This article explores three questions: What is the perception of teachers concerning religious literacy? Is religious literacy an appropriate framework to combat religious intolerance? Do school teachers, principals, and policy makers support interreligious initiatives, including teaching the religions of the world and interreligious site visits?…

This paper examines the religiosity, sexuality, and attitudes towards same-sex relationships among young people who were students at religiously affiliated schools in Australia and the staff who work in these schools, drawing on a national representative survey. It demonstrates that students are increasingly nonreligious, and accepting of…

The study explored the social perceptions of young children's use of smart devices in South Korea using big data methodologies. Big data methodologies allowed to uncover underlying thoughts and feelings about young children's use of smart devices that had not been discovered in existing studies. The study extracted raw data from three different…

In Australia, the school population in metropolitan areas is increasingly multicultural. School staff must be prepared to teach students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds and to interact constructively with their families for desired student outcomes. Interactions with CALD families can be a daunting task for school…

This study provides a basic overview of in-service preschool teachers using drawing as intervention with children. Art therapy is used more often for the smaller children who have more difficulty to describe their emotions and feelings in recognizing words, such as anger, resentment, and different kind of abuses. As a matter of fact, the drawing…

Reviewed is research dealing with the attitudes of the public, peers and professionals toward the mentally retarded. The contradictory nature of many studies is cited, and the influence of such factors as misconceptions and contact with retardates on public attitudes is described. Studies of peer attitudes toward the retarded are considered in…

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CLASSES OF COGNITIVE PHENOMENA WAS INVESTIGATED, I.E., THE MOTIVATIONAL STRUCTURE AND THE DEGREE OF PERCEIVED ROLE DISPARITY OF TEACHERS. ONE ELEMENT OF MOTIVATION, CALLED "ORIENTATION FOR CHANGE," WAS RELATED TO DIFFERENT TYPES OF ROLE DISPARITY, INCLUDING "OPTIMISM" OR THE EXTENT IN WHICH THE…

Used in a cross-cultural study was the Attitude Behavior Scale-Mental Retardation (ABS-MR), designed to examine aspects of attitude-behaviors that are invariant, culturally determined, object determined, or situation determined, and multivariate relationships between these components. Data on structure, content, and determinants of attitudes of…

Purposes of this study included constructing a self-administered measure of bias in sex role stereotypes and developing a self-intervention, self-confrontation manual to reduce the impact of these stereotypes on career choices. One hundred six items, representative of thirty-two stereotypes, were administered to 154-item tryout participants. A…