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Measuring the Contribution of Roman Catholic Secondary Schools to Students' Religious, Personal and Social Values
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Village, Andrew; Francis, Leslie J. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
Roman Catholic schools have been part of the state-funded system of education in England and Wales since the 1850s. Currently, Roman Catholic schools provide places for around 10% of students attending state-maintained primary and secondary schools. The present study employed data collected during the 1990s to compare a range of religious, social,…
Descriptors: Social Values, Spiritual Development, Secondary Schools, Catholic Schools
Assessing Outgroup Prejudice among 13-15-Year-Old Students Attending Catholic and Protestant Secondary Schools in Northern Ireland: An Empirical Enquiry
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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew – Irish Educational Studies, 2015
Northern Ireland has been and remains a religiously divided community. This study sets out to examine outgroup prejudice among a sample of 1799 13-15-year-old students attending Catholic or Protestant schools and employs both bivariate analyses and hierarchical modelling to chart the associations between outgroup prejudice and personal factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Catholic Schools, Protestants
Catholic Schools and Attitudes toward Religious Diversity: An Empirical Enquiry among 13- to 15-Year-Old Students in Scotland
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Francis, Leslie J.; Village, Andrew; Penny, Gemma; Neil, Peter – Scottish Educational Review, 2014
Recognition that the United Kingdom has increasingly become a multi-cultural and multi-faith society has raised questions about the place of church schools or schools with a religious character within the state-maintained sector. The issue was given particular focus by the Runnymede Trusts report "Right to divide? Faith schools and community…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Student Diversity, Secondary School Students, Positive Attitudes