooling, which challenges the colonial and neoliberal encouragement of parents to actively choose a secular or religious school. Kitching also calls for greater public engagement with the plurality of each child. This call engages the commitments that various children and families have towards particular worldviews, while arguing that public education must focus on imaginative, ethical childhood encounters that move past static, self-interested notions of identity and secular-market freedoms.Childhood, Religion and School Injustice will be of interest to postgraduate students, academics and researchers in the fields of Sociology, Childhood Studies, Education Studies, the Study of Religions, Government and Politics, and Postcolonial Studies"--
Download or read book Childhood Religion and School Injustice written by Karl Kitching and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 they value. Drawing on the above research, Childhood, Religion and School Injustice demonstrates the need to engage with each child's plurality, and to recognise multiple inequalities experienced by families across schools. Given the tendency towards mass school privatisation, Kitching argues for the context-specific becoming public of school systems and localities, where majoritarian, narrow self-interest is challenged, unchosen obligations to others are recognised, and collective imaginings of what a 'good' childhood is, are publicly engaged.
Download or read book Negotiating Religion and Non religion in Childhood written by Rachael Shillitoe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how and if the mandate for children to worship in schools can be justified within the context of declining church attendance and increasing nonreligious identification in British society. Shillitoe asks what place compulsory worship has in an increasingly diverse and plural society, and what the answer means for the relationship between religion, the secular, and education more broadly. Through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork from across three schools in southwest England, the book reveals how examining the significance of children’s experiences expands our understanding of both collective worship in schooling and religion in social life more broadly and demonstrates that adult-centric anxieties and assumptions in this area do not always reflect the experiences of children.
Download or read book School Food Equity and Social Justice written by Dorte Ruge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School Food, Equity and Social Justice provides contemporary, critical examinations of policies and practices relating to food in schools across 25 countries from an equity and social justice perspective. The book is divided into three sections: Food politics and policies; Sustainability and development; and, Teaching and learning about food. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of academics with practitioner backgrounds, the chapters in this collection broaden discussions on school food to consider its educational and environmental implications, the ideals of food in schools, the emotional and ideological components of schooling food, and the relationships with home and everyday life. Our aim is to provide enhanced insight into matters of social justice in diverse contexts, and visions of how greater equality and equity may be achieved through school food policy and in school food programs. We expect this book to become essential reading for students, researchers and policy makers in health education, health promotion, educational practice and policy, public health, nutrition and social justice education.
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Download or read book Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland written by Clara Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to bring a philosophical lens to issues of socio-political and cultural importance in twenty-first century Ireland. While the social, political, and economic landscape of contemporary Ireland has inspired extensive scholarly debate both within and well beyond the field of Irish Studies, there is a distinct lack of philosophical voices in these discussions. The aim of this volume is to enrich the fields of Philosophy and Irish Studies by encouraging a manifestly philosophical exploration of contemporary issues and concerns. The essays in this volume collectively address diverse philosophical questions on contemporary Ireland by exploring a variety of themes, including: diaspora, exile, return; women’s bodies and autonomy; historic injustices and national healing; remembering and commemoration; institutionalization and containment; colonialism and Ireland as "home"; conflict and violence; Northern Ireland and the peace process; nationalism, patriotism, and masculinities; ethnicity, immigration, and identity; and translation, art and culture. Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland marks a significant contribution to contemporary theorizations of Ireland by incorporating both Irish and transatlantic perspectives. It will appeal to a broad audience of scholars and advanced students working in philosophy, Irish Studies, feminist theory, history, legal studies, and literary theory. Beyond academia, it will also engage those interested in contemporary Ireland from policy and civil society perspectives.
