Transcript Should the Classroom Be An Integration Lab? Dr Lorenzo Zucca King’s College London.

Should the Classroom Be An
Integration Lab?
Dr Lorenzo Zucca
King’s College London
A Confession
• Crucifix in the
classroom
– Religious Education
– Secular State School
• Homogeneity and
Integration
Integration: some elucidations
• Integration:
AIM ≠ PROCESS
• Integration vs
Accommodation
Integration, Accommodation and
their risks
Good
Integration
Solidarity
through
equality of
treatment
Accommod Solidarity
ation
through
different
treatment
Bad
Evil
Assimilation
(France)
Uniformization
(i.e URSS)
Atomized
separation
(UK)
Segregation
(i.e USA preBrown v
Board)
So what does the work?
• Toleration and
Tolerance
• …Education as an
Experiment in
Tolerance
Integration and the classroom
Symbols
Syllabus
System
System
• How does the state organize its system of
education? How does it regulate access?
• Secular State Schools should be the backbone
Syllabus
• Should the state allow
the teaching of
religion in public
schools?
• The experiment
should include it
Symbols
• Should the state allow
the presence of
religious symbols in
the classroom?
• State symbols & the
experiment of local
democracy
Conclusion
• The classroom should be an experiment in
integration…
• …where tolerance and pluralism are not
only empty words, but driving forces of the
school experience