The Christian Worldview and the Formation of Theo-Political Citizens: An Ethno-Case Study of a Conservative Christian School- [electronic resource]
The Christian Worldview and the Formation of Theo-Political Citizens: An Ethno-Case Study of a Conservative Christian School- [electronic resource]
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- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100059
- ISBN
- 9798379781910
- DDC
- 370
- 서명/저자
- The Christian Worldview and the Formation of Theo-Political Citizens: An Ethno-Case Study of a Conservative Christian School - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Boston College., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(343 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Cochran-Smith, Marilyn.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston College, 2023.
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- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation presents an ethno-case study explaining how students at a conservative Christian high school were socialized into ideas about civic and public life in a pluralistic society. Drawing on democratic educational theory and institutional theory to analyze ethnographic data gathered during a full school year of observations, interviews, and document collection, this dissertation addresses the following questions: (1) What are the logics, practices, and symbolic representations concerning civic identity and participation in democratic society conveyed explicitly and implicitly at a conservative Christian high school? (2) How do students understand and engage with ideas about civic identity and participation conveyed at that school? (3) How do families understand and engage with these ideas about civic identity and participation? This dissertation argues that the school was organized around a theo-political institutional logic committed to the absolute truth of Christianity. This logic was symbolically represented in the language and concepts of the "Christian worldview" and reinforced through consistent and recurrent school practices that shaped students' behavior and their ways of interpreting the world. This theo-political logic, which was pervasive throughout formal and informal curriculum and instruction at the school, presented an all-encompassing vision of Christianity as "the truth" and offered a coherent connection between doctrinal beliefs and actual behavior. This logic was also notable for what it omitted and lacked, particularly acknowledgment of the racialized nature of schooling and society, attention to the pluralism of worldviews in a diverse democratic nation, and recognition of the systemic and structural causes of injustice in society. The emphases as well as the omissions of the theo-political logic at the school shaped students' civic identity as first and foremost a religious identity, which meant engaging with society to promote conservative social policies, candidates, and political perspectives. The dissertation shows that students largely embraced the theo-political logic that animated the school, and their parents chose the school because of the presence of this logic.
- 일반주제명
- Education.
- 일반주제명
- Religious education.
- 일반주제명
- Secondary education.
- 키워드
- Christian school
- 키워드
- Civic education
- 키워드
- Ethnography
- 키워드
- Worldview
- 기타저자
- Boston College LSOE - Teacher Education Special Education Curriculum and Instruction
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01A.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
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