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The Impact of Faith and Religion on Education

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King’s educational experience was influenced by his Christian faith which as well as being generationally imbedded within his family as Baptist pastors, was accentuated by his attendance at faith schools. During his childhood this was the best education on offer for Black people which after the end of the civil war, access to learning was deemed a privilege (Harler et al. 1989). In the UK the foundation of the education system was based on the Christian faith in the 1950s when religious education predominantly taught about Christian faith, its morals and ethical instruction according to Jackson and Marotti (2004) but with the increase of migration from the British colonies; 21st century Britain is now considered to be a multi-faith nation. Bingham and Binsford (2015) reported on a two year commissioned enquiry into the place of religion in modern society led Baroness Butler-Sloss. It deduced that the UK is no longer deemed a Christian country due to the decline of churchgoing and the rise of Islam and other faiths. This chapter considers the role of faith based schools and the political influence that drive its curriculum and standards and considers whether elitism influences access to faith based educational facilities.

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Herbert, A. (2016). The Impact of Faith and Religion on Education. In: Martin Luther King . SpringerBriefs in Education(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39235-6_3

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