Struggle for the Soul: William Heard Kilpatrick

Autor/in	Stallones, Jared R.
Titel	Struggle for the Soul: William Heard Kilpatrick
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 34 (2007) 2, S.221-234 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Educational Theories; Role of Religion; Work Attitudes; Employee Attitudes; Integrated Activities; Biographies; World Views + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitnehmerinteresse; Integrierender Unterricht; Biography; Biografie; Biographie; World view; Weltanschauung
Abstract	Progressive educators applied early religious experiences to their professional lives in four ways. Some, like schoolmaster Jerry Voorhis, consciously integrated their religious beliefs into their educational theories and practices. Others, like Paul Hanna, lived divided lives, one religious and one professional. John Dewey represents a different approach. After a thirty-year struggle with religious belief, he reinterpreted his religious experience in purely secular terms. This article focuses on William Heard Kilpatrick who represents a fourth group who did not seek to harmonize their youthful religion with their adult lives, but seemingly left religion behind as they pursued their careers. That is, Kilpatrick rejected personal religious devotion, but not the bedrock religious ethic of his childhood. Despite his encounters with Charles Darwin's "Descent of Man" and the ideas of Biblical higher criticism, his embrace of science as the sole arbiter of truth, and even a "heresy trial" before the Board of Trustees of Southern Baptist Mercer College, Kilpatrick incorporated significant elements of Christian faith and practice in his manners, writings, and work. In each case, the ways in which progressive educators approached their personal religious beliefs influenced their contributions to education. (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10