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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813850003321

Autore

Maddox Marion

Titolo

Taking God to school [[electronic resource] ] : the end of Australia's egalitarian education? / / Marion Maddox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, New South Wales : , : Allen & Unwin, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

9781743436868

1-74343-686-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 248 pages)

Disciplina

379.28

Soggetti

Religion in the public schools - Australia

Education and state - Australia

Evangelistic work - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Marketplace mission -- 2. Free, compulsory and secular -- 3. No school will lose a dollar -- 4. Chirst-centred, bible-based, taxpayer-funded -- 5. Getting into the schools -- 6. It's the vibe -- 7. Reclaim the secular.

Sommario/riassunto

In Australia's public schools, students are now routinely exposed to evangelism from very conservative Christian groups. Marion Maddox uncovers the surprising impact of these groups on once secular public schooling, and the ways in which governments have been persuaded to support their cause.Fewer Australians now practise a religion or believe in God than at any time in our past. Yet our governments increasingly push conservative Christianity on our children...Nearly forty per cent of secondary school children in Australia attend a private school, and overwhelmingly these are Christian schools. Canberra funds these.