Newspaper article by the Sydney Morning Herald, February 2013
This article talks about how whilst a significant number of people in Australia are not affiliated with a religion, the rate of enrollments into religious schools are increasing. According to the article, this is because parents are dissatisfied with public schooling; the religious schools as stated by the parents offer the benefits of private schooling (better results, better facilities and new buildings).
The benefits for the parents outweigh the 'negative' or cost of the school being slightly religious.
I believe this is a very interesting topic to look at, as it ties in with the idea of 'identity' within the school but also the outside identity that the school portrays.
People seem to believe that the type of school their kids attend will directly reflect on the children's self identity. When looking at the above article, it can be fair to say that the image of religious schools, are not simply defined by the religion they are affiliated to.
My parents for example, enrolled my brother and i to a catholic private school, even though we weren't catholic ourselves.
Giroux talks about identity politics, and the categorizing identity systems that are in place. One of them is the link between yourself and that of the community. An example of this is the collective identities of the students of a religious affiliated school.
References:
- Henry A. Giroux (1993) Living dangerously: Identity politics and the new cultural
7:1,1-27
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