On Not Abolishing Faith Schools: A Response to Michael Hand and H. Siegel  

Oleh:

Groothuis, Douglas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Research in Education vol. 2 no. 2 (Jul. 2004), page 177–188.
Topik: education; epistemology; faith; knowledge; religion
Fulltext: 177TRE22.pdf (81.83KB)

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This article finds Michael's Hand's argument for the abolition of faith schools to be deficient because key premises of his argument seem false. I argue that the concept of knowledge that Hand employs in arguing that no religious proposition is known to be true is overly strict. I reject Siegel's attempt to amend Hand's argument to make it stronger because Siegel employs a false construal of 'faith'. I further argue that Hand's premise that students in faith schools will not take their teachers to be religious authorities is very weak. Finally, I note that the abolishing of faith schools does not follow from either Hand's or Siegel's argument.

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