TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melissa Deckman
AU  - Joseph Prud'homme
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453909423
TI  - Curriculum and the Culture Wars
T2  - Debating the Bible's Place in Public Schools
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0942-3
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051204
N2  - Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of the country. The first half of the book presents new scholarship on the use of the Bible in schools, including a historical analysis of what the Founders had to say about the use of the Bible in public education, a more current assessment of the politics behind the elective Bible class movement in the early twenty-first century, and a critique of such educational programs from constitutional and pedagogical perspectives. This edited volume also offers new insights into long-standing battles that pit religious and secular advocates against one another in the areas of evolution and sex education and considers whether school choice programs that would allow parents the right to send their children to sectarian schools are an affront to promoting the goals of a liberal democracy.
KW  - historical analysis, politics, evolution, liberal democracy, sex education
LA  - English
ER  -