1st Edition

Church, State and Schools

By James Murphy Copyright 2007
    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    176 Pages
    by Routledge

    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