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Redding, Graham – New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 2023
This paper considers the distinctive and peculiar place that Presbyterianism and Presbyterian Church schools occupy in New Zealand's education sector. It offers a critical evaluation of the relationship between the church schools and their Presbyterian heritage and the values to which they refer as they seek to define their special character. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Religious Schools, Religious Factors
Ludlow, Morwenna, Ed.; Methuen, Charlotte, Ed.; Spicer, Andrew, Ed. – Cambridge University Press, 2019
This volume brings together the work of a wide range of scholars to explore the long and complex history of the relationships between churches and education. Christianity has always been involved in education, from the very earliest teaching of those about to be baptised, to present-day churches' involvement in schools and higher education.…
Descriptors: Churches, State Church Separation, Christianity, Educational History
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Morrison, Hugh – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2011
How late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Protestant children supported and interacted with foreign missions is still a relatively undeveloped field of scholarly research. Missionary societies actively recruited children's money, energy and sensibilities for the missionary cause. Sunday school pedagogy and rhetoric focused on cultivating a…
Descriptors: Protestants, Rhetoric, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
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Ormond, Barbara – Curriculum Journal, 2011
This article discusses the increasing emphasis on using pictorial sources in teaching, learning and assessment in history and asserts that pedagogies for interpreting visual imagery need to be purposefully aligned in relation to the particular media or production contexts under study. Expecting students to be able to glean meaning from images…
Descriptors: Imagery, Visual Aids, Foreign Countries, Historians
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Ward, Kevin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
The percentage of the population involved in the Christian church in New Zealand has been declining since the middle of the 1960s. Most seriously affected has been the mainline Protestant denominations such as Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist. This article analyses and presents data collected by the National Church Life Survey New Zealand 2001…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Participation, Attendance Patterns