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Denig, Stephen J.; Dosen, Anthony J. – Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 2009
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was an ecumenical council of Catholic bishops from around the world. The bishops made changes both in the internal life of the Church (e.g., the sacraments and daily practices of Catholics) and in the approach that the Church took toward other religions and toward the secular world. These changes transformed…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational History, Institutional Mission, Governance
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Benton, Jeremy P.; Christopher, Andrew N.; Walter, Mark I. – Death Studies, 2007
To assess how different facets of aging anxiety contributed to the prediction of tangible and existential death anxiety, 167 Americans of various Christian denominations completed a battery of questionnaires. Multiple regression analyses, controlling for demographic variables and previously demonstrated predictors of death anxiety, revealed that…
Descriptors: Fear, Death, Anxiety, Aging (Individuals)
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Richardson, Norman – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2008
The separate and parallel systems of schooling in Northern Ireland that largely reflect Protestant/Catholic divisions have been much criticised on the grounds that they have failed to promote social cohesion. These divisions are also evident in teacher education provision and attempts to offset the negative effects of this separation have made…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators
Connolly, Paul – Bernard van Leer Foundation (NJ1), 2009
This working paper focuses on some of the issues and challenges faced in developing early childhood programmes to promote racial and ethnic diversity in societies characterised by deep divisions and/or conflict. The central argument of the paper is that the development, delivery and evaluation of such programmes need to be informed by three core…
Descriptors: Program Development, Early Childhood Education, Conflict, Childrens Rights
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Burkholder, Zoe – Harvard Educational Review, 2010
In this article, Zoe Burkholder explores the historical interplay of the emergence of tolerance education in the United States and the rise of black educational activism in Boston. By uncovering a pointed lack of tolerance education in Boston and a widespread promotion of tolerance education in other cities in the early half of the twentieth…
Descriptors: African American Students, Multicultural Education, Civil Rights, School Desegregation
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Hella, Elina – British Journal of Religious Education, 2008
This article contains the results of how a selected group of Finnish upper secondary students understand Lutheranism. The data consisted of 63 students' responses to a writing task together with complementary interviews of 11 students. The outcomes of phenomenographic analysis of variation in the students' understanding of Lutheranism are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Qualitative Research, Individual Differences
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White, John – Journal of Philosophy of Education, 2009
Richard Peters argued for a general education based largely on the study of truth-seeking subjects for its own sake. His arguments have long been acknowledged as problematic. There are also difficulties with Paul Hirst's arguments for a liberal education, which in part overlap with Peters'. Where justification fails, can historical explanation…
Descriptors: General Education, Psychology, Secondary School Curriculum, Liberal Arts
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Niemonen, Jack – American Sociologist, 2007
"Antiracist Education in Theory and Practice: A Critical Assessment" As a set of pedagogical, curricular, and organizational strategies, antiracist education claims to be the most progressive way today to understand race relations. Constructed from whiteness studies and the critique of colorblindness, its foundational core is located in…
Descriptors: Racial Bias, Race, Racial Relations, Educational Change
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Carrell, Lori – Communication Education, 2009
This study explored the effectiveness of communication training for clergy, working to create an outcomes assessment model for such endeavors. Clergy-participants (N=46) completed an extensive training process designed to increase the transformative quality of their sermon communication. Training outcomes were assessed with a prepost test design,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Clergy, Public Speaking, Outcomes of Education
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Rosenfeld, Michael J. – Social Forces, 2008
This article compares marriage patterns by race, education and religion in the United States during the 20th century, using a variety of data sources. The comparative approach allows several general conclusions. First, racial endogamy has declined sharply over the 20th century, but race is still the most powerful division in the marriage market.…
Descriptors: African Americans, Race, Protestants, Jews
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Cesar, Dana; Smith, Joan K. – American Educational History Journal, 2008
Women pioneers and frontier teachers have been the subject of numerous books and articles. Generally, the portrait has been one of self-sacrifice, dedication to God, family and home, with little or no concern for personal needs or goals. Continuing with a premise that teachers in Indian Territory used religious sanctions and faced greater peril in…
Descriptors: Sanctions, Females, Educational History, Profiles
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Evans, Christopher H. – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2007
Discussions on teaching and learning within theological seminaries often center on the question of student diversity, focused primarily upon issues of race, gender, and ethnicity. At the same time that seminaries are challenged to deal with a multitude of pedagogical suppositions emerging from increasingly diverse learning goals, seminaries must…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Theological Education, Student Diversity, Student Subcultures
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Esqueda, Octavio J. – Christian Higher Education, 2007
This article provides an overview of the main Protestant theological seminaries in Cuba: Western Cuba Baptist Seminary, Cedars of Lebanon Seminary, The New Pines Evangelical Seminary, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center, Nazarene Theological Seminary and International School of Theology. The history and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Protestants, Church Related Colleges
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Latta, Brett C. – Christian Higher Education, 2008
This article documents the historical development of United Methodist Church-affiliated Ohio Wesleyan University during the nineteenth century. It relies significantly upon a synthesis of its 50- and 100-year histories and supporting Methodist educational literature. While the struggles and mortality rates of church colleges founded during the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Church Related Colleges, Protestants, Institutional Survival
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Gaither, Milton – Theory and Research in Education, 2009
This article first examines why the homeschooling movement in the USA emerged in the 1970s, noting the impact of political radicalism both right and left, feminism, suburbanization, and public school bureaucratization and secularization. It then describes how the movement, constituted of left- and right-wing elements, collaborated in the early…
Descriptors: Protestants, Home Schooling, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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