eprintid: 10119078
rev_number: 23
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datestamp: 2021-01-21 16:37:48
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creators_name: Vincent, C
title: The illiberalism of liberalism: schools and fundamental controversial values
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J80
keywords: Religion, relationships and sex education, liberalism, values, schools
note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
abstract: This paper analyses the recent protests by mainly Muslim parents against the use of LGBTQ+-friendly story books in a primary school in Birmingham, England, the associated court case, and the broader issues it highlights about the contradictory and complex relationships between liberalism, faith, and democracy. I discuss the case itself, tensions around Relationships and Sex Education, and the wider social and political context for the protest, considering both the position of ‘Muslims’ in the UK’s civic and political society, and how dominant discourses within liberalism responds to ‘others’ in this present temporal moment. I conclude by briefly considering the potential of deliberative democracy and agonism as approaches to address emotive value clashes, and to emphasise the importance of primary schools as places of shared investments, where families and teachers might move towards developing mutual understandings.
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844002
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1830121
doi: 10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844002
lyricists_name: Vincent, Carol
lyricists_id: CJVIN67
actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic
actors_id: DAALL44
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
volume: 48
number: 9
pagerange: 2073-2090
pages: 18
citation:        Vincent, C;      (2022)    The illiberalism of liberalism: schools and fundamental controversial values.                   Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , 48  (9)   pp. 2073-2090.    10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844002 <https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1844002>.       Green open access   
 
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