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Megan E. Herring – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Acting within a complex authority structure marked by shared governance, the governing boards of higher education institutions serve as the legal body holding ultimate responsibility for the institution's identity, mission, and institutional health. The past and current experience of Protestant theological schools has revealed institutional…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Institutional Mission, Theological Education, Governing Boards
Cassandra Lynn Tarr – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Lutheran schools transform students, families, congregations, and communities. While effective school leadership is crucial for this potential transformation, the difficulties of school leadership continue to increase. Leaders of Christian schools face challenges unique to the parochial context. The purpose of this study was to explore how…
Descriptors: Religious Schools, Protestants, Instructional Leadership, Principals
Derrek Belase – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this project was to explore current methods of onboarding, mentoring, and training district lay leaders in The United Methodist Church in an attempt to provide a new model based on situated learning (legitimate peripheral participation) for doing this work in the changing environment of the church and culture. The author surveyed…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Lay People, Protestants, Churches
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Leslie J. Francis; Ursula McKenna; Susan H. Jones – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
Metaphors were introduced to the science of cathedral studies by Muskett in her book, "Shop window, flagship, common ground." Such metaphors have the power to inform and shape the perception of cathedrals, but lack theological or ecclesial authority. Gary Hall's analysis of "The purpose of cathedrals" offers a different…
Descriptors: Churches, Religious Education, Christianity, Protestants
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Nico Broer; Bram de Muynck; Laura Boele-de Bruin; Albert de Vries; Fianne N. de With – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
Children's religious education is vital for the formation of pupils in Dutch Orthodox Protestant schools. Therefore, it seems self-evident that parents and teachers cooperate. This article presents research on parents' and teachers' opinions about the helpfulness of cooperative practices in religious education. A total of 1346 parents and teachers…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Protestants, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Religious Schools
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Malte Brügge-Feldhake; Ulrich Riegel; Mirjam Zimmermann – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Many approaches within subject didactics have in common that they highlight the importance of perspective taking, precisely describe the benefits of this skill and develop didactical scenarios in which this skill is crucial. Nevertheless, there is a diagnosed lack of a differentiated didactical model on how to teach perspective taking step by…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Religious Education, Definitions, Models
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Alexander Unser – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
This article draws on the ongoing discussion in some European countries about whether and how non-religious worldviews and pupils should be included in religious education (RE). This discussion lacks empirical knowledge about the specific learning conditions of these pupils in RE -- a desideratum that this article addresses. Building on a…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Beliefs, World Views, Classification
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Piljoo P. Kang – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
This study investigates the influence of church mentoring on the psychosocial development of adolescents from immigrant and ethnic minority backgrounds. Framed within ecological systems and sociocultural theories, it examines mentoring processes in fostering positive youth development. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with fifteen…
Descriptors: Mentors, Churches, Ethnic Groups, Social Bias
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Francis Davis – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
The developing science of cathedral studies has focused mainly on Anglican cathedrals. The present study argues for drawing Catholic cathedrals into this field. Employing data gathered from the websites of the 22 Catholic cathedrals in England and Wales, alongside data gathered from the diocesan reports submitted to the Charity Commission, this…
Descriptors: Catholics, Churches, Web Sites, Institutional Mission
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Joel Barnes – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
This article examines the place of evolutionary science in protestant and Catholic residential colleges associated with Australian public universities across the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Although faith-based universities are a relatively recent phenomenon in Australia, a quasi-federal model of secular teaching and accrediting…
Descriptors: Evolution, Science Education, Foreign Countries, Religious Colleges
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Lesley Abbott; Samuel McGuinness – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2024
Schooling for Northern Ireland children has over decades been in denominationally separate schools, until an integrated system was instigated by concerned parents in the late 1970s amidst growing political violence. By educating together Catholic and Protestant pupils and those of other religions or none, the hope was to contribute to peace in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Factors, Catholics, Protestants
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Sarah Henseler; Mary Grace Neville; Hind Lebdaoui – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
As emerging adult college students ponder their religious/spiritual beliefs and identities, those in religiously diverse countries (e.g. the USA) often encounter beliefs different from their own. These encounters can prompt new perspectives on their own beliefs and elicit responses from rejection to incorporation of the diverging belief, thus…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Self Concept, Cultural Differences
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Perry L. Glanzer – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
A recent global reconnaissance of Christian higher education found a number of key themes that shaped current developments, such as the pressing challenges of secularization and nationalization but also the advantages of privatization and massification. This article provides an update to this older analysis by taking a birds-eye view of trends…
Descriptors: Christianity, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Religious Education
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Alison Johnson; Rian R. Djita; Lynn E. Swaner – Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Teacher quality is one of the most important factors influencing a student's educational outcomes, yet scant research has examined teacher hiring and quality in Protestant Christian schools. In this qualitative work, we thematically analyze interviews about Christian schools' teacher hiring practices with a group of 12 leaders from 10 member…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Teacher Qualifications, Christianity
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M. Christhu Doss – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Women missionaries who came to India with a superior Protestant religious imaginary were keen on critiquing Hindu cultural practices that created divergences and transfigurations. They blatantly proclaimed that the deep-rooted custom of women's "seclusion" was a stumbling block to education, evangelisation and modernisation. This study…
Descriptors: Females, Christianity, Feminism, Religious Cultural Groups
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