The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools

The Future of Publicly Funded Faith Schools addresses and critically examines the arguments both for and against the continued maintenance of faith-based schools within a publicly funded state system, providing a balanced synthesis of the different arguments surrounding faith schools.

Richard Pring is Emeritus Professor of Education, and was formerly Director of Department of Educational Studies, University of Oxford, UK.

Introduction Part 1: Context Chapter 1: Contemporary Political and Cultural Context Chapter 2: Historical Background and the Current Position Chapter 3: Making Sense of Facts and Figures Chapter 4: International Perspective Part 2: Religious Education Chapter 5: Three Traditions Chapter 6: Response to the Secular Age Chapter 7: Religious Education: An Extended Vision Chapter 8: Service to Society Part 3: Key Issues Emerging: The Need for Philosophy Chapter 9: Ethics: Education and its Aims Chapter 10: Espitemology: Knowledge, Truth and Reason in Religious Education Chapter 11: Civic Society: Common Good and Social Pluralism Part 4: Drawing Conclusions Chapter 12: For or against Faith Schools? Finding an answer