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Ideology and Morality in Host Language Learning: American Protestants in the Former Yugoslavia
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Sawin, Thor – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2019
American Protestants serving overseas must learn their host communities' "heart" language from the twin moral imperative to minimize their burden on host partners and to embody their faith through their language practice. Language learning thus has moral consequences; not merely proficiency attainment, but faithfulness and calling are at…
Descriptors: Protestants, Language Usage, Cultural Influences, Religion
Teacher Discourse Constructing Different Social Positions of Pupils in Finnish Separative and Integrative Religious Education
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Kimanen, Anuleena; Poulter, Saila – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2018
This article examines social practices within classroom discourse in two different Finnish religious educational contexts. The article critically observes the construction of certain positions and identities as part of the school discourse and the inclusive vs exclusive practices of language. The research material consists of classroom…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Religious Education, Language Usage, Foreign Countries
Textbook Religion and Lived Religion: A Comparison of the Christian Faith as Expressed in Textbooks and by Young Church Members
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Vestøl, Jon Magne – Religious Education, 2016
Drawing on perspectives from sociocultural theory, this article investigates how Christian denominations are represented in Norwegian textbooks of religious education and by young believers. The main finding is that textbooks and young adherents present religion in substantially different ways. While textbooks relate religion to global and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Textbooks, Religious Education, Foreign Countries
Prioritizing Children's Spirituality in the Context of Church of England Schools: Understanding the Tensions
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Lumb, Anne – Journal of Education & Christian Belief, 2014
In the UK, inspectors are asked to judge how far schools support children's spiritual development. Church schools are subject to the differing expectations of a dual inspection system which introduces a tension between the Ofsted (Office for Standards in Education) prioritization of control and performativity and the SIAMS (Statutory Inspection of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Spiritual Development, Religious Education, Protestants
Higher Education in the Philippines. Bulletin, 1961, No. 29. OE-14065. [Foreword - Chapter V]
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Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, War
Higher Education in the Philippines. Bulletin, 1961, No. 29. OE-14065. [Chapter VI - Appendices]
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Carson, Arthur L. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
Because of close relations between the Philippines and the United States in the earlier years of this century, developments in the Philippines since that country achieved its independence in 1946 are of particular interest to Americans. An important aspect of the island nation's efforts in its first 15 years of complete self-government is the…
Descriptors: Educational History, War, Politics of Education, Economic Factors