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Eleanor L. Rivera – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
In the Early Third Republic (c. 1880-1914), the role of Catholic educators was called into question by the convergence of two different calls for change within French society. As the government of the Third Republic sought to reform primary-school instruction, there were renewed debates in French society about the role of Catholic institutions.…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Catholic Educators, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Moog, François – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2023
Because it has experienced a process of secularisation for more than three centuries, France can be considered as a laboratory of the relevance of faith in a society for which it is no longer the cultural matrix. By showing how the central question of secularisation is in fact that of the relationship between faith and culture, this article…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Religious Factors, Cultural Pluralism
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Gordt, Simon – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
In the course of the institutionalisation of modern school systems, the originally confessional schooling sector was largely transformed into a system regulated by public law, a process which is interpreted as secularisation. In a historical-comparative analysis, the secularisation paths of the classical educational nations England and France are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religion, Educational History, Catholics
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Ferrara, Carol – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
France's secular political culture, Catholic heritage, and tumultuous relationship with Islam have had a significant impact on 21st-century interpretations, perceptions, and politicisations of religious education in French society. Since religious education is relegated to the French private school system, it is decentralised, complex, and vastly…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Islam
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Mitterle, Alexander – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2022
Today, the term 'global' has become a pervasive description of universities that aim to alleviate their importance and reach. The global looks inherently big. By relating to a spherical shape it attributes size in two distinct ways: it signifies the comprehensive and extensive reach of a theme or issue as well as the spherical centrality of an…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Universities, Educational History, Institutional Characteristics
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LeBlanc, Robert Jean – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2021
In this article, the author outlines some of the defensive weapons with which schools fight to hold their institutional authority over knowledge in a changing educational landscape. If schools are gripped by a crisis of epistemic authority, what are their strategies of shoring up their jurisdiction? To explore this question, the author turns to…
Descriptors: Educational Sociology, Role of Religion, Religious Factors, Institutional Autonomy