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| Description | Correspondence with H J Blackham Secretary of the group, the Campaign's manifesto, background information on the organisation. Most of the file comprises a set of papers sent out to members of the Campaign regarding the place of religious education in schools. It was designed as a pack for speackers of the organisation. Includes:
'The school as an experimental community' by Edward Blishen from the BHA conference on moral education of the child in school, October 21st 1967
'The contribution of science lessons to the formation of social and moral attitudes' by H C Gillard probably from the BHA conference on moral education of the child in school, October 21st 1967
Preamble to a syllabus of moral education in the primary school
Outline of the approach to research into Moral Education being undertaken by the Farmington Trust Research Unit
'A coment of a secular assembly for secondary schools' by James Hemming June 1968
'Religious education in state schools' reproduction of an article by Professor P H Hirst, Professor of Education at Kings College London, Ocotber 1968
'Some semi-philosophical argucments against religious education in state schools' by G C Jones October 1967
'Child Development and Religious Instruction'
'Answers by the British Humanist Association to questionary issued by the Church of England Commission on Religious Education'
'Aims of Religious Education' the Christian Education Movement's reply to the Church of England Commission on Religious Education
Campaign for Moral Education's answers to questionary issued by the Church of England Commission on Religious Education
Speech by Viscount Eccles (formely Minister of Education) given during the House of Lords debate on Religious Education held 15th November 1967. Also includes other exerpts from the debate
'What the Pollsters won't tell you' extracts from an Observer article 9th February 1969 by Conrad Jameson
Background information on 'Fifteen to Eighteen' (the Crowther Report 1959), 'Half Our Future' (the Newsom Report 1963), 'Children and their primary schools' (the Plowden Report 1966), and 'Primary Education in Wales' (Gittins Report 1967)
Campaign for Moral Education was an assoication of teachers, parents, pupils, and citizens for the improvement of social, moral and religious education in the counry schools of England and Wales. |