Morality and citizenship in English schools : secular approaches, 1897-1944 / Susannah Wright.
Wright, Susannah, author.
2017
LC314.G7 W75 2017
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Title Morality and citizenship in English schools : secular approaches, 1897-1944 / Susannah Wright.
Author Wright, Susannah, author.
ISBN 9781137399441 (electronic book)
1137399449 (electronic book)
9781137399434
1137399430
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39944-1
Published London : This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature, [2017]
Copyright ©2017
Language English
Description 1 online resource.
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-39944-1 doi
Call Number LC314.G7 W75 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 370.11/409420904
Summary This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives. It brings together, for the first time, the activities of different educators and pressure groups, operating locally, nationally and internationally, over a period of 47 years. Who were these activists? What ideological and organisational resources did they draw on? What proposals did they make? And how did others respond to their views? Secularist activists represented a minority, but offered a recurrent challenge to majority views and shaped ongoing educational debates. They achieved some, albeit limited, influence on policy and practice. They were divided among themselves and by 1944 had failed to supplant majority views. But, with the place of religious and secular ideals in schools remaining a subject of debate, this analysis has resonance today.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Histories of the sacred and the secular 1700-2000.
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Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; 1: Introduction; Notes; 2: Religion, Secularism and Education; Religion; Secularism; Education; Conclusion; Notes; 3: Moral Instruction in the Provinces: F.J. Gould in Leicester; `The Life Story of a Humanist ́in `A Radical Town3́; `The Universal Objector:́ Leicester School Board and Education Committee; Secularist and Positivist; Conclusion; Notes; 4: The Moral Instruction League, 1897-1919; Promoting Non-theological Moral Instruction; Of `All Theologies and of None?́27; An Ethical Religion?; Conclusion; Notes.

5: International Dimensions of Moral Education, 1892-1914Atlantic Crossings: The Moral Instruction of Children to the Moral Instruction League (1892-97); `World-Wide Interest1́5: The Report of the International Inquiry and the First International Moral Education Congress, 1908; `A New Kind of Missionary5́3: Frederick James Gould in the USA and India 1911-14; Conclusion; Notes; 6: The Positivist World Citizen: F.S. Marvin and F.J. Gould in the League of Nations Union, 1919-1939; Christianity, Secularism and the League of Nations Union; Creating a Living Past: F.S. Marvin.

The League of Nations Spirit: F.J. GouldConclusion; Notes; 7: The Faith of the Democrat: The Association for Education in Citizenship, 1934-1944; `My Religion:́ Ernest Simon and Eva Hubback; The Association for Education in Citizenship; Christian and Humanist Democrats; Conclusion; Notes; 8: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Secondary Sources; Index.

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