{"id":1749,"date":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2007\/01\/12\/faith-schools-and-the-modern-british-society\/"},"modified":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"faith-schools-and-the-modern-british-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2007\/01\/12\/faith-schools-and-the-modern-british-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Schools and the Modern British Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Territory: Current debate about religion in modern British society regarding the rise in faith schools (a third of all new \u2018City Academies\u2019 will be in the control of Evangelical Christians or Christian organisations) and what this means in regards to curriculum, equal opportunities and tolerance towards those of other faiths or none. I wish to examine what form religion should take in a British child\u2019s education. Thinkers: Richard Dawkins in chapter 8 \u2018What\u2019s wrong with religion? Why be so hostile?\u2019 and chapter 9 \u2018Childhood, abuse and the escape from religion\u2019 from his highly controversial book \u2018The God Delusion\u2019. Andrew Wright in \u2018Religious Education in the Secondary School\u2019. Also secular, religious and government reports and media. Central Themes: &#8211; Are Faith Schools \u2018fair\u2019? Is it right to discriminate against a child by refusing them entry to a local school on what is essentially the basis of their parents religion? &#8211; Do Faith Schools provide an ethos of tolerance and understanding or do they exaggerate current cultural and religious divides? &#8211; Should religious theories be taught in schools alongside science, e.g. Intelligent Design and Evolution? &#8211; Should religion be \u2018public\u2019 or \u2018private\u2019? &#8211; Does it matter? A study showed that only 12% of school leavers from a Catholic school saw themselves as being Catholic and many rejected most of the doctrinal teachings. &#8211; Where is the state\/religion divide in our society?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Bone, 2007, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[491,22,123],"tags":[151,119,174],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-491","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-education","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}