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Talvacchia, Kathleen T. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2006
This paper asserts that training Christian leaders for faithful and effective leadership in religious communities, which is responsive to the reality of the diverse religious experiences of this country, requires that they learn the skills of integration, specifically the ability to integrate formation into a community within the context of a…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Religion, Leadership Effectiveness, Social Environment
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Etherington, Matthew – Education Research and Perspectives, 2008
This article builds on the foundations and evaluations laid recently by Symes and Gulson in their 2005 article, "Crucifying Education: The rise and rise of new Christian schooling in Australia." It evaluates the warrant of Christian schooling within a liberal democracy and offers a rejoinder for defending the rights of Christian…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Values Education
Brantmeier, Edward J., Ed.; Lin, Jing, Ed.; Miller, John P., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
"Spirituality, Religion, and Peace Education" attempts to deeply explore the universal and particular dimensions of education for inner and communal peace. This co-edited book contains fifteen chapters on world spiritual traditions, religions, and their connections and relevance to peacebuilding and peacemaking. This book examines the…
Descriptors: Jews, Conflict, Cultural Awareness, Christianity
Johnson, Michael C. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The goals of higher education often entail the development of students' character. Rarely, however, are these character development goals connected to the unique design and delivery of distance education programs. Additionally, the research literature that explores the character development aspects of distance education is sparse. Thus the purpose…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Independent Study, Fantasy, Distance Education
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Thurmond, Gloria J. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2007
The Church's interpretation of the current ecological crisis as a moral crisis is the catalyst for this essay, which proposes a newly constructed faith-based model for ecological dialogue and education. The exploration and reinterpretation of the traditional Church doctrine of the Virgin Mary as the new Eve provides a theme from which an…
Descriptors: Catholics, Christianity, Ecology, Moral Issues
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Mason, Michael; Singleton, Andrew; Webber, Ruth – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2007
A research project conducted in 2003-2006, the Spirit of Generation Y, using both extended interviews and a nationwide survey, revealed three main strands in the spirituality of young Australians: traditional, alternative and humanist. Their involvement in traditional religions was declining, like that of their parents, and although some adopted…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Youth, Foreign Countries
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Park, Hae Seong; Bonner, Patricia – School Psychology International, 2008
This project investigated the impacts of family religious involvement and family religious affiliations on parenting practices and academic performance. This study utilized data from the base-year and first follow-up of the Education Longitudinal Study: 2002/2004 (ELS). A series of statistical techniques were incorporated to examine the nature of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Religious Factors
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Leach, Fiona – Gender and Education, 2008
This paper draws on Anglican mission archive material to uncover the extent to which girls' schooling in early nineteenth-century West Africa developed as a response to male interests and perceived male needs. The founding of the colony of Sierra Leone in 1787 as a home for freed slaves followed by the arrival of Protestant missionaries in 1804…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Educational Opportunities, Political Socialization
Harvey, Sean P. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
"American Languages: Indians, Ethnology, and the Empire for Liberty" is a study of knowledge and power, as it relates to Indian affairs, in the early republic. It details the interactions, exchanges, and networks through which linguistic and racial ideas were produced and it examines the effect of those ideas on Indian administration. First…
Descriptors: Race, Freedom, Etymology, Grammar
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de Ruyter, Doret J. – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
This article explores the meaning of "religious ideals" and their possible role in education. "Religious ideals" are defined as ideals that acquire meaning due to a belief in transcendence or a divine being. Two kinds of religious ideals are being distinguished, namely ideals that are constituted by a belief in a transcendent being and ideals that…
Descriptors: Religion, Christianity, Religious Factors, Goal Orientation
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Levitt, Heidi M.; Ware, Kimberly N. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
Religious leaders from Jewish, Christian, and Islamic faiths were interviewed about their understanding of the intersection of intimate partner violence (IPV) and religion, and a grounded-theory analysis was conducted. The present manuscript explored the leaders' beliefs about the partners' responsibility for IPV and the role of divorce. Although…
Descriptors: Clergy, Beliefs, Islam, Christianity
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Bizzell, Patricia – College Composition and Communication, 2006
Often, composition teachers present public debate as if it occurs on a rhetorically level playing field, with victory going to the person who argues most logically. Real-world contestants are seldom so equal in power. We can enrich our pedagogy by studying such encounters; example: the 1263 disputation at Barcelona between Rabbi Nachmanides and…
Descriptors: Debate, Rhetoric, Logical Thinking, European History
Lee, Jeong-Kyu – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relations between education and happiness from the perspectives of the West and the East, especially Buddhism and Christianity as well as classical Greek and Chinese great thinkers. In order to examine this study systematically, three research questions are addressed as follows: First, what are…
Descriptors: Educational Principles, Christianity, Buddhism, Non Western Civilization
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Flipse, Abraham C. – Annals of Science, 2008
This paper gives an account of the establishment and expansion of a Faculty of Science at the Calvinist "Free University" in the Netherlands in the 1930s. It describes the efforts of a group of orthodox Christians to come to terms with the natural sciences in the early twentieth century. The statutes of the university, which had been…
Descriptors: Conflict, Christianity, Natural Sciences, Foreign Countries
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Leirvik, Oddbjorn – British Journal of Religious Education, 2008
The article analyses the relation between religion, education and citizenship as reflected in recent research and current debates regarding religion in Pakistani schools. Following a description of the political context, two different views (one Christian, one Muslim) on the current state of affairs are presented. After a consideration of the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Citizenship, Religion, Foreign Countries
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