 Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public Schoolsreviewed by Lucille Eckrich - July 05, 2006  Title: Grappling with the Good: Talking about Religion and Morality in Public SchoolsAuthor(s): Robert Kunzman Publisher: State University of New York Press, Albany ISBN: 0791466868, Pages: 168, Year: 2006 Search for book at Amazon.com Four years of teaching foundations of education courses led me to realize that many preservice teachers struggle to understand and mediate between their dual identities as religious persons and (soon-to-be) public school teachers. Our classroom discussions on topics such as gay issues in schools, multicultural diversity, and the distinctions among socialization, education, and indoctrination would raise the antennae of some religious students, and yet religion seemed to remain between the lines, a subtext that none of us quite knew how to broach in the classroom. Thus last year, instead of leaving religion on the periphery, I decided it was time to work with it as an explicit part of my foundations of education curriculum. I knew that teachers who had not had the opportunity to grapple with their own religious or ethical frameworks in the classroom would be hard pressed to know whether and how to help their own pupils... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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