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Download full textOmar, Mona Taha Muhammad – English Language Teaching, 2020
The study explored religious education (RE), Islamic and Christian, in the Arab world and its role in qualifying students to university education, taking Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Egypt as models. A controversy about the validity of RE as a bridge to university education in the Arab world provided the impetus to carry out the present study. Using…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Islam, Christianity, Validity
Ginex, Nicholas P. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2013
There is a need for high school, college, and university educators to introduce their students to a history of mankind's development of religions and beliefs in God. Regarded as too sensitive a subject, students are deprived of learning how mankind has evolved ways to establish moral and righteous behavior to maintain harmony among competing…
Descriptors: Religious Education, History Instruction, Religious Factors, Foreign Countries
Direct linkPandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
Gesink, Indira Falk – Comparative Education Review, 2006
According to contemporary media opinion, the problem with Islam, and by implication, with Islamic education, is that it never underwent a reformation that freed individual religious inquiry from the control of a religious hierarchy. Thus, it has been assumed that Islam and Islamic education remain bound to rigid seventh-century codes of belief.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Opinions, Educational Change, Islam
Peer reviewedCook, Bradley J. – Comparative Education Review, 2001
Among 381 university students surveyed in Cairo, Egypt, most considered the national educational system to be too "Westernized," approved of a religious education requirement at the university level (where none now exists), indicated a lack of academic freedom, and desired a more Islamic orientation for their education. However, opinions…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, College Students, Culture Conflict, Educational Attitudes
Peer reviewedCook, Bradley James – Comparative Education, 2000
Examines the vigorous dialectic occurring among intellectuals, religious leaders, and politicians trying to define the appropriate role of Islam in Egyptian education. Discusses the call for the Islamization of education in contemporary Egypt, aspects of Islamic law, the position of the state on religious education, and the influence of a small…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
