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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
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Nurdogan, Arzu M. – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to uncover real importance and volume of schooling interlaced with political practices through placing the education in a pragmatic position in forming national epistemologies and political ambitions by non-Muslims who desire to establish a geography by virtue of having specific national histories, cultures,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Influences, Epistemology, History
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Al Ramiah, Ananthi; Hewstone, Miles; Voci, Alberto; Cairns, Ed; Hughes, Joanne – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2013
Background: In this paper, we focused on mixing in educational settings between members of Catholic and Protestant ethnoreligious groups in Northern Ireland. Aims:. In Study 1, we examined whether opportunities for contact at home and at university were associated with greater actual out-group friendships, and whether this friendship was…
Descriptors: Friendship, Foreign Countries, Catholics, Protestants
Clark, Steve Richard – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study explored paternal intentional involvement in the relational spiritual formation of their children. The main research question was to what degree are Protestant Evangelical fathers intentionally involved in the relational spiritual formation of their children? The research was based on two domains: relational spiritual…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Parent Child Relationship, Spiritual Development
Nho, Sung Hyun – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This quantitative study examined the relationship between ministry satisfaction and spiritual maturity among adult church volunteers in the Korean Presbyterian church in South Korea (Kosin). It also sought to investigate factors related to volunteers' job satisfaction and their spiritual maturity. Participants included 531 adult small group…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Satisfaction, Spiritual Development, Adults
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Van Pelt, Deani A. Neven; Sikkink, David; Pennings, Ray; Seel, John – Journal of School Choice, 2012
This article introduces the research initiated by Cardus on private religious Protestant and Catholic schools in North America and provides an overview of the succeeding articles presented in this special section of the "Journal of School Choice". Through mixed method study by multiple research teams the inquiry was designed to seek to…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics
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Nehring, James H.; Szczesiul, Stacy – Journal of Educational Change, 2015
This study examined four secondary schools in Northern Ireland serving a significant percentage of low income families: two schools from the "Maintained" (de-facto Catholic) sector, one school from the "Controlled" (de-facto Protestant) sector, and one school from the "Integrated" (mixed faith) sector. The objective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Secondary Schools, Thinking Skills
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McGlynn, Claire; London, Tim – Research Papers in Education, 2013
Inclusion is increasingly understood as an educational reform that responds to the diversity of all learners, challenging the marginalisation, exclusion and underachievement which may result from all forms of "difference". Leadership for inclusion is conceptualised here as driving a constant struggle to create shared meanings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Educational Change, Instructional Leadership
Castles, Jason Ford – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Previous studies assessed the intercultural competence of groups of individuals including primary and secondary school teachers, students that have studied abroad, and students enrolled in a specific course at an institution. However, few, if any, studies have investigated the intercultural competence of a cohort of freshmen at the university…
Descriptors: Protestants, Ethnicity, Geographic Regions, College Freshmen
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Park, Julie J. – Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 2012
This study analyzes data from the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen (NLSF) to examine whether religious affiliation and involvement are related to the outcome of interracial friendship in the fourth year of college. When controlling for students' demographic characteristics, institutional characteristics, and previous levels of interracial…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Longitudinal Studies, Role of Religion, Role
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Van Brummelen, Harro; Koole, Robert – Journal of School Choice, 2012
This article assesses to what extent and how 18 Protestant and Catholic religiously based high schools in Alberta, British Columbia, and Washington state prepare students for cultural awareness and engagement. All schools claimed to educate students to make constructive and significant differences in culture and society. While this was evident in…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Lincoln, Timothy D. – Christian Higher Education, 2012
Theological schools seek to educate both women and men to serve the church and promote the study of religion. This education involves constant messaging through multiple channels. This article explores the central messages received by theological students at one free-standing Presbyterian seminary in the United States. Women commonly reported two…
Descriptors: Professional Training, Gender Differences, Philosophy, Theological Education
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Hargie, Owen; O'Donnell, Aodheen; McMullan, Christel – Youth & Society, 2011
The concept of social exclusion has attracted considerable interest and debate over the past 20 years. It is a multifaceted concept, which has been delineated in a variety of ways by different theorists. This article explores the main defining features of social exclusion, and proceeds to investigate the extent to which these are manifested in…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Social Isolation
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Ellison, Christopher G.; Burdette, Amy M.; Glenn, Norval D. – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
This study explores the relationship between multiple aspects of religious involvement--affiliation, church attendance, subjective religiosity--and marital expectations among college women. In addition, the authors investigate whether religious involvement mediates the link between family background and marital expectations. These issues are…
Descriptors: Females, Family Characteristics, Marriage, Religious Factors
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Ellison, Christopher G.; Musick, Marc A.; Holden, George W. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
Using longitudinal data from a sample of 456 focal children in the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study examined two research questions: (a) Does corporal punishment of young children (ages 2-4 at baseline) predict increases in levels of externalizing and internalizing problems over a 5-year study period? (b) Does the…
Descriptors: Protestants, Punishment, Correlation, Longitudinal Studies
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