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Kwon, Hyuckhoon – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study seeks to gain a holistic understanding of how older Korean-American adults' socio-demographic factors affect their attitudes toward the computer. The research was guided by four main questions: (1) What do participants describe as the consequences of their using the computer? (2) What attitudes toward the computer do participants…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Older Adults, Computer Attitudes, Social Influences
Wrobbel, Paul H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
In the United States there is considerable focus on the need for continuous improvement in the quality of schools, including student achievement and teacher performance. Performance-based pay has been repeatedly suggested as a way to improve teaching in school systems. Therefore, a more thorough understanding of the differences in the perceptions…
Descriptors: Total Quality Management, School Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Bair, Sarah D. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
Using social education as a theoretical framework, this article examines the educational theories of Nannie Helen Burroughs (1883-1961), founder of the National Training School for Women and Girls in 1909, and discusses the social studies curriculum at her school. Burroughs's papers reveal her efforts to build a curriculum that blended practical,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Studies, African American Education, African American Teachers
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Revell, Lynn – Religious Education, 2008
This article addresses teachers' understanding of spiritual development in public and religious schools in Boston and Chicago. It examines how teachers define spiritual development in different educational contexts and looks at the way they relate spirituality to a number of factors including community, identity, and character. The data from the…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Religious Education, Public Schools
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Haitch, Russell; Miller, Donald – Religious Education, 2006
This article explores how storytelling can help create a space for transformational learning. In particular it looks at the role of storytelling in education for peace in Africa. It also touches on related issues, including the role of historic peace churches, the role of women, and the role of faith convictions, in the process of moving from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Story Telling, Peace, Case Studies
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Niemela, Kati – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
Every year some 90% of 15-year-olds in Finland attend confirmation classes in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, which is greater than the percentage of that age group belonging to the Church. What is behind the popularity of Finnish confirmation classes? This article scrutinizes the quality and effectiveness of confirmation classes.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Christianity, Religion
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Foltz, Franz A.; Foltz, Frederick A. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2006
In the past two years, every magazine on the newsstands has featured nanotechnology. The articles usually speak of nanotech as the latest emerging platform technology that will substantially transform the material and social world, just as electricity and nuclear science did previously. What is usually not mentioned in these articles is reference…
Descriptors: Christianity, Ethics, Religious Education, Religious Factors
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Hayward, Mary – British Journal of Religious Education, 2006
Whilst religious education in the present may be seen to assume new roles and be perceived to be more about process than content, questions about content and the ways in which "faiths" are represented cannot ultimately be avoided. This article focuses on recent Agreed Syllabuses with particular reference to the place they give to…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Curriculum Evaluation, Traditionalism
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Woodrow, James – Christian Higher Education, 2006
Institutions and individuals function best with a sense of purpose--a reason for existence. When designed and communicated effectively, the mission statement has the power to transform people's values, motivations, and actions into a positive outcome. To investigate the role of institutional mission in Christian higher education, a review of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Christianity, Institutional Mission, Position Papers
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Yust, Karen-Marie – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2006
Christian camps claim to create spaces where children and youth are more likely to encounter God and experience spiritual living, and yet contemporary camp ministries in the United States struggle to distinguish their environments from the cultural contexts in which their campers usually reside. This article reflects on the practices of 23 diverse…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Christianity, Cultural Influences
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Petersen, Zina – College English, 2006
Recognizing that many of us teach the medieval English women mystics Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich in survey courses, this essay attempts to put these writers in context for teachers who may have only a passing familiarity with the period. Focusing on passages of their writings found in the Longman and Norton anthologies of British…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Females, Epistemology, Anthologies
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Schrum, Ethan – History of Education Quarterly, 2007
World War II stands as a defining moment for American higher education. During the crisis of international relations that existed by the late 1930s, American thinkers of various stripes felt compelled to mobilize the country's intellectual and educational resources in defense of democracy, thus creating "a great ideological revival of democracy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Democracy, Educational History, Federal Government
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Wimberly, Anne E. Streaty – Religious Education, 2007
In this article, the author looks back on her journey of teaching, framing it as a privileged fulfillment of the call as a means of inviting others' reflection on the meanings of the teaching vocation. She builds on this framework with personal stories focused on two aspects of teaching from which she has learned much: the pivotal role of…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Christianity, Teaching (Occupation), Personal Narratives
Joshi, Khyati Y. – Teaching Tolerance, 2007
In almost every public school in the United States, attitudes and behaviors in the classroom presume an unacknowledged, yet pervasive, Christian norm. How does this affect students who are not Christian? The author's research into the life experiences of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh students of Indian American backgrounds uncovers the hidden cost of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Ethnicity, Student Attitudes, Student Behavior
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McKnight, Cynthia M.; McIntire, David D.; Stude, Douglas P. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
An instrument was designed to assess the current state of faculty governance at those institutions of higher learning that are members of the Coalition of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). The purpose was to arrive at a clearer understanding of the variety and range of governance systems that are currently in place among CCCU schools. In…
Descriptors: Governance, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Evaluation Methods
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