228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Educationalists have long worked to democratise our school system and purge traces of its religious origins. Rethinking the School shows that these efforts have been in vain. The bureaucratic organisation of schooling is here to stay, and Christian moral discipline is an integral part of the school as we know it. Hunter argues that both liberal and Marxian theory ignore the historical reality... Read more
Editor's introduction
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Principled positions
2 Social governance and spiritual guidance
3 The pastoral bureaucracy
4 Unprincipled equality
5 The sphere and duties of critique
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Principled positions
2 Social governance and spiritual guidance
3 The pastoral bureaucracy
4 Unprincipled equality
5 The sphere and duties of critique
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Ian Hunter is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Culture and Government, and co-author of Accounting for the Humanities and On Pornography.
