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Sarah Henseler; Mary Grace Neville; Hind Lebdaoui – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2024
As emerging adult college students ponder their religious/spiritual beliefs and identities, those in religiously diverse countries (e.g. the USA) often encounter beliefs different from their own. These encounters can prompt new perspectives on their own beliefs and elicit responses from rejection to incorporation of the diverging belief, thus…
Descriptors: Religion, Beliefs, Self Concept, Cultural Differences
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Wecker, Menachem – Education Next, 2019
Jewish schools educated more than 151,000 students in New York State in 2013, the last year a careful count was done. And taxpayers have a stake in how well the yeshivas are doing their jobs. The Jewish schools absorb more than $100 million a year in city government funds for things such as textbooks, special education, security, and…
Descriptors: Jews, Religious Education, Clergy, Private Schools
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Sandro R. Barros; Mary Juzwik; Kasun Gajasinghe – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Reluctance to embrace change leaves societies vulnerable to the rise of authoritarian political ideologies, particularly during times of socioeconomic and political crises. Public schools have seen an increase in incidents where fundamentalist groups with differing agendas have attempted to pressure them into adopting curricula whose literacy…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Nationalism, Public Education, Religion
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Francis, Leslie J.; McKenna, Ursula; Lewis, Christopher Alan – Journal of Religious Education, 2020
John Greer first introduced the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity in 1979 into his programme of research designed to chart the religious trajectory of students attending Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland. The present study conducted in 2011 builds on earlier studies conducted in 1979, 1984, the early 1990s, and 1998.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Catholic Schools, Christianity, Attitude Measures
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Tervo-Niemelä, Kati – British Journal of Religious Education, 2021
The focus of this article is on religious transmission in families and other religious influences among young adults and their linkage to changes in faith in transition to adulthood. The special interest lies in the question of what happens to those with no religious upbringing at home: are there other factors which may turn out as meaningful and…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Child Rearing, Longitudinal Studies
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Garavito-Munoz, Edwin – British Journal of Religious Education, 2022
This paper attempts to look at the Colombian case of secularisation, touching on the current state of religion and Religious Education from three perspectives: the law, the Catholic Church, and the wider society, to determine the challenges acquired by the gap developed between religion, religiosity and secular legislation. With this in mind, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Federal Legislation, Laws
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Branford, Abigail – History Education Research Journal, 2021
Teaching sensitive histories in post-conflict societies makes particular demands on educators to understand students' identities and their relationships to the past. This paper expands our understanding of post-conflict youth identities and experiences of history education through a small-scale study of students' life stories in Northern Ireland…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History Instruction, Barriers, Student Characteristics
Arold, Benjamin W.; Woessmann, Ludger; Zierow, Larissa – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students' religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Religious Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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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
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Pratiwi Tri Utami – British Journal of Religious Education, 2024
Focusing on Indonesia's case, this research discusses how booming internet use impacts students' faith, functioning as both threat and opportunity concerning students' religious inherency and sustainable religious education (RE). This qualitative study analyses six public junior high schools and 48 interviewed participants. To reveal various…
Descriptors: Internet, Use Studies, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Nie, Fanhao – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2019
Previous research has demonstrated that individual religious beliefs and practices are associated with educational outcomes. However, less is known about the manner in which the overall religious cultural influence of a religion can affect an individual's educational aspirations. Using multilevel analyses on two waves of the National Study of…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Youth, Adolescent Development
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Mamadaliev, Anvar M.; Ludwig, Sergey D.; Miku, Natal'ya V.; Médico, Aude – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2019
This paper explores the origins of the German public education system. This part of the work provides an analysis of the formation process of the German primary education system between the 15th and 18th centuries. Also, this paper explores the use of philosophical approaches in German education, and examines the impact of Protestantism on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Educational History, Educational Philosophy
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Cheng, Albert; Sikkink, David – Youth & Society, 2020
Previous studies offer evidence that U.S. public and private high schools differentially influence volunteerism in adolescence. However, these studies are typically cross-sectional and only consider whether the individual volunteered or not. We address patterns of volunteering from adolescence into adulthood and the kind of volunteering activity…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Public Education, Private Education, Adolescents
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Pope, Elizabeth M.; Nicolaides, Aliki – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
Within current interfaith dialogue scholarship, perspective transformation towards the religious other is one of the most desired outcomes. However, exactly how such transformed perspectives come about and the characteristics of this transformation have not been adequately researched. In this study, we examine transformative learning within…
Descriptors: Religion, Intergroup Relations, Dialogs (Language), Attitude Change
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Munardji; Kholis, Nur; Mufidah, Nuril – International Journal of Instruction, 2020
This study was aimed to analyze the cultural diversity of Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Negeri (MIN) of Tegalasri, a multicultural school community in Indonesia and synthesize patterns of multicultural integration of the Tegalasri community in environmental education. Two research questions were dealt in this study; they were (1) What forms of cultural…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Environmental Education, Case Studies, Teacher Attitudes
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