Science and religion in the educational writings of John Locke: the moral formation of children

• Grant number: 12/04668-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2012
• End date: April 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Fundamentals of Education
• Principal Investigator: Lidia Maria Rodrigo
• Grantee: Christian Lindberg Lopes do Nascimento
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Educação (FE). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The following research project aims to investigate the impact of the science teaching and the religion teaching on a child's moral education, selecting from the educational writings of John Locke, without disconsidering this philosopher's other writings. Thereunto, we will scan the theoretical references that have influenced the author of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, as Montaigne's skepticism and English scientism as well as the reformist contribution to education. From Locke's point of view on the educational theory, it is about problematizing the relation, firstly controversial, that the author establishes between science and religion teaching to produce a certain moral formation. The research hypothetically assumes that with this kind of moral education, the author seeks the establishment of a Christian society, regarded by him as the only one capable to preserve the precept of the social contract. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

NASCIMENTO, Christian Lindberg Lopes Do. Science and religion in educational writings of John Locke: the moral formation of the child. 2015. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação Campinas, SP.