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Turula, Anna, Ed.; Kurek, Malgorzata, Ed.; Lewis, Tim, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2019
This collection of short papers is an outcome of the third conference on virtual exchange in higher education hosted by the Pedagogical University in Krakow in April 2018. Following the focus of the conference on virtual exchange in service of social inclusion and global citizenship, the papers collected in this volume offer first-hand insights…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Inclusion, Telecommunications, International Educational Exchange
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Satyanarayana, P.; DK Meduri, Emmanuel – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Distance Education has been growing fast, in a marvelously diverse fashion. The efficiency, effectiveness, validity and utility of distance teaching-learning are on increase. All communities and religious groups are making use of distance learning methodology to upgrade their knowledge, skills and attitudes. Christian educational institutions in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Technology Uses in Education, Christianity
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Le Tran, Mai-Anh – Religious Education, 2011
Religious learning within the currents of global cultural flows necessitates risky movements into "terra incognita"--be they unknown internal landscapes of the mind and heart in religious knowing, or external territories of culture, ideas, and the politics of identification. Drawing on insights gained from three seminary-sponsored…
Descriptors: Cartography, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Teaching Methods
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Lempert, Michael – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2012
Rather than assume the relevance of "a priori" scalar distinctions (micro-, macro-, meso-), this article examines scale as an emergent dimension of sociospatial practice in educational institutions. Focusing on Buddhist debate at Tibetan monasteries in India, I describe how this educational practice has been placed as a rite of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Thomas, Alvin; Kellom, Gar E. – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2009
A major historical shift is taking place in Tibetan Buddhism with the relocation of large numbers of monks from Tibet and the establishment of monasteries in Dharamsala, India and other parts of South Asia. This has created a shift in the way that young men are joining these monasteries and leading this age old religious tradition. Fifteen college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Buddhism, Interviews
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Ozanne, William I. – Comparative Education, 2010
Faith ethos education has subjective elements in it that are elusive to planners and administrators of national and international systems. This paper looks at how Sikhs, a minority group both in India and in other countries to which they have migrated manage to retain their faith-based education programmes successfully and yet relate to the…
Descriptors: Community Development, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Spiritual Development
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Scharer, Matthias – Religious Education, 2010
The author believes that the future of learning religion and religiously learning does not primary depend on new methods or medias transferring faith or religiosity to people's lives. It depends more on a change of theological awareness and of people's ways of theologizing in the midst of cultural flow in order to get a deeper understanding of the…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Religion, Foreign Countries, Philosophy
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Maoz, Darya; Bekerman, Zvi – Journal of Jewish Education, 2009
Fundamentalists and modernists seem, at times, to work in contrapuntal interdependency. While the fundamentalist's rhetoric markets its image as celebrating the renewal of an authentic past identity in modernity, modernists state the need for and possibility of adapting a cherished past to modern assumptions. Yet, it seems as if it is the…
Descriptors: Jews, Day Schools, Learning Activities, Foreign Countries
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Simmer-Brown, Judith, Ed.; Grace, Fran, Ed. – SUNY Press, 2011
"Meditation and the Classroom" inventively articulates how educators can use meditation to educate the whole student. Notably, a number of universities have initiated contemplative studies options and others have opened contemplative spaces. This represents an attempt to address the inner life. It is also a sign of a new era, one in…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Instruction, Higher Education, Religion Studies
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Jeffrey, Craig; Jeffery, Roger; Jeffery, Patricia – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2008
This paper explores the cultural and economic strategies of educated but un/under-employed young Muslim men aged between 20 and 34 in a village in western Uttar Pradesh, north India. Drawing on Connell's gender theory, the paper demonstrates how economic and political forces shape Muslim young men's strategies. The paper distinguishes between…
Descriptors: Muslims, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Males
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Cannon, Garland – History of Education Quarterly, 1973
In reviewing "Missionaries and Education in Bengal 1793-1837" by M. A. Laird, which relates the efforts of Christian missionaries to educational policy, the author applauds Laird's descriptive achievement but is disappointed by his isolation of education from its context in Indian history. (JH)
Descriptors: Asian History, Comparative Education, Educational History, Literature Reviews
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Malikail, Joseph S. – Paedogogica Historica, 1973
Discusses the present constitutional provisions regarding the teaching of religion and morality in schools in India. Traces both how the principle of State neutrality in religious education and the practice of grant-in-aid to denominational schools were evolved during the early period of British rule. (Author/WM)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Legislation, Educational Policy, Government Role
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Tucker, Mary Evelyn – NAMTA Journal, 1998
Brings religion and natural science into a new whole, as the basis of religious trust and faith. Characterizes religion as mediating between nature and the individual, and provides examples from the major religious traditions. Explains the challenge of knowing the universe by linking the inner self with the natural world. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Evolution, Foreign Countries, Natural Sciences, Naturalism
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Hill, Jack A. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2005
How can teaching and living abroad impact our teaching in North America? This article explores how what I do teaching religion and ethics to undergraduates at Texas Christian University has been influenced by twelve years of teaching in the two-thirds world. It is structured in terms of three insights that correlate with what I call the past,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience, Religious Education, Ethical Instruction
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Allender, Tim – History of Education, 2003
Focuses on the dominant Anglican missionary schools in Punjab (India). States that the Anglican missions failed to fulfill their original design, but that Hindu schools were successful and played a role in India's movement for independence over British settlements in the northern region. (KDR)
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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