TY - BOOK ID - 11314808 TI - Religious schools v. children's rights PY - 1998 SN - 0801434262 9780801434266 0801487315 1501723839 PB - Ithaca Cornell University Press DB - UniCat KW - Church schools KW - Religious education KW - Parent and child (Law) KW - 184 Kinderrechten en onderwijs KW - Ethical education KW - Theological education KW - Education KW - Moral education KW - Law and legislation KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek KW - Historische en vergelijkende pedagogiek. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:11314808 AB - Despair over the reported inadequacies of public education leads many people to consider religious schools as an alternative. James G. Dwyer demonstrates, however, that religious schooling is almost completely unregulated and that common pedagogical practices in fundamentalist Christian and Catholic schools may be damaging to children. Courts, legal and political theorists, and the public typically argue that families and religious communities are entitled to raise their children as they see fit and that the state must remain neutral on religious matters. Dwyer proposes an alternative framework for state policy regarding religious schooling and other child-rearing practices, urging that the focus always be on what is best, from a secular perspective, for the affected children. ER -