Presents a tribute to the late Bishop Francis W. Howard for his many contributions to Catholic education. Presents insights into his character: his desire to spread the Catholic faith through Catholic education, his priestly involvements, his keen social awareness, and his work with the National Catholic Educational Association. (VWC)

Christian religious educators in the Religious Education Association are challenged to reclaim their theological nerve and their partnership in public conversations about the educational practices of U.S. society. Beginning with the work of Randolph Crump Miller in the 1950s, this essay traces through the pages of Religious Education the dialogue…

Offers a textual map of ways that two Church Missionary Society women, Marianne Coldham Williams and Jane Nelson Williams, established networks predominantly with their evangelical sisters in England that simultaneously supported, justified, and reinforced their work as missionary educators in Aotearoa, New Zealand from 1823 to 1840. (KDR)

This article is based on an ethnographic study I conducted in southern Morocco during 2004. I explore the historical, ideological, and cultural background behind educational specialization among Moroccan university students. I describe how French colonial educational policies and postindependence Moroccan national schooling ideologies have created…

Traces the form and content of educational offerings in the traditional monastic schools of Thailand. Although its primary schools now teach secular'' subjects, almost 50 percent are still situated in Buddhist monasteries. (WM)

Presents the history of Seventh-day Adventist education, examining: its founding in 1872; the closing of Battle Creek College, development of ministerial institutes, and creation of Avondale College in the late 1800s; the church-school movement; the drive to worldwide mission; founder Ellen White's educational philosophy; the move toward…

The 100th anniversary of any organization's founding is an occasion for celebration. At the least, one can celebrate the organization's longevity in surviving for a whole century. The organization has to be doing something right to exist that long. The Religious Education Association (REA) has done many good things in its 100 years of existence.…

At least 10% of students in private Christian schools are considered students with special needs. Private Christian schools vary in the degree to which they educate these students and in the approaches that they take toward educating them. This study examines whether or not private Christian Schools are allowing students with special needs access…

It is tempting to respond to the question of what research is needed in religious education by saying, "Everything!" Although religious education as an academic discipline can be viewed as over one hundred years old, and much research has been done on a variety of issues, there is still so much that is not understood. In this paper, the author…

Background: Christian leadership is distinctively different from other major leadership conceptions such as instructional, transactional, and transformational leadership conceptions. With few studies found, the author had to consult the Bible and also non-school Christian literature instead, focusing on Hong Kong principal leadership in Protestant…

This study investigated the efforts to find public support for religious education. A history of education in the United States prior to 1800 is presented to show that the majority of the schools were denominational, whereas at the end of the nineteenth century, the majority of schools were public, and, their supporters claimed, secular. The…

Describes the Education (Scotland) Act of 1872 and its impact on education in Scotland until it was replaced by the Consolidating Act of 1946. (AN)

The article examines charges which Jeremy Bentham levelled at the National Schools Society and establishes reasons for his hostility toward the Church of England. The argument centered around Bentham's interest in the education of the poor and the Church's belief that the poor needed religion more than education. (KC)

This article addresses three periods of evangelical Christian education development in the twentieth century. The early part of the century was a time of loss of influence and marginalization within the broader religious education movement. The middle part of the century saw an explosion of parachurch educational ministry efforts to assist the…