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Puchner, Laurel; Markowitz, Linda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
To reduce Christo-normativity in United States of America schools, most schools tend to only educate teachers about what religious practices are allowed by law. The question we ask is whether a focus on structural policies, like law, works. We apply Bourdieu's theory of habitus, capital, and field to discuss the findings from 27 interviews we…
Descriptors: Christianity, Holidays, Laws, Social Capital
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Scott, John Trevitt; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl – Power and Education, 2016
This article is set in the context of multicultural 21st-century Australia, whose diversity is marked by religious plurality as well as varied ethnic groupings. The article reports on a study of professional learning in three Australian faith-based schools (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) that investigated the role such schools might play in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Education