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Puchner, Laurel; Markowitz, Linda – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
To reduce Christo-normativity in United States of America schools, most schools tend to only educate teachers about what religious practices are allowed by law. The question we ask is whether a focus on structural policies, like law, works. We apply Bourdieu's theory of habitus, capital, and field to discuss the findings from 27 interviews we…
Descriptors: Christianity, Holidays, Laws, Social Capital
Jamie Leigh-Taitano Arreola – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This study of over 100 kindergarten through 12th grade teachers in southern California focused on the exploration of teacher spirituality, specifically relationship with God and spiritual connection to others, through investigating its predictive role on teacher self-efficacy, specifically efficacy in student engagement, instructional strategies,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Characteristics, Spiritual Development
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Scott, John Trevitt; Armstrong, Ann Cheryl – Power and Education, 2016
This article is set in the context of multicultural 21st-century Australia, whose diversity is marked by religious plurality as well as varied ethnic groupings. The article reports on a study of professional learning in three Australian faith-based schools (Christian, Jewish and Muslim) that investigated the role such schools might play in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Ethnic Groups, Religious Cultural Groups, Religious Education