Liberal education: a renewed role within religious education

This paper reviews the concept of liberal education and shows how, from its beginnings in classical times, it has been socially influential in schools and universities. After the rise of science and the proliferation of technology in the nineteenth century, liberal education was threatened and this...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kay, William K. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge 2011
In: Journal of beliefs and values
Jahr: 2011, Band: 32, Heft: 2, Seiten: 185-193
weitere Schlagwörter:B art–science debate
B J.S. Mill
B Religious Education
B J.H. Newman
B Matthew Arnold
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Zusammenfassung:This paper reviews the concept of liberal education and shows how, from its beginnings in classical times, it has been socially influential in schools and universities. After the rise of science and the proliferation of technology in the nineteenth century, liberal education was threatened and this threat continued in the form of late twentieth-century philosophical attacks. Liberal education was said to be elitist and individualistic and to be inappropriate in a multicultural society. Embedded within religious education, however, the arguments in favour of liberal education justify the notion of ‘learning from’ religion.
ISSN:1469-9362
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2011.600817