International Dimensions of Moral Education, 1892–1914 (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

In this chapter, Wright explores secularist activities within an international context. Ethical Movement proposals and organisational channels enabled ideas and people to influence a wide, international audience of educators. Three examples of international activity are considered: first, Felix Adler’s American-based proposals influencing Ethical Movement educators in England; secondly, the publication of an international inquiry and the First International Moral Education Congress in 1908; and finally F. J. Gould’s demonstration tours in America and India on behalf of the Moral Instruction League between 1911 and 1914. Wright shows that Ethical Movement channels provided secularists with a broad, international influence among educators, including Christian ones. But the transfer of its proposals between different cultural and linguistic contexts was not straightforward; the universality that activists desired proved elusive.

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