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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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Ellinghaus, Katherine; Judd, Barry – History of Education, 2023
This paper argues that Aboriginal children's engagement with education in the central Australian region of the Northern Territory in the mid-twentieth century can be understood as strategic engagements with formal western education systems and assimilation policies. It addresses a methodological problem stemming from a project that focuses on the…
Descriptors: Protestants, Educational History, Indigenous Populations, Multiracial Persons
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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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Kerby, Martin; Baguley, Margaret; MacDonald, Abbey; Cruickshank, Vaughan – Irish Educational Studies, 2022
In the years either side of Federation in 1901, Australia's Irish Catholics balanced two often contradictory impulses: their determination to retain their cultural and religious links with Ireland in the face of an often unsympathetic Protestant majority, and the desire to become 'good' Australians in order to make 'a go' of their lives in the new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Catholics, Immigrants, Protestants
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Possamai, Adam; Possamai-Inesedy, Alphia; Piracha, Awais – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
While the preference for university by school leavers has been researched extensively, this article seeks to explore if religious influence might also come to play when selecting a university, with particular reference to Australia, a country whose higher education environment is largely made up of public, secular universities. The data used is…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, College Choice, State Universities, Preferences
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Francis, Leslie J.; Penny, Gemma; Powell, Ruth – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
Drawing on data from the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey (NCLS), this study was designed to assess peer and parental influence on frequency of church attendance, attitude toward church, and attitude toward Christianity among a sample of 6256 young churchgoers between the ages of eight and 14 years, attending a range of denominations,…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Parent Influence, Churches, Attendance
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Whitehead, Kay; Andretzke, Elaine; Binali, Valesi – Gender and Education, 2018
This article explores commonalities in the lives and work of women head teachers in Malawian secondary schools and women principals in Australian Lutheran schools. In both Australia and Malawi women are under-represented in school leadership and often appointed to complex schools and communities. We commence with a brief discussion of Malawi and…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, Secondary Schools, Foreign Countries, School Administration
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Hastie, David – English in Australia, 2017
Australian Protestant schools have often been depicted as sites that restrict knowledge. This paper presents the findings of a 2010-2013 field study of 137 teachers, exploring the nature and extent of Protestant School English teacher self-censorship when excluding and selecting texts to teach. In both survey and interview data, I find that the…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Academic Freedom, Censorship, Protestants
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Francis, Leslie J.; Penny, Gemma – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2016
Drawing on data from the 2011 Australian National Church Life Survey, this study was designed to assess the connection between religious affect (as a measure of Christian commitment) and global happiness (as a measure of personal well being) among a sample of 6,194 young churchgoers in Australia between the ages of 8 and 14 years, attending a…
Descriptors: Christianity, Churches, Foreign Countries, Religious Factors
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Hastie, David – English in Australia, 2014
Exploring Australian school text censorship has a long pedigree in "English in Australia." This article aims to contribute by observing attempts by parents to censor English texts in religious schools. A brief summary of "EIA"'s previous approaches is followed by an explanation of the method of my research with NSW Protestant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Censorship, Textbooks
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Schulz, Samantha – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2011
This paper develops out of research concerning the place of white teachers and social constructions of "white good" in South Australia's Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) lands. Here I focus on an era known as the Ernabella "mission days" (1937-1971), a time when Presbyterian missionaries are typically thought to have…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Discipline, Race, Indigenous Populations
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Bower, Lorraine – Christian Higher Education, 2010
Integration or connectedness between faith and learning is a core aim of Protestant evangelical colleges and universities. It is pursued in a number of different ways in the academic programs of these institutions, even in commercially oriented courses that they offer, such as graphic design. However, the different ways that practical and…
Descriptors: Graphic Arts, Protestants, Design Crafts, Church Related Colleges
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Symes, Colin; Gulson, Kalervo N. – Educational Policy, 2008
Fundamentalist and evangelical Christianity is growing in popularity in Australia, concurrent with the ascendancy of the new Christian school. This article examines the historical and policy landscapes that have given rise to this educational phenomenon and draws some links with other education systems, particularly the United States. It is argued…
Descriptors: Christianity, Foreign Countries, Parochial Schools, Politics of Education
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Sherington, Geoffrey; Campbell, Craig – Education Research and Perspectives, 2004
In a recent study Judith Brett has raised the "problematic" of the middle class in Australia and its support for a liberal tradition where the prime focus is on the individual citizen rather than the state. She suggests that Australian liberalism was drawn from the heritage of British Protestant dissent with its ethic of independently…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Political Attitudes, Middle Class
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Fysh, Robert; Lucas, Keith B. – Research in Science Education, 1998
Beliefs about science and religion held by students (n=44), teachers (n=10), and clergy (n=4) in a Lutheran secondary school in Australia were assessed via survey and interview. Participants' views of the relationship between science and religious beliefs were complex. Concludes that traditional science programs do not adequately address the range…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Clergy, Foreign Countries, Philosophy
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