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Rollocks, Steve C. T.; Dass, Natasha; Seepersad, Randy; Mohammed, Linda – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
This study examined the role of religiosity among adolescents' and adults' alcohol use in Trinidad. A stratified random sample design of 369 adolescents and 210 adult parents belonging to the various religious groups in Trinidad was employed. Participants were randomly selected from various educational districts across Trinidad. Adolescent…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Intervention, Drinking, Adolescents
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McGlynn, Claire; Bekerman, Zvi – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
This paper considers issues related to integration in education, specifically those related to the integration of ethnic/religious populations in conflict. The case study we will use is the educating together of Catholic and Protestant children and Palestinian and Jewish children in two troubled societies, Northern Ireland and Israel, where…
Descriptors: Protestants, Jews, Catholics, School Desegregation
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Mullins, Larry C.; Brackett, Kimberly P.; Bogie, Donald W.; Pruett, Daniel – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
This study examines the question Does the rate of currently divorced in counties in the United States vary inversely to the relative percentage of concentration of adherents of seven different religious denominational groupings--Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, conservative Protestant, moderate Protestant, liberal Protestant, and miscellaneous…
Descriptors: Protestants, Jews, Counties, Divorce
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Granleese, Jacqueline; Joseph, Stephen – Personality and Individual Differences, 1994
A previous study confirmed the factor structure (scholastic competence, social acceptance, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavior, and global self-worth) of the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) for a sample of Protestant adolescents living in Northern Ireland. The present study replicated the SPPC factor structure for a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Catholics, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
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Alexander, Kern – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas writing for a plurality of the Court in "Mitchell v. Helms" in 2000 advanced the idea that state constitutional prohibitions against public funding of religious schools were manifestations of anti-Catholic bigotry in the late 19th century. Thomas' reading of history and law led him to…
Descriptors: Public Support, Financial Support, Parochial Schools, Educational Finance
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Leonard, Madeleine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2006
In segregated societies such as Northern Ireland, schools may become sites of risk rather than sites of learning. This is particularly likely to be the case in interface areas, which are demarcated by peace-lines and other symbolic boundaries. Drawing on maps and focus group discussions with teenagers from interface areas in North Belfast, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Risk, Focus Groups
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Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Barnes, L. Philip; Sion, Tania ap – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Northern Ireland is a province that remains deeply divided between Protestants and Catholics and maintains a segregated system of schools. Purpose: The research builds on a series of studies conducted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to monitor the attitude toward Christianity of males and females educated in Protestant and Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Females
Kalish, Richard A.; Goldberg, Helene – Death Education, 1978
On the whole, the experiences of clergy with funerals and funeral directors were positive, although a significant minority provided negative judgements. The general consensus of the clergy was that people did need more protection from inappropriate funeral practices than they were presently getting. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Catholics, Clergy, Death
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Harford, Judith – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This article examines the network of women's colleges which emerged in Ireland in the latter half of the nineteenth century in response to women's exclusion from the realm of the university and their desire to participate in higher education. These colleges, run largely along denominational lines, were situated in the major cities with the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Single Sex Colleges, Womens Education, Middle Class
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Muldoon, Orla T.; McLaughlin, Katrina; Trew, Karen – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2007
This paper examines the perceived influence of parents and family and the construction of national and religious identification amongst adolescents theoretically sampled from along the border between the Irish Republic and the Northern Ireland. Two hundred and sixty-one young people wrote essays on the meaning of their national identity and the…
Descriptors: Socialization, Nationalism, Student Attitudes, Identification (Psychology)
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Canales, Arthur David – Religious Education, 2006
This study addresses eight models for "doing" ecclesial adolescent ministry in the United States from both a Catholic and ecumenical perspective. The article offers youth ministers in the field with creative insights to further enhance their ministry with adolescents. The eight models represent an inclusive theological and pastoral…
Descriptors: Models, Adolescents, Catholics, Protestants
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Beneke, Chris – American Educational History Journal, 2006
From the colonial period to the present, no form of integration (defined as the opening of institutions and communal spaces to members of different groups) has produced more conflict than the integration of American schools. Struggles to open other locations within the social landscape--such as railroad cars, buses, restaurant counters, and water…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, Social Integration, Religious Discrimination
Frezon, Peggy – Teaching Tolerance, 2006
Seamus Hodgkinson was raised in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles," a time of religious unrest and violence. Thousands of lives were lost as hatred between Catholic and Protestant groups escalated into intense battles. In 1957, Hodgkinson left Northern Ireland to accept a teaching position at the newly formed Doane Stuart School in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Protestants, Catholics, Violence
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Robbins, Mandy; Francis, Leslie J. – Research in Education, 2008
This study draws together two research traditions: John Greer's pioneering research among pupils in Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland and Leslie J. Francis's research concerning teenage religion and values in England and Wales. A sample of 1,585 13- to 15-year-old male pupils attending Catholic schools (n = 712) and Protestant…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, World Views
Symon, Roger – Times Educational Supplement (London), 1975
Author reported on a community in Northern Ireland where religion is no longer a dirty word. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Catholics, Conflict Resolution, Problem Solving, Protestants
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