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Sutton, Jonathan – 1996
This book seeks to assess how, after 70 years of hostility and restriction in the former Soviet Union, religion could be made accessible to students and to young men training for the priesthood. A study of religious and theological education in Russia and the Ukraine is reported in which over 50 institutions were visited, including independent…
Descriptors: Christianity, Church Related Colleges, Comparative Education, Educational Environment
Lopata, Helen Znaniecka – 1994
This book examines Polonia, the Polish ethnic community in America created by three giant waves of immigration between 1880 and 1990. The complicated history of this ethnic group is reflected in the lives of increasing numbers of Polish Americans, including recent immigrants brought by political and economic changes, as they achieve middle class…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Catholic Schools, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background
Jarvis, Peter, Ed.; Walters, Nicholas, Ed. – 1993
The following chapters are included in this book: "Learning as a Religious Phenomenon?" (Jarvis); "Truth, Belief, and Knowledge" (Clark); "The Authority of the Word" (Ferro); "The Priesthood of the Teacher--Language and the Teaching of the Word" (McCaffry); "Teaching--Catechism, Preaching, and Indoctrination" (Willis); "Meaning, Being, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Beliefs, Church Role, Community Education
Chagnon, Jacquelyn, Comp.; Rumpf, Roger, Comp. – 1976
This booklet, prepared for the 1977 World Day of Peace, examines the growing use of torture by governments around the world. It specifically focuses on torture and imprisonment of political prisoners as systematic violations of human rights. The booklet includes: a background essay which discusses human rights in the context of U.S. foreign…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Civil Liberties, Foreign Policy
Green, Elizabeth Alden – 1979
The efforts of Mary Lyon, virtually singlehandedly, to raise money, recruit students, and plan the academic development of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, founded in 1837, are detailed in this book. The founder sought to educate women through rigorous application of the intellect, which she believed to lead to salvation. In doing so she…
Descriptors: Biographies, Books, College Administration, Curriculum Development
Punke, Harold H. – 1981
Written from the perspective that specific myths profoundly influence educational outlooks and practices, this book points out that such views may outlive their usefulness. The publication explores the nature and origin of myths, particular myths embodied in American education, the creation and obsolescence of myths in a dynamic culture, and the…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Civil Rights, Competition, Curriculum
Biswas, A.; Agrawal, S. P. – 1986
This volume offers a selection of documentary materials on Indian education in three parts: Part 1 presents a "Historical Survey of Documents Before Independence" and includes four chapters covering education from the beginnings in the 17th century through the 20th century transition toward national education. Part 2, titled…
Descriptors: Conference Proceedings, Educational Finance, Educational History, Educational Planning
Worton, Stanley N. – 1975
The historical development of First Amendment freedoms and recent events refining their interpretation, particularly in regard to religious freedom, are presented in this first of a series of three books on the Bill of Rights. The book contains primary sources dealing with freedom of conscience and religious liberty from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and…
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Constitutional History, Freedom of Speech
Dixon, Dorothy Arnett – 1975
This teaching and resource guide contains ideas appropriate for teaching junior and senior high school students about the following religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shintoism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Individual sections discuss general approaches to teaching the religious philosophies and rituals, and exemplary…
Descriptors: Asian Studies, Bibliographies, Christianity, Global Approach
Marsden, George M. – 1994
This book examines the role of Protestantism in America's colleges and universities, tracing the history of the influence of religion on these institutions from preeminence to obscurity, from the founding of Harvard in the 1630s through the collapse of the traditional establishment in the 1960s. Ranging from stories of many of our pace-setting…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Catholics, Church Related Colleges, Colleges
Piediscalzi, Nicholas, Ed.; Collie, William E., Ed. – 1977
Sixteen articles written by various authors are contained in this book about teaching religion in public schools. Developed for both elementary and secondary programs, the articles detail current practices. Models and units of study are suggested for teaching religion in different subject areas, including language arts, humanities, and social…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Development, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Langland, Elizabeth, Ed.; Gove, Walter, Ed. – 1983
Views on the impact of women's studies and the feminist perspective in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences are presented in nine essays. Each essay concludes that while women's studies has the potential power to transform the academic disciplines, it has yet to alter college and university curricula. A second theme that emerged from…
Descriptors: Anthropology, College Curriculum, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism
Beck, Clive – 1990
The purpose of this book is to identify schooling goals and suggest what form of schooling is needed to achieve them. Although schools manage to care for children and give them a solid social, cultural, and intellectual grounding they also massively deprive children of intellectual and cultural stimulation and enormously distort children's…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Ecology, Economics Education, Educational Change
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Gallin, Alice, Ed. – Current Issues in Catholic Higher Education, 1990
Issues on college student life are presented, focusing on first, the results of a questionnaire survey asking Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) college and university presidents to name what they consider to be the three most immediate student life concerns and, second, ACCU Student Life Task Force discussions on the data…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Alcohol Abuse, Catholic Schools, Church Related Colleges
Devins, Neal E. – 1989
Controversy surrounding private education involves questions of compulsory education's role in inculcating values, how much alike public and private schools should be, and the duty of educational institutions to conform to constitutional norms. This book examines government regulation and resistance, legislative and judicial approaches, and issues…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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