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Our Next Meeting: Wednesday 21 March 2012, at 7.30 pm in the Graduate School, University of Hull Cottingham Road campus
Secular Indoctrination? The Very Idea of Value-Free Education
Dr Stephen A. Burwood (Head of the Department of Humanities, University of Hull)
Secularists frequently allege that compulsory Religious Education in schools amounts to state-sponsored indoctrination. But can any education be truly ‘value-free’ – and would such an education be worth having in any case? In this lecture, Stephen Burwood will examine some of the assumptions about education which lie behind current debates on the place of RE in schools. Dr Burwood has particular interests in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of education, and is a member of the Humanist Philosophers’ Group of the British Humanist Association.
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Called to the Big Society?
Where did ‘the Big Society’ come from, what has happened to it and where is it going? How does the Big Society fit in with the Christian concept of the Common Good? What impact do regional inequalities have on the very notion of the Big Society? This event, which is organized by the Churches’ Regional Commission, is open to all in the Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire. Speakers include: Dr Patrick Riordan SJ, Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Heythrop College, London; Professor Peter Wells, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research at Sheffield Hallam University; and Andrew Stunell MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Department of Communities and Local Government.
Thursday 22 March 2012, 9.30 am-3.45 pm, Leeds Church Institute, 20 New Market Street, Leeds LS1 6DG. Visit http://calledtothebigsociety2012.eventbrite.com. Further details 0113 245 4700.
