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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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Fawcett, Bruce G.; Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2021
This paper explores the impact of parental religious practice on sustaining positive religious affect among churchgoing young Canadian Baptists. A total of 299 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Parent Child Relationship, Attendance
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Dilmaghani, Maryam – Education Economics, 2019
The present study assesses how education impacts religiosity. Education is instrumented using the changes in the Canadian school leaving age laws. The data are from the Canadian General Social Surveys collected between 1990 and 2011. The effects of education on both affiliation status and religious attendance are considered. Education is found to…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Catholics, Educational Legislation
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Franken, Leni – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Inspired by the comparative method for RE as outlined by Bråten, this article elaborates on some similarities and differences between the present RE system in Flanders (Belgium) and the past RE system in Québec (Canada). After a brief outline of the societal level, the focus will be on the institutional level, where international, national and…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Legislation
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Orlowski, Paul – in education, 2017
This article describes a study that took place in Saskatchewan, Canada, during 2013-2014. Ten practicing high school social studies teachers who self-identified as Christian answered an unsolicited invitation to participate in a qualitative study about the ways in which they think about social justice. Almost evenly split between Catholic and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Social Studies, Social Justice, High School Teachers
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Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven; Sikkink, David; Pennings, Ray; Seel, John – Journal of School Choice, 2012
This article introduces the research initiated by Cardus on private religious Protestant and Catholic schools in North America and provides an overview of the succeeding articles presented in this special section of the "Journal of School Choice". Through mixed method study by multiple research teams the inquiry was designed to seek to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics
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Van Brummelen, Harro; Koole, Robert – Journal of School Choice, 2012
This article assesses to what extent and how 18 Protestant and Catholic religiously based high schools in Alberta, British Columbia, and Washington state prepare students for cultural awareness and engagement. All schools claimed to educate students to make constructive and significant differences in culture and society. While this was evident in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Sikkink, David – Journal of School Choice, 2012
School sector differences have been the subject of much debate in the literature, but there is limited data that allows careful consideration of differences within the religious school sector. The extensive Catholic school effects literature focuses on issues of school climate, especially an emphasis on persons-in-community, or communal…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Private Schools, Protestants, Catholics
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McGlynn, Claire; Lamarre, Patricia; Laperriere, Anne; Montgomery, Alison – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2009
This article compares experiences of shared schooling in societies with 2 distinctive traits: first, a history of intercommunity conflict and isolation; and second, a segregated school system. Drawing on Parekh's (2006) reconceptualisation of multiculturalism, this article analyses issues arising from experiences of intercommunity contact in…
Descriptors: Protestants, Conflict, Figurative Language, Cultural Pluralism
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Donlevy, J. Kent; Crimmon, A. Mac – Religious Education, 2009
The Canadian province of Alberta is a jurisdiction where religious pluralism is fostered within the public school system. This article is a case study of that phenomenon that briefly reviews the genesis, denouement, and resurrection of Protestant education in Alberta's public schools. Warranted by Alberta's 1988 "alternative school"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Public Schools, Cultural Pluralism
Parker, John, Ed. – Canada Stamp Company, 1905
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1905 through December 1905. Most issues include the following sections: (1) Articles: Original and Selected; (2) Editorial Notes and Comments; (3) Practical Hints; (4) The Funny Column; and (5) Official Department. Some issues include reports…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Protestants, Current Events
Canada Stamp Company, 1906
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January through December 1906. Issues typically include articles on pedagogy, poetry and prose, inspector's reports, superintendent's reports, examination reports, financial statements, official notices, and financial data.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Protestants, Instruction
Canada Stamp Company, 1908
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1908 through December 1908. Issues typically include articles on pedagogy, poetry and prose, inspector's reports, superintendent's reports, examination reports, financial statements, official notices, and financial data. Most issues also…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Protestants, Instruction
Robins, L. B., Ed. – Canada Stamp Company, 1901
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1901 through December 1901. Among the topics covered in this volume are: current events, editorial notes and comments, educational experiments, quarterly meeting of the Protestant Committee, the Provincial Association of Protestant Teachers,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Current Events, Educational Innovation, Protestants
Robins, L. B., Ed. – Canada Stamp Company, 1902
This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1902 through December 1902. Among the topics covered in this volume are: current events, directory of superior schools, educational experiments, minutes of the Protestant Committee, practical hints and examination papers, and the convention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Current Events, Schools
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