This text explores issues standing at the intersection of public pedagogy, memory, and critical theory, focusing on the explicit and implicit educational imperative of art, natural history, and indigenous museums, cultural centers, memorial sites, heritage houses, and other cult…
Using critical curriculum theory as its lens, this book explores the relationship between religion-specifically, Christianity and the Judeo-Christian ethos underlying it-and secular public education in the United States. Despite various 20th-century court decisions separating re…
1. Christianity and American education : historical connections -- 2. Religious sediments in educational discourses and practices -- 3. The bible : a blueprint for contemporary educational practices -- 4. The inherent religiosity of the standards movement -- 5. To teach as Jesus…