Download or read book The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies written by Daniel Thomas Cook and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 4001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies navigates our understanding of the historical, political, social and cultural dimensions of childhood. Transdisciplinary and transnational in content and scope, the Encyclopedia both reflects and enables the wide range of approaches, fields and understandings that have been brought to bear on the ever-transforming problem of the "child" over the last four decades This four-volume encyclopedia covers a wide range of themes and topics, including: Social Constructions of Childhood Children’s Rights Politics/Representations/Geographies Child-specific Research Methods Histories of Childhood/Transnational Childhoods Sociology/Anthropology of Childhood Theories and Theorists Key Concepts This interdisciplinary encyclopedia will be of interest to students and researchers in: Childhood Studies Sociology/Anthropology Psychology/Education Social Welfare Cultural Studies/Gender Studies/Disabilty Studies
Download or read book Queer Thriving in Religious Schools written by Seán Henry and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an account of religious schooling committed to ‘queer-thriving’ and envisions how queer staff and students can live their lives without being ‘accommodated’ within heteronormative religious traditions. Engaging with queer theological perspectives across the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, the book begins by situating queer thriving as a viable part of the work of the religious school, and not just as something reserved for progressive education more broadly. Taking three areas that are typically used to justify religious heteronormativity (religious texts, religious values, religious rituals), it engages queer theologies to showcase how an educational approach committed to queer thriving can be enacted in religious schools in ways that are also theologically sensitive. The book then explores how religious school communities can navigate differences around queerness and religion in ways that are supportive of queer staff and students. It takes desire as an everyday reality in classrooms and applies a queer lens to this to challenge heteronormativity and to imagine alternative modes of relationship between staff, students, and communities that enable queer staff and students to thrive. Showcasing possibilities of resistance for the opposition between religious and queer concerns, it will appeal to researchers, postgraduates and academics in the fields of religion and education, whilst also benefitting those working across philosophy of education and educational theory, sex education, sociology of education, social justice education, queer theologies, religious studies, and sociology of religion.
Download or read book Sex and Sexualities in Ireland written by Barbara Górnicka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-12-02 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection provides an invaluable resource of seventeen chapters from a wide range of academic disciplines. These chapters place sex and sexualities in Ireland in historical context and take the reader through the structural changes that have transformed the expression of sexuality in Ireland from one of self-denial to self-expression. The collection does not however unquestionably assume a linear narrative of progress: new issues and challenges are also addressed throughout. This book will be of interest to students and scholars from a range of disciplines including sociology, social policy, history, media, gender studies and psychology. The collection is divided into six separate but interlinked thematic sections: Sexualities in Historical Irish Contexts, Young Adults, Sexual Health, and Education, Sexual Practices and Health, Minority Sexualities and Genders, Sex Work in Ireland and Activism and Contestation.
Download or read book Early Elementary Mathematics Lessons to Explore Understand and Respond to Social Injustice written by Courtney Koestler and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a must-read for all elementary educators. A call to action, the guide for teachers offers incredible resources, including powerful lesson plans, to engage readers in the practice of teaching mathematics for social justice in early childhood settings. An immense contribution to the conversation around social justice and mathematics in elementary education." Ruchi Agarwal-Rangnath Assistant Professor, University of San Francisco San Francisco, CA Empower children to be the change—join the teaching mathematics for social justice movement! We live in an era in which students of all ages have—through media and their lived experiences— a more visceral experience of social injustices. However, when people think of social justice, mathematics rarely comes to mind. With a teacher-friendly design, this book brings early elementary mathematics content to life by connecting it to the natural curiosity and empathy young children bring with them and the issues they experience. Tested in PK-2 classrooms, the model lessons contributed in this book walk teachers through the process of applying critical frameworks to instruction, using standards-based mathematics to explore, understand, and respond to social justice issues. Learn to plan instruction that engages children in mathematics explorations through age-appropriate, culturally relevant topics such as fairness, valuing diversity and difference, representation and inequality, and environmental justice. Features include: Content cross-referenced by mathematical concept and social issues Connection to Learning for Justice’s social justice standards Downloadable instructional materials and lesson resources Guidance for lessons driven by children’s unique passions and challenges Connections between research and practice Written for teachers committed to developing equitable and just practices through the lens of mathematics content and practice standards as well as social justice standards, this book will help connect content to children’s daily lives, fortify their mathematical understanding, and expose them to issues that will support them in becoming active citizens and leaders.
Download or read book The New Publicness of Education written by Carl Anders Säfström and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores democratic possibilities for education after the critique of the impact of neo-liberalism on educational policy and practice. Together, the authors investigate the contours of a ‘new publicness’ of education. This edited volume refers to well-established critiques that expose how neoliberal governance has normalised the privatisation of public life and undermined the public nature of education. Through historical reconstruction, theoretical exploration, and analyses of educational policies and practices, chapters take a novel approach by investigating democratic possibilities within and beyond the current neoliberal hegemony in education. Covering a range of educational settings – from early childhood education through to higher and professional education – chapters spotlight the Irish educational and political context, as well as exploring international implications. Ultimately, this book opens up new avenues for discussion around public education and its future, and will therefore be of great interest to researchers and students in the fields of educational theory, education politics, educational policy and democratic education.
Download or read book Time written by Edmund Yates and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Education written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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