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Nord, Warren A.

 
9780807844786: Religion and American Education: Rethinking a National Dilemma (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
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ISBN 10: 0807844780 ISBN 13: 9780807844786
Casa editrice: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

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Warren Nord's thoughtful book tackles an issue of great importance in contemporary America: the role of religion in our public schools and universities. According to Nord, public opinion has been excessively polarized by those religious conservatives who would restore religious purposes and practices to public education and by those secular liberals for whom religion is irrelevant to everything in the curriculum. While he maintains that public schools and universities must not promote religion, he also argues that there are powerful philosophical, political, moral, and constitutional reasons for requiring students to study religion. Indeed, only if religion is included in the curriculum will students receive a truly liberal education, one that takes seriously a variety of ways of understanding the human experience. Intended for a broad audience, Nord's comprehensive study encompasses American history, constitutional law, educational theory and practice, theology, philosophy, and ethics. It also discusses a number of current, controversial issues, including multiculturalism, moral education, creationism, academic freedom, and the voucher and school choice movements.

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L'autore

Warren A. Nord is director of the Program in the Humanities and Human Values and teaches in the department of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Editore
The University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione
1995
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0807844780
ISBN 13 
9780807844786
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
504
Contatto del produttore
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