176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published 1971, this volume unravels the complicated history of the religious question in British education. The background of the key Acts of Parliament which established the "dual" system – of Church and Local Authority school – is examined. The changing policies of different religious groupings are analyzed, and their outcome in legislation brought out.
Chapter 1 The forces at work; Chapter 2 “United education” is an impossibility’; Chapter 3 ‘Progress by administration’; Chapter 4 The Elementary Education Act, 1870; Chapter 5 The Act in operation; Chapter 6 The Education Act, 1902; Chapter 7 Attemps to modify the ‘settlement’ of 1902; Chapter 8 The Education Act, 1944; Chapter 9 The end of ‘passionate intensity’?;
Biography
James Murphy
