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Blinkova, Alexandra; Vermeer, Paul – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
RE in Russia has been recently introduced as a compulsory regular school subject during the last year of elementary school. The present study offers a critical analysis of the current practice of Russian RE by comparing it with RE in Sweden, Denmark and Britain. This analysis shows that Russian RE is ambivalent. Although it is based on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Comparative Education, Christianity
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Willems, Frank; Denessen, Eddie; Hermans, Chris; Vermeer, Paul – Journal of Moral Education, 2012
This is a study of teachers' modelling of civic virtues in the classroom. It focusses on three virtues of good citizenship: justice, tolerance and solidarity. The aim is to explore the extent to which teachers can be regarded as models of these virtues. Questionnaires were developed for both students and teachers. Factor analyses showed that the…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Student Attitudes, Citizenship Education, Foreign Countries
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Willems, Frank; Denessen, Eddie; Hermans, Chris; Vermeer, Paul – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2013
It may be argued that, from a virtue-ethical perspective, three aspects of a teacher's role in moral classroom conversations are of primary importance: (1) encouraging students to be morally reasonable, (2) stimulating the students' emotional involvement, and (3) guiding students toward a normative ideal of virtue. This study sets out to explore…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Moral Values, Comparative Analysis, Ethics