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Hayward, Mary – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
Whilst religious education in the present may be seen to assume new roles and be perceived to be more about process than content, questions about content and the ways in which "faiths" are represented cannot ultimately be avoided. This article focuses on recent Agreed Syllabuses with particular reference to the place they give to…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Traditionalism
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Woodrow, James – Christian Higher Education, 2006
Institutions and individuals function best with a sense of purpose--a reason for existence. When designed and communicated effectively, the mission statement has the power to transform people's values, motivations, and actions into a positive outcome. To investigate the role of institutional mission in Christian higher education, a review of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Christianity, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
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Yust, Karen-Marie – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
Christian camps claim to create spaces where children and youth are more likely to encounter God and experience spiritual living, and yet contemporary camp ministries in the United States struggle to distinguish their environments from the cultural contexts in which their campers usually reside. This article reflects on the practices of 23 diverse…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Christianity, Cultural Influences
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Petersen, Zina – College English, 2006
Recognizing that many of us teach the medieval English women mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich in survey courses, this essay attempts to put these writers in context for teachers who may have only a passing familiarity with the period. Focusing on passages of their writings found in the Longman and Norton anthologies of British…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Females, Epistemology, Anthologies
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Schrum, Ethan – History of Education Quarterly, 2007
World War II stands as a defining moment for American higher education. During the crisis of international relations that existed by the late 1930s, American thinkers of various stripes felt compelled to mobilize the country's intellectual and educational resources in defense of democracy, thus creating "a great ideological revival of democracy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Educational History, Federal Government
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Wimberly, Anne E. Streaty – Religious Education, 2007
In this article, the author looks back on her journey of teaching, framing it as a privileged fulfillment of the call as a means of inviting others' reflection on the meanings of the teaching vocation. She builds on this framework with personal stories focused on two aspects of teaching from which she has learned much: the pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Christianity, Teaching (Occupation), Personal Narratives
Joshi, Khyati Y. – Teaching Tolerance, 2007
In almost every public school in the United States, attitudes and behaviors in the classroom presume an unacknowledged, yet pervasive, Christian norm. How does this affect students who are not Christian? The author's research into the life experiences of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh students of Indian American backgrounds uncovers the hidden cost of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Ethnicity, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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McKnight, Cynthia M.; McIntire, David D.; Stude, Douglas P. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
An instrument was designed to assess the current state of faculty governance at those institutions of higher learning that are members of the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). The purpose was to arrive at a clearer understanding of the variety and range of governance systems that are currently in place among CCCU schools. In…
Descriptors: Governance, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Evaluation Methods
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Hodge, David R. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2006
This multi-sample study of master of social work students from various faith traditions (N = 391) explores the extent to which religious discrimination is perceived to exist as a problem in social work education programs. No difference in perceptions emerged between religiously affiliated and non-affiliated respondents. Evangelical Christians…
Descriptors: Social Work, Masters Programs, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
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Joung, Eun Sim – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
This article explores the relationship between human attachment and God attachment, particularly in Christian women's experiences of faith. It is based on the attachment perspective as a conceptual framework. The main aim was to evolve an attachment-theoretical approach to women's faith development and to offer a complementary path to interpret…
Descriptors: Females, Spiritual Development, Attachment Behavior, Religious Factors
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Carmody, Brendan – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
As countries' populations become more religiously diverse, a need to review the religious education syllabus that operates is often perceived. One such country is Zambia, which was not only traditionally religiously diverse but has become even more so with the advent of Christianity, Islam and Hinduism and other non-African faiths. This article…
Descriptors: Christianity, Integrity, Foreign Countries, Islam
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Elias, Jacob W. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2006
This article is a presentation and discussion of a seminary course on the Corinthian Correspondence. The pedagogical model for this course was structured to parallel the pattern of Paul's pastoral care from a distance as he relates to the Corinthian congregation by personal visits, delegations from and to the congregation, letters from and to the…
Descriptors: Letters (Correspondence), Theological Education, Models, Teaching Methods
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Torstenson-Ed, Tullie – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
What kind of perceptions of God do children have? Do they believe in God? Does change take place over time and is there a connection with changes in society? These questions are answered on the basis of texts and surveys involving children between 8 and 12 years of age in Sweden during 2002 and similar material from the years 1969, 1979 and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childhood Attitudes, Beliefs, Christianity
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Okuda, Kazuhiro – Religious Education, 2006
Protestant Christianity was brought to Japan during the modernization of that country in the middle of the nineteenth century. Before the Second World War, except for a short time, Christianity in Japan as a Western religion had experienced a difficult course of history because of hostility due to nationalism of the populace and the leaders of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Power Structure, Christianity, War
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Pattman, Rob; Cockerill, Megan – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2007
In HIV and AIDS and life skills education in southern Africa peer education has been advocated as a way of democratizing relations between educators and students and encouraging participatory pedagogies. But what makes a peer educator, or rather how do people make themselves peer educators? Similarities in terms of age, social status and…
Descriptors: Health Education, Moral Values, Gender Differences, Christianity
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