2 options
For God and country : Butler's 1944 Education Act / by Elizabeth "Libi" Sundermann.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sundermann, Elizabeth Libi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education and state--Great Britain.
- Education and state.
- Great Britain. Education Act, 1944.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (167 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
- Summary:
- This postsecular study on Conservative and Christian thinkers' intellectual ferment leading to England's 1944 Education Act examines how politicians and educationalists promoted Christian-civic humanism as the educational philosophy underlying the Act. It argues that Religious Education and secondary and further educational proposals were meant to go hand-in-hand to shape a national educational system that promoted an English national identity based on ideals of tradition and progress for the war-weary nation. The 1944 Act's historic Religious Education mandate, however, was overshadowed by th
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Glossary
- Selected References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8743-9
- OCLC:
- 935642533
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.