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Religious governance and the politics of equality in education
Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume: 45, Issue: 5, Pages: 966 - 987
Swansea University Author:
Pier-Luc Dupont Picard
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/01419870.2021.1905863
Abstract
This article seeks to unpack UK equality politics in the educational sphere and explore how it relates to four ideologies of religious governance: secularism, multiculturalism, interculturalism and intersectionalism. More specifically it examines how these ideologies support principles of reproducti...
| Published in: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
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| ISSN: | 0141-9870 1466-4356 |
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Informa UK Limited
2022
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa64739 |
| Abstract: |
This article seeks to unpack UK equality politics in the educational sphere and explore how it relates to four ideologies of religious governance: secularism, multiculturalism, interculturalism and intersectionalism. More specifically it examines how these ideologies support principles of reproduction, understood as knowledge transmission, and recognition, understood as respect for difference. Findings suggest that principles of religious reproduction and recognition permeate all educational policy debates and are upheld by all stakeholders. Disagreements hinge on how to reconcile religious diversity with large-scale intergroup contact, advocated by interculturalists, and with the interests of female or LGBTQ students, foregrounded by intersectionalists. Whereas multiculturalists find themselves at the forefront of attempts to achieve equality in the curriculum, intersectionalists have been especially active in debates around accommodation and the funding of religious schools, and interculturalists have vocally opposed these schools’ capacity to select students and teachers in ways that exacerbate religious and ethnic segregation. |
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| Keywords: |
Equality, recognition, secularism, religious diversity, intersectionality, education |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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This article belongs to the research project “Towards a European Theory of Justice and Fairness (ETHOS)”, funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme under grant number 727112. |
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5 |
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966 |
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987 |