Helen Johnson, Reader in Education, Kingston University, United Kingdom.

• Part A: An Argument. The English Public Space: Developing Spirituality in English Muslim Schools. Against Faith Schools: A Philosophical Argument for Children’s Rights. Part B: Using Reflection to Find One’s Self and the Big Picture. Reflecting on and Talking about Private Lives and Professional Consequences. Moral Imperatives, Professional Interventions and Resilience, and Educational Action: The Souls of Children Admidst the Horror of War. Expressing the Tradition in a Historical Context. The Birth of a Faith School in the Post-Dearing Era. A Tale of Two Cultures: Reflections on a Dialogical Study of a Jewish and a Catholic School. Interview with Helen Johnson. Using Reflective Practice to Explore the Origins and Consequences of Cultural and Faith Perspectives. Part C: Lessons from the International Scene and Guesses about the Future. Brief Historical Survey: The Need to Recognise Old Wine in New Bottles - The Structural Roots of Voluntarism and Difference in the English Schooling System. The Dialectic of Australian Catholic Education

'...this collection of articles...provides a wide-ranging and interesting introduction to omany of the issues presented by faith schools in liberal democratic societies.' -International Journal of Public Theology