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Samuel Thottathil Koshy – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The last three decades have witnessed an exponential growth of the Church in South Asia. Regions that have been formerly closed to the gospel, are beginning to witness an unprecedented harvest. However, South Asia continues to present a daunting challenge to proclaim the uniqueness of Christ within its multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Open Education, Foreign Countries, Christianity
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Stevens, Robin S. – Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, 2023
Choral singing was embraced by many missionaries as a means of attracting potential converts to Christianity. A principal choral singing method in 19th century Britain, Tonic Sol-fa, was introduced by missionaries and others to the Indian subcontinent where it was used as both a pedagogical method and a music notation system. Building on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Singing, Music Techniques, Music Education
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Agarwal, Yamini – British Journal of Religious Education, 2023
Religious minority schools are seen to take on the task of transmitting the normative image of a community, its ideology and culture. Through pedagogy and daily routine practices, schools seek to shape students' ideas of a religion and ways in which it is to be performed. This paper, based on ethnography of a Sikh school in Delhi, explores such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Religious Schools, Religious Cultural Groups
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Deirdre Raftery; Jyoti Atwal; Mags Liddy; Ruth Ferris; Seaneen Sloan; Marie Clarke – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
This article examines the historical backdrop to the involvement of teaching Sisters in convent schooling for girls in India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, since the late nineteenth century. It then explores how, as a consequence of a range of social changes, leadership in convent schools has changed in both countries, across the twentieth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Females, Leadership
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Tschurenev, Jana; Mhaskar, Sumeet – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2023
Looking at the early educational activities of the anti-caste movement in the Western Indian Bombay Presidency (1848-1882), the article sheds light on the diverse, and sometimes contradictory social effects of the colonial encounter. The military defeat of the Maratha Empire, the setting up of colonial educational governance, and the emergence of…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Social Change, Social Class, Indians
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Mousumi, Manjuma Akhtar; Kusakabe, Tatsuya – London Review of Education, 2022
This article examines Muslim parents' private school choice, their understanding of public-private schooling and how they navigate the choice between fee-free public schools and fee-charging private schools. This article draws on qualitative data from open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 38 parents from Muslim-majority areas in Delhi,…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Muslims, Decision Making
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Athreya, Aditi; Goddeeris, Idesbald – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2023
This article studies the relationship between the authorities of newly independent India and mission schools using the case of (and the perspective/sources from) the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in Chotanagpur (then South Bihar, now Jharkhand). These relationships were marked by much tension in the late 1940s and early 1950s. An abundance of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
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M. Christhu Doss – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2024
Women missionaries who came to India with a superior Protestant religious imaginary were keen on critiquing Hindu cultural practices that created divergences and transfigurations. They blatantly proclaimed that the deep-rooted custom of women's "seclusion" was a stumbling block to education, evangelisation and modernisation. This study…
Descriptors: Females, Christianity, Feminism, Religious Cultural Groups
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Suman, Amit Kumar – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2022
The Calcutta "madrasa" was one of the many institutions which witnessed recurrent attempts at reform in Muslim societies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since the eleventh century, when "madrasas" first emerged as the principal institution of higher Islamic learning, it has undergone many changes, adapting in…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Indigenous Knowledge, Islam, Muslims
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du Val d'Epremesnil, Diane – Religious Education, 2021
This article investigates a life education initiative from India, directed at children from primary to the end of secondary school. Over the course of the program, students learn to connect with their emotions and values, to understand that their lives are made of stories, and that they have a place in the larger community as agents of change.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Indians, Change Agents, Program Descriptions
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Balgopal, Meena M.; Gerardo, Nicole M.; Topden, Jampa; Gyatso, Kalden – Science Education, 2021
In formal learning spaces, students must navigate making meaning of both new knowledge and potentially new worldviews. In this qualitative grounded theory study, we examined how adult Buddhist monastic students learned about and described the origin of biodiversity in an introductory biology course. The study was conducted at a Tibetan settlement…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Buddhism, Religious Education
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Shahida – Ethics and Education, 2024
In the 21st century, discussions on the environment actively intersect with religious discourse, purposefully incorporating religious texts and spiritual perspectives to propose effective solutions for addressing the pressing global environmental crisis. Within this context, this study employs a narrative analysis approach, conducting fifteen…
Descriptors: Ethics, Educational Philosophy, Religious Factors, Undergraduate Students
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Clarence, Mukti; Viju, P. D.; George, Tony Sam – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2022
Jesuit schools, in particular, have been known for a long time to be centres of learning in Chotanagpur area, India, where tremendous efforts were made to achieve a high level of academic excellence; yet it appears that this legacy is not being sustained among rural, tribal, vernacular schools of Chotanagpur these days because of varied reasons.…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Religious Education, Catholic Educators, Teacher Attitudes
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Bassi, Tripti – Contemporary Education Dialogue, 2020
Schools are truly 'microcosms of society' since they reflect the larger dynamics of society. Women's position in society also got replicated in their low participation in education among other fields. This article contextualises women's education in the nineteenth-century Punjab. It briefly discusses approaches followed by various stakeholders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Females, Educational History
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Singh, Chandra Lekha – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
In 1893, Annie Besant touched the shores of India as a leader of the Theosophical Society. In India, Besant is widely known for her involvement in the Home Rule Movement and as president of the Indian National Congress, the chief political organisation in the Indian freedom struggle. Before entering into the political arena of the country, Besant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Womens Education, Educational History, Religion
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