A genealogy of the secular versus religious schooling debate in New South Wales (part I): terror and suspicion
Since the mid-1990s, there has been a sustained growth in religious schooling in Australia with an accompanying debate over its merits. In turn, these debates in the realm of education are framed by broader questions in ostensibly secular-liberal nations like Australia over the 'new visibility...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer
[2014]
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Journal of Religious Education
Year: 2014, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-38 |
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Religious schools
B Secular B Genealogy B Terrorism B education policy B Politics |
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| Summary: | Since the mid-1990s, there has been a sustained growth in religious schooling in Australia with an accompanying debate over its merits. In turn, these debates in the realm of education are framed by broader questions in ostensibly secular-liberal nations like Australia over the 'new visibility of religion', most prominently in the spectacle of religiously-framed terrorist acts. The conjunction of this geopolitical context and the local debate over religious schooling focalised in the 2007-09 protests against a proposed Islamic school in the Sydney suburb of Camden, which have triggered a renewed emphasis on the importance of the secular principle in schooling. In this two part paper, I posit that the notion of 'the secular' is not a principle per se, but a strategic term deployed within particular political situations. I approach this through a genealogy of how religious and secular schooling have come to be understood as they are in New South Wales. Part I considers how the geopolitical and domestic political context of the present debate compares to that in the lead up to the formal separation of religious from secular schooling in 1880. |
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| ISSN: | 2199-4625 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Religious Education
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s40839-014-0003-4 |