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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460623403321

Autore

Sundermann Elizabeth Libi

Titolo

For God and country : Butler's 1944 Education Act / / by Elizabeth "Libi" Sundermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8743-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

344.4107

Soggetti

Education and state - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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