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Oplatka, Izhar; Vertaimer, Riki – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2023
Purpose: The current study explored the process of emotion regulation among Ultra-Orthodox female teachers in Jewish educational system in Israel. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a semi-structured interview comprising 13 Ultra-Orthodox female teachers in single-sex education for girls. Findings: The teachers preferred to suppress…
Descriptors: Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Attitudes, Single Sex Schools, Religious Factors
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Scales, T. Laine; Tang, Agnes – American Educational History Journal, 2014
On the eve of her birthday, August 14, 1904, the young Jewell Legett recorded in her diary that she had "been feeling so strange today … 20 years old! What an age it is! Just the time to be a girl and learn to live" (Legett 1904). Her summer vacation from the 1903-1904 term at Baylor University was spent with her parents and brothers in…
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Women Administrators, Females
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Ross, Rosetta E. – Religious Education, 2012
Historian of religions Charles Long uses the term "American cultural language" to identify discursive challenges to democracy and social justice in the Unites States. The American cultural language, Long says, is the "misinterpretation" of humanness and freedom conveyed when the term "American"--used to signify…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Freedom, Females, Democracy
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Weiss, Charles S. – Liberal Education, 2009
Among the distinguishing characteristics of higher education in the United States is the stunning range of founding belief systems and missions. Many of the nation's colleges and universities were created out of passion to educate women, ministers, African Americans, immigrants, the rural poor; to advance causes, to educate within a particular…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Beliefs, Economically Disadvantaged
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Reinert, Duane F.; Smith, Caroline E. – Counseling and Values, 1997
Spiritual development in religiously involved lay women was studied. Differences were found between those who had or had not experienced sexual abuse in childhood, suggesting that the sexually abused may turn to their faith and spirituality for support. Additional findings and implications for spiritual development and counseling are discussed.…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Abuse, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
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Johnson-Miller, Beverly – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2005
Understanding the complexity of religious transformation requires empirical contextualized research on the continuous dynamic relationship between formation and transformation. Narrative study in context unveils the implicit meaning of phenomena made explicit in stories. This article, through a biographical case study of a Mennonite woman's…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Biographies, Case Studies, Religious Cultural Groups