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Zembylas, Michalinos – British Journal of Educational Studies, 2022
This paper brings attention to the notion of 'religious affects', namely, the affects, emotions and feelings related to religion and religious experience. It is argued that educators and students have a lot to gain from paying attention to and exploring the meaning and role of religious feelings in the context of controversies and debates…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Religious Factors, Islam, Social Attitudes
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Johanna F. Ziemes – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Background: Tolerance is a prerequisite for deliberative democracies. Therefore, fostering tolerance is an important task for educational systems in democracies. In the present study, the concepts of social and political tolerance were disentangled and applied to the measurement approaches of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior, Social Attitudes
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Johanna F. Ziemes – Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2024
Tolerance is a prerequisite for deliberative democracies. Therefore, fostering tolerance is an important task for educational systems in democracies. In the present study, the concepts of social and political tolerance were disentangled and applied to the measurement approaches of the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study 2016 (ICCS…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior, Social Attitudes
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Legg, Brian C. – Christian Higher Education, 2020
Education in the nineteenth century witnessed a revival of classical Scholasticism brought to use by many educational institutions within Europe and North America. These institutions felt a burgeoning tension among contemporary church teaching, enlightenment thinking, and the new philosophical thoughts emerging from Europe. Although…
Descriptors: Christianity, Churches, Religious Education, Criticism
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Tourbier, Michelle – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2020
Designing education policy, curriculum and competences which promote and nourish the values and/or morals believed to underpin democratic culture is both contentious and something which has occupied philosophers, policy-makers and educators from Ancient Greece to present. This task has become even more challenging as people and ideas have become…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democratic Values, Moral Values, Policy Formation
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Jónsson, Ólafur Páll; Garces Rodriguez, Antonio – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
The focus within the European tradition of democratic education has increasingly been on personal traits or character traits, values, and skills, rather than on broad structural features or systemic issues. This is reflected in a recent publication by the Council of Europe titled "Competences for Democratic Culture: Living Together as Equals…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Citizenship Education, Democratic Values, Cultural Pluralism
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Simpson, Ashley; Dervin, Fred – Intercultural Communication Education, 2019
The popularity of the idea of the intercultural in different parts of the world means that there are many differing meanings and ways in which the notion is understood, represented, expressed and used. In contrast to this polysemy, democracy often appears on the surface to be understood through universalist and/or absolutist conceptualisations.…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Democracy, Cultural Pluralism, Guidelines
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Borca, Claudia; Rus, Calin; Sava, Simona – Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Building up the personal identity is a lifelong process, as identity can change, according with the groups of belonging, with new knowledge and changes of beliefs and contexts. There are more stable components of identity, like the values and attitudes, but there are contexts and experiences that sharpen different aspects of the identity. The…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Elementary School Students, Attitude Change, Social Attitudes
Wong, Shelley, Ed.; Gosnell, Elaisa Sánchez, Ed.; Luu, Anne Marie Foerster, Ed.; Dodson, Lori, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2017
Learn how to engage and advocate for undocumented children and youth with this new resource written by and for teachers. "Teachers as Allies" provides educators with the information and tools they need to involve immigrant students and their American-born siblings and peers in inclusive and transformative classroom experiences. The…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, Advocacy, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship