Religion and/of American Public Schooling: Standards, Fidelity, and Cardinal Principles

• In Event: 65.080 - Roundtable Session 24
  In Roundtable Session: 65.080-7 - Curriculum Standardization, Inequality, and Emerging Currents

Abstract

In this article we focus very specifically on the ways in which the standards movement and the assessments and curricular interventions that come along with the movement, draw on inherently religious (Judeo-Christian) language and traditions to make the curriculum of schooling, though not explicitly about, say, the Bible, still to inflect the values of such a document. In the process we examine the language used to frame standards making the point that a given document need not reference religious texts explicitly to be guided by undergirding theological histories. We close by taking seriously a recent call to consider the resacralization of society and research, particularly education research.

Authors

• Kevin Burke, University of Georgia - Athens

• Avner Segall, Michigan State University