Collective Worship
Issues and Opportunities
by Richard Cheetham
Paperback
Price: £14.99
Publisher:SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Published:17 September 2004
ISBN:0-281-05586-6
GoodBookStall Review:
Collective Worship works on two levels. One is as an academic look at the various pieces of legislation that affects worship in school assemblies. The second is as a practical manual on how to run such meetings. It is on the first level that the book works best. It is too academic for many hard pressed teachers to wade through. It also fails to address the corporate embarrassment of Britain’s Judeo-Christian heritage, something which many Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs are astonished by. Even so Collective Worship is a welcome guide to the issue.
Reviewer: Phelim McIntyre (14/12/04)
Collective Worship works on two levels. One is as an academic look at the various pieces of legislation that affects worship in school assemblies. The second is as a practical manual on how to run such meetings. It is on the first level that the book works best. It is too academic for many hard pressed teachers to wade through. It also fails to address the corporate embarrassment of Britain’s Judeo-Christian heritage, something which many Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs are astonished by. Even so Collective Worship is a welcome guide to the issue.
Reviewer: Phelim McIntyre (14/12/04)
