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Ter Avest, K. H.; Rietveld-van Wingerden, M. – British Journal of Religious Education, 2017
During the second half of the twentieth century, faithful followers of non-Western religions immigrated into Western European countries. Their children were a challenge for the respective educational system in the host countries. In the Dutch context, the educational system consists of public and private schools in which religion is the most…
Descriptors: Islam, Religious Education, Immigrants, Foreign Countries
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Kamwendo, Gregory H. – Africa Education Review, 2019
This article discusses the resource implications of Malawi's new language-in-education policy. Whilst previous publications on the English as a medium of teaching and learning policy, which was announced in Malawi in 2014, have sharply criticised and dismissed the new language policy from pedagogical and other educational grounds, the current…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
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Beyer, Carl – American Educational History Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to review four educational issues introduced by this author in previous articles (Beyer 2004, 2015) that faced the Kingdom of Hawai'i in order to investigate the educational policies taken to address these issues by the White Architects of Hawaiian education. The American Protestant missionaries, who arrived in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Whites, Clergy
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Mohanty, Madhu S. – Education Economics, 2016
Using data from the USA, the study demonstrates that an individual's completed years of schooling later in life is positively related to his/her frequency of religious attendance during youth. Using the propensity score matching technique, the study shows that this relationship is causal. This conclusion remains valid for youths of different…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Attendance, Educational Attainment, Correlation
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Loader, Rebecca; Hughes, Joanne; Petroska-Beshka, Violeta; Tomovska Misoska, Ana – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2018
Transferring education policy from one country to another, or between supranational bodies and national administrations, is common practice, and the potential benefits for educational quality and standards are evident. Despite these advantages, the dominant approaches to policy transfer have been criticized for, among other things, neglecting…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Cross Cultural Studies, Ethnic Groups, Religious Factors
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Parlevliet, Sanne – History of Education, 2014
Historical fiction is a powerful way of transmitting national history to later generations. It emerged in the nineteenth century as a means of building identity and fostering solidarity. This article investigates Dutch historical novels for children. First, it explores the relation between educational ideas and historical novels for children,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Novels, History, History Instruction
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Orlowski, Paul – in education, 2017
This article describes a study that took place in Saskatchewan, Canada, during 2013-2014. Ten practicing high school social studies teachers who self-identified as Christian answered an unsolicited invitation to participate in a qualitative study about the ways in which they think about social justice. Almost evenly split between Catholic and…
Descriptors: Christianity, Social Studies, Social Justice, High School Teachers
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Elias, Rafik Z. – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2015
Cheating is a common problem among college students. Research shows that business students cheat more often than other students and that this cheating was correlated with future unethical workplace behavior. The current study examines some psychological determinants of business students' cheating perception. A survey was administered to 474…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Business Administration Education, College Faculty, Cheating
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Rougier, Nathalie; Honohan, Iseult – Comparative Education, 2015
This paper examines the evolution of the state-supported denominational education system in Ireland in the context of increasing social diversity, and considers the capacity for incremental change in a system of institutional pluralism hitherto dominated by a single religion. In particular, we examine challenges to the historical arrangements…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Change, Protestants, Financial Support
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Mulder, André; van den Berg, Bas – Religious Education, 2019
In the project "Learning for Life" we developed a hermeneutical--communicative model for worldview education that answers the European challenges of worldview diversity and worldview illiteracy. We implemented the model in a participatory action research project at nine schools for primary education in the Netherlands and monitored the…
Descriptors: Whites, World Views, Hermeneutics, Action Research
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Duffy, Gavin; Gallagher, Tony – Review of Education, 2014
This study explores the current understanding of cross-sectoral collaboration between schools in a divided society. The paper provides the context surrounding inter-school collaboration in Northern Ireland then presents findings based on a qualitative study of five post-primary partnerships made up of schools from the various sectors in Northern…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Partnerships in Education, Institutional Cooperation, Qualitative Research
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McCully, Alan; Clarke, Linda – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2016
This paper examines the distinctive locus of teacher education in Northern Ireland (NI) in respect of Fundamental British Values (FBV). It is written from the perspective of teacher education tutors in a PGCE programme that explicitly subscribes to pursuing the Shared Future agenda as outlined by NI Government policy in 2005. First, it establishes…
Descriptors: Values, Teacher Education, Political Attitudes, Self Concept
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Wickersham, Mary Eleanor – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2013
The passage of a stringent immigration law in Alabama in 2011 makes relevant the juxtaposition of clergy and congregant attitudes and behaviors toward illegal immigrants as related to Biblical teachings that require charity to aliens. In order to examine the relationship between religious attitudes and illegal immigration, approximately 426…
Descriptors: Clergy, Attitudes, Undocumented Immigrants, Religious Conflict
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Anderson, Tom; Conlon, Bernard – Art Education, 2013
Northern Ireland's well-known civil strife between Catholics and Protestants had enjoyed an uneasy peace, but a recent outbreak of new violence in 2010 caused disappointment to these authors. Bernard Conlon and Tom Anderson collaborated on creating a new children's peace mural with the Kids' Guernica Peace Mural Project in West Belfast. This Kids'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Art Education, Protestants, Catholics
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Panczak, Radoslaw; Spoerri, Adrian; Zwahlen, Marcel; Bopp, Matthias; Gutzwiller, Felix; Egger, Matthias – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2013
In Switzerland, the highest rates of suicide are observed in persons without religious affiliation and the lowest in Catholics, with Protestants in an intermediate position. We examined whether this association was modified by concomitant psychiatric diagnoses or malignancies, based on 6,909 suicides (ICD-10 codes X60-X84) recorded in 3.69 million…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Suicide, Religious Factors, Catholics
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