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Disobedience & Christian Classroom Management A Critical Analysis of Charles Howell's "Is Disobedience Sin? Christian Perspectives on Problems of Classroom Management" Philosophy of Education.

In an article published in Philosophy of Education, Charles Howell sets out several perspectives and attitudes concerning the role and conception of classroom disobedience held by various vested interests in public education. Howell's examines points brought up in Robert Kunzman's review of Nel Noddings book on religion in American public schools in order to reframe issues frequently seen as political divisive in a context searching for mutual agreements between Christian parents and secular educators. The author analyzes the root of what constitutes "disobedience" and thus what is appropriate classroom management in the secular and Christian concepts in an effort to acknowledge these core differences so that the focus might be put upon finding solutions that satisfy the needs of secular educators and Christian families.

A tacit conflict of the article is the lack of acknowledgement...

Howell discusses Susan Wolf's "Reason View," which advocates for relativism due to differing socioeconomic contexts which influences an individual's concept of responsibility and grasp upon moral judgment. This view conflicts with the Christian precept of obedience as following absolutely the commandments of God, including "legitimate civil authority (Howell 466)."
Is it the role of the public classroom to impart the knowledge of information only, or is there is a civil, moral and/or ethical component to the role of education as well? This is an issue in sharp debate in various communities, but if there is an ethical element to the role of education, than what is to be done with as Wolf describes them, "students from backgrounds of intergenerational poverty [who] have difficulty comply with teachers' expectations because they don't understand or accept the middle-class norms that permeate school ? (Howell 468)" If education extends to the domain of ethical…

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Howell, Charles. (2006). "Is disobedience sin? Christian perspectives on problems of classroom management" Philosophy of Education. Pp. 465-473.
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