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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
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Vauclair, Christin-Melanie; Wilson, Marc; Fischer, Ronald – Journal of Moral Education, 2014
Whether moral conceptions are universal or culture-specific is controversial in moral psychology. One option is to refrain from imposing theoretical constraints and to ask laypeople from different cultures how "they" conceptualize morality. Our article adopts this approach by examining laypeople's associations of moral character in…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Individualism, Group Dynamics
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Gillies, Donald – Journal of Pedagogy, 2011
Human Capital Theory has been an increasingly important phenomenon in economic thought over the last 50 years. The central role it affords to education has become even more marked in recent years as the concept of the "knowledge economy" has become a global concern. In this paper, the prevalence of Human Capital Theory within European…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Educational Policy, Social Values, Moral Values
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Bryan, Audrey; Vavrus, Frances – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2005
This article addresses the pedagogical implications and possibilities that globalisation poses for educational policy and praxis as it relates to teaching about difference in an ever more diverse world. Among the most salient questions in an era of accelerated globalisation is how seemingly different cultures, civilisations, nationalities,…
Descriptors: Poverty, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Multicultural Education