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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Auteur principal: Kay, William K. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge 2011
Dans: Journal of beliefs and values
Année: 2011, Volume: 32, Numéro: 2, Pages: 185-193
Sujets non-standardisés:B art–science debate
B J.S. Mill
B Religious Education
B J.H. Newman
B Matthew Arnold
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Résumé: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
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of beliefs and values
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13617672.2011.600817