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Podcast: New Books in Law
Episode: Karl Kitching, "Childhood, Religion and School Injustice" (Cork UP, 2020)
Description: In Childhood, Religion, and School Injustice (Cork University Press, 2020), Dr. Karl Kitching examines how debates about religion and education internationally often presume the neutrality of secular education governance as an irrefutable public good. However, understandings of secular freedom, rights and neutrality in schooling are continuously contested, and social movements have disrupted the notion that there is a uniform public to be educated. Simultaneously, unjust, neoliberal and majoritarian education policies constantly undermine collective notions of what is good and just.Dr. Kitching presents original empirical research on how religious and secular schools are positioned as competitors for parents’ attention, and shows how...