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Reconsidering religion

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Reconsidering religion
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towards a broader understanding of multicultural education in U.S. public schools
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Robinson
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Malila N.
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1977-
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Malila Robinson
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Catherine A
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Catherine A Lugg
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Firestone
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William A
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William A Firestone
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Clark
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Clark Chinn
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Laurence
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Laurence Parker
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Rutgers University
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Graduate School - New Brunswick
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2013
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2013-05
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eng
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This dissertation analyzed the legal and policy issues involved with teaching about religion in U.S. public schools as part of a multicultural curriculum. U.S. public schools are government entities, and thus, the people who work within the public education system are bound by U.S. laws, policies, regulations and court rulings relating to schools. This dissertation used federal and lower court rulings dealing with Constitutional demands for the separation of church and state and the resulting public school policies and practices to highlight the difficulties many school teachers and administrators have attempting to sift through dense and often vague or contradictory legal dicta contained therein. Additionally, this dissertation combined legal, religious and socio-political theories to create a new theoretical framework, Critical Religious Legal Theory, which was then used to analyze the structures that shape educational law and policy in the realm of teaching about religion in public schools. The analysis focused on critically analyzing the laws and policies dealing with religion and public schools as social phenomena and as tools of control, and the education law and policy makers in the context of the social and political atmosphere at the time that the laws/policies were created. This dissertation also critically analyzed the generally accepted Christian norms in public education and America’s reliance upon ceremonial deism, as it relates to public schools. And this research explained how religion has been used as a tool of control and how and why religion can and should be demystified through the use of multicultural curricula that are inclusive of religion to (amongst other things) promote secular “moral truths” in character education like goodness, justice, love, truth while dispelling the religious stereotypes and prejudices that have been promulgated. The research generated by this dissertation, along with the pre-existing body of research on the intersection of religion and public schools, can be used by researchers, administrators and educators to expand the curricula in public schools to include courses where religion is discussed, in a constitutionally permissible manner, to inoculate against the ignorance behind many religiously motivated hate crimes.
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Education
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vii, 231 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Malila N. Robinson
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Multicultural education--United States
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Multiculturalism--Law and legislation--United States
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Religion in the public schools--Law and legislation--United States
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ETD doctoral
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Malila
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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