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Cultural Order and Parents' Motivations for Practising Home Education in China
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Sheng, Xiaoming – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2020
There is little literature which provides any analysis regarding the relationship between cultural order and home education. Research reported here found that home education has grown steadily in recent decades and that parents' motivation for home education was closely associated with cultural order. It was noticeable that Christian and Confucian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Class, Cultural Influences, Parent Attitudes
Sexuality Education as Political Theology: Pathways to Non-Violence
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Heyes, Joshua M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Thinking sexuality education and religion together often results in antagonisms that pit religious and secular values against each other. Political theology provides new insights into this tendency by showing how modern concepts of political legitimacy are based on secularised Christian theology. Neoliberal schooling, public sexual health and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Sexuality, Religion, Religious Factors
Spirituality to Build Resilience in Primary Caregiver Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Cross-Country Experiment
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Pandya, Samta P. – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2018
Objectives: To examine the effect of spirituality and spiritual training on resilience in primary caregiver parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Methods: A cross-country pre- and post-test-based experimental design has been used. The sample of this one-year-long study comprised 1687 parents of children with ASD in 15…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Parents, Resilience (Psychology)
Education Policy and the Political Right: The Burning Fuse beneath Schooling in the US, UK and Australia. Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics
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Rodwell, Grant – Routledge Research in Education Policy and Politics, 2021
This work attempts a comparative description and analysis, focusing on the US, the UK, and Australia on the topic of the Right, educational policy, and schooling. It adopts as its underlying theme the burning fuse in tracing the topic back to Joseph de Maistre a Rightist who fled revolutionary France to seek safety in the company of Tsar Alexander…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Prayer Lessons to Promote Happiness among Kindergarten School Children: A Cross-Country Experimental Study
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Pandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
Advancing Sexuality Studies: A Short Course on Sexuality Theory and Research Methodologies
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Fletcher, Gillian; Dowsett, Gary W.; Duncan, Duane; Slavin, Sean; Corboz, Julienne – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2013
Critical Sexuality Studies is an emerging field of academic enquiry linked to an international network of advocacy agencies, activists, and political issues. This paper reports on the development of an advanced short course in sexuality theory and research, drawing on Critical Sexuality Studies and aiming directly at academics in developing…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Course Descriptions, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries