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Nickerson, Lloyd Emery, II – Online Submission, 2007
This study examines a math journal writing assignment comparing how high school (grades 10 through 12) algebra students who performed well and students who performed poorly on traditional mathematics tests constructed their corresponding journal entries. Statistically significant differences found indicated that students who performed well on the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Writing Assignments, Journal Writing, Student Journals
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Trethewey, Lynne – History of Education, 2007
Utilizing a biographical approach and network analysis, this article examines one South Australian woman's life of public and Methodist social welfare service in the post-suffrage era. It is argued that although Kate Cocks (1875-1954) viewed her welfare work as "a God-given mission", as "practical Christian service", personal…
Descriptors: Females, Network Analysis, Foreign Countries, Welfare Services
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Railsback, Gary L. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
This article is a historical case study of George Fox University (GFU) in Newberg, Oregon. Using organizational lifecycle as a theoretical framework, George Fox University had a long and delayed childhood in that it remained a small and struggling institution for most of the 20th century, and then experienced rapid growth in the late 1980s. This…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, High School Graduates, Metropolitan Areas, Recruitment
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French, David – Academic Questions, 2006
The college administrators, who push homosexual rights so vigorously, are confused. They routinely flout the law, abandoning any pretense of neutrality, by censuring organizations that do not embrace gays into their midst. Again and again they punish or expel individuals for whom certain behaviors remain perverse or sinful. David French represents…
Descriptors: Religion, Homosexuality, Social Attitudes, Student Rights
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Schweber, Simone – American Journal of Education, 2006
This study examines the production of religious collective memory at a fundamentalist Christian school. By depicting in rich detail what happened on September 11, 2001, in one eighth-grade classroom and how the events of that day were discussed in the weeks that followed, the article reveals the processes wherein the attacks were subsumed into an…
Descriptors: Memory, Educational Practices, Hermeneutics, Christianity
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Conde-Frazier, Elizabeth – Religious Education, 2007
In this reflective essay, the author considers the interpretations, perspectives, and intentions she brings to religious education, and how they become part of the curriculum, influencing not only what she teaches but how she perceives the needs of students. She asserts that instead of focusing on curriculum to solve cultural diversity issues,…
Descriptors: Christianity, Multicultural Education, Educational Environment, World Views
Jarvis, Peter, Ed.; Watts, Mary, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
As our understanding of learning focuses on the whole person rather than individual aspects of learning, so the process of learning is beginning to be studied from a wide variety of perspectives and disciplines. This handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary research into learning: it brings together a diverse range of…
Descriptors: Learning, Perception, Cognitive Processes, Nurses
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Timani, Hussam S. – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2006
This paper explores the role of American Muslim schools in shaping and constructing the identity of Muslim children in the U.S., and shows how Muslim organizations and educators are using these schools to (re)Islamize Muslim children. America's Muslim immigrants believe that without teaching their children the Islamic culture and religion, they…
Descriptors: Muslims, Religious Education, Private Schools, Religious Cultural Groups
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Shadid, Wasif A.; van Koningsveld, Pieter Sjoerd – European Education, 2006
In Dutch primary schools, Islamic religious education is presented in three ways. First, in public schools, parents may ask the municipality to create a facility for religious education (to be given by a local imam, for example) on school premises. Municipalities may also subsidize the teacher's salary. Islamic religious education (up to three…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture, Islam, Elementary Schools
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Mayer, Christine – History of Education, 2006
"Education for all" is a demand that keeps on appearing in various historical contexts and is not just a phenomenon of the modern age. Taking the demand for "education for all" as a normative principle, this paper pursues the questions of how this demand was reflected in pedagogical reform programmes and in what way, as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Educational History, Educational Change
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Fredricks, Lori – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
As EFL programs become more prevalent throughout the world, the cultural implications of English teaching are more often debated. These cultural considerations are extremely relevant in Islamic cultures, where English education can be viewed as contributing to the influence of Western Christian or secular pedagogy. This potential clash of…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Sherr, Michael; Huff, George; Curran, Mary – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2007
This article presents findings from a qualitative study of 120 undergraduate students from seven schools in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. Using in-depth individual and focus group interviews, we explored participants' perceptions of salient indicators of integration of faith and learning (IFL) in the classroom. Findings…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Undergraduate Students, Qualitative Research, Interviews
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Moran, Christy D.; Lang, Dennis James; Oliver, Jenea – Journal of College Student Development, 2007
This phenomenological investigation highlights the experiences of evangelical Christian student leaders at two Midwestern public universities. These students perceived their public university environments not only as incongruent with, but also as antagonistic and oppressive toward, their values, beliefs, and behaviors. Besides detailing how these…
Descriptors: Universities, Student Leadership, Social Status, Student Attitudes
Deckman, Melissa M. – School Administrator, 2006
The author of this article recently studied the impact of the Christian Right on school board politics in a Maryland school district. The six-year situation in Garrett County shows that religious conservatives do not necessarily govern by placing their personal religious views above all else. Governing with Christian Right board members might…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Public Schools, Political Attitudes, Politics of Education
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Song, Sarah – Theory and Research in Education, 2006
This essay examines Susan Moller Okin's writing on conflicts between religious freedom and sex equality, and her criticism of "political liberal" approaches to these conflicts, which I take to be a part of her lifelong critique of the public-private distinction. I argue that, while Okin ultimately accepted a version of the distinction, she was…
Descriptors: Freedom, Religion, Religious Factors, Civil Rights
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