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6 - Schools

from Part II - Practice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2021

Patrick S. Nash
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University of Cambridge
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This chapter looks at the abuse and regulation of schools. It begins with a brief history of religion and education law before examining the Trojan Horse Affair which began in 2014 and reverberates today. An extraordinary volume of disinformation encrusts this series of events, which is here related via an outline of the salient facts as drawn from official reports and court cases, with minimal reference to newspaper articles and academic commentary. The related issues of illegal schools and unregulated madrassas are touched on. The theoretical discussion illustrates that liberal individualism views education as a means to emancipate the individual into secularism, while multiculturalism treats it as a means to preserve and perpetuate minority cultures. It concludes that these perspectives fail to take schools seriously as institutions whose primary purpose is to provide as many British children as possible with a good education. The pluralist response points to what the Trojan Horse Affair and education law are really about: ensuring that every school, regardless of classification, is properly regulated, well-governed and capable of rebuffing any threat to its good functioning.

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British Islam and English Law
A Classical Pluralist Perspective
, pp. 185 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Schools
  • Patrick S. Nash, University of Cambridge
  • Book: British Islam and English Law
  • Online publication: 02 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636964.007
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  • Patrick S. Nash, University of Cambridge
  • Book: British Islam and English Law
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  • Schools
  • Patrick S. Nash, University of Cambridge
  • Book: British Islam and English Law
  • Online publication: 02 December 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636964.007
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