To study the nature of their cultural identities, 50 Asian adolescents from 3 multicultural schools in England were interviewed about their views on a variety of personal, social, and educational matters. It was found that they are developing bicultural identities. (18 references) (LB)

The U.S. experiment in religious liberty has enormous significance for the United States and for the world. The challenging dilemma of living with the deepest religious differences, as it is currently being met in the United States, is explored in this essay. The point that U.S. success or failure in attempts to deal with religious liberty has…

Can church-supported schools provide an adequate education to nonmembers in multiethnic communities? Should the state finance such schools, and how can the state decide which schools to fund? These and other questions about the validity of church-supported schools in pluralistic societies like Great Britain are raised. (IS)

If there is a problem about giving a distinctively Anglican education to Muslim or Hindu children, then similar problems arise about the religious education of any child in any school who is also being brought up, either inside or outside school, as an adherent of a particular faith. (IS)

Proposes guidelines for acknowledging the role of religion in U.S. society, while not causing discomfort for any students. Suggests that studying about religious holidays in the public schools helps to broaden students understanding of different cultures. (DB)

Teacher educators are being challenged to prepare teacher candidates for work with diverse students. For teacher candidates to work effectively with students from diverse cultures in all grade levels, they need to become familiar with some of the major issues that students confront in today's society. The study of children's literature from…

In this essay I reflect on my experience thus far of teaching Islam as a non-Muslim at Metropolitan State University and at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. I begin by narrating a conversation about conversation that I had with one of my Muslim students. Then I introduce the theme of multiplicity as a way of…

In Malaysia, the national moral education curriculums are designed to develop the values that Malaysians of diverse cultures share or that the government wishes to develop as shared values to bring about religious and ethnic harmony. Moral education for Muslims is incorporated into in-school religious education, while a separate, essentially…

John Dewey's profound influence on Alexander Dushkin's formulation of educational philosophy as it influenced the aims of Jewish education, cultural pluralism, the child-centered approach to education, and functional teaching ethics is examined. Dushkin's definition of Jewish education is developed from psychological, sociological, and religious…

Discusses the increasingly multicultural nature of California's population. Questions whether multiculturalism can be incorporated into Christian education. Provides a checklist of multicultural religious education programs divided into knowledge, skill, and attitude components. (CFR)

Explores how the wider society should decide which minority practices can be tolerated and which should be banned for the good of the whole society. Principles of toleration cannot be set down in advance, but should be developed through open-minded dialog aimed at reasonable consensus. (SLD)

In this manual activities centering around ethnic holidays are provided for use by elementary school teachers within a normal classroom setting. Introductory activities are designed to increase students' awareness of the seasonal nature of celebrations. In addition, the relationship is demonstrated between the values of a people and the content,…

Offers a lesson for secondary students that addresses the role of public schools in religious expression where the students consider how or if schools can accommodate the religious needs of students. Focuses on the religious obligations of Muslim students as a case study. Provides a student handout. (CMK)

This paper examines the rhetoric and consequences of extreme religious right-wing groups' attack on American public schools. The first section identifies two competing world perspectives, the modern and postmodern perspectives. The second section identifies the fundamental principle that enables the two competing perspectives to coexist: the First…

The education of ethnic minorities in China is explored, addressing issues that relate to state schooling, ethnicity, and development. Minority religions, which traditionally provided much of the education outside of the family, are tolerated increasingly officially, but not really recognized in state schooling. Language is another major challenge…