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Grogan-Kaylor, Andrew; Otis, Melanie D. – Family Relations, 2007
Corporal punishment has been the focus of considerable study over the past decade. Some recent research suggesting that the use of corporal punishment may have significant long-term negative effects on children has prompted increasing exploration and interest in the issue. We used tobit regression analysis and data from the 2000 National…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Punishment, Regression (Statistics), Longitudinal Studies
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White, John – Oxford Review of Education, 2005
Given well-known difficulties in justifying the Galtonian conception of intelligence as innate general intellectual capacity, a historical explanation is required of why this problematic notion became so prominent in Britain and in the USA in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Parallels are drawn between it and various features of the…
Descriptors: Protestants, Intelligence, Intelligence Tests, Genetics
Hopkins, Samuel W., Jr. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1976
The article proposes that there are three possible relationships between religion and counseling/psychology: (1) religion and counseling are identical, (2) religion and counseling converge or overlap, and (3) religion and counseling are different and distinct. Examples of each combination are discussed, particularly in reference to the writings in…
Descriptors: Counseling, Counseling Theories, Protestants, Psychology
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Enger, Trond – Religious Education, 1992
Discusses the importance of teaching about and laying the groundwork for religious experience in religious education. Suggests that renewed interest in religious experience is legitimate because experience is the basic dimension in religion and is lacking in many people's lives today. Describes various approaches from the past. (DK)
Descriptors: Christianity, Experience, Protestants, Religious Education
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Granleese, Jacqueline; Joseph, Stephen – Personality and Individual Differences, 1994
A previous study confirmed the factor structure (scholastic competence, social acceptance, athletic competence, physical appearance, behavior, and global self-worth) of the Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC) for a sample of Protestant adolescents living in Northern Ireland. The present study replicated the SPPC factor structure for a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Catholics, Factor Structure, Foreign Countries
Ben-Nun, Merav – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A comparative case study of integrated schools in two regions of conflict, this study addresses the potential and limitations of education to promote individual and societal processes of change and peace building. In modern societies, education is expected to play a central function in socializing young generations into their culture and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Case Studies, Social Change
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
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Alexander, Kern – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2007
United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas writing for a plurality of the Court in "Mitchell v. Helms" in 2000 advanced the idea that state constitutional prohibitions against public funding of religious schools were manifestations of anti-Catholic bigotry in the late 19th century. Thomas' reading of history and law led him to…
Descriptors: Public Support, Financial Support, Parochial Schools, Educational Finance
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Peek, Charles W.; Brown, Sharon – Social Forces, 1980
Utilizing data from two national surveys, examines attitudes of White Protestants toward women's participation in politics. Compares the relationship between affiliation and religiosity and sex prejudice to that between religiosity and ethnic prejudice. Finds that unaffiliated Whites exhibit less sex and ethnic prejudice than do Whites affiliated…
Descriptors: Ethnic Bias, Protestants, Religious Factors, Sex Bias
Boaventura, Elias – Comunicacoes, 2000
States that the topic of confessionalism has generated a prolonged debate between Brazilian Methodists through the general council of Methodist teaching institutions. Suggests that Methodist academic institutions have no obligation to evangelize but should work in the struggle toward education which is characterized by the search for meaning in…
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Protestants
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Osborne, R.D. – Higher Education Quarterly, 2005
The higher education sector in Northern Ireland has been fully involved in the public policies designed to enhance equality. Starting with measures designed to secure greater employment between Catholics and Protestants, known as fair employment, the policies are now designed to promote equality of opportunity across nine designated groups…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Protestants, Employment
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Leonard, Madeleine – Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research, 2006
In segregated societies such as Northern Ireland, schools may become sites of risk rather than sites of learning. This is particularly likely to be the case in interface areas, which are demarcated by peace-lines and other symbolic boundaries. Drawing on maps and focus group discussions with teenagers from interface areas in North Belfast, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Risk, Focus Groups
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Jasinski, James – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2007
In August 1843 Presbyterian minister Henry Highland Garnet delivered his "Address to the Slaves of the United States of America" to the National Convention of Colored Citizens in Buffalo, NY. While often read (and almost as often dismissed) as either an unqualified call for a violent slave rebellion or, at the least, a celebration of…
Descriptors: Resistance (Psychology), Violence, Masculinity, Language Patterns
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Francis, Leslie J.; Robbins, Mandy; Lewis, Christopher Alan; Barnes, L. Philip; Sion, Tania ap – Educational Research, 2007
Background: Northern Ireland is a province that remains deeply divided between Protestants and Catholics and maintains a segregated system of schools. Purpose: The research builds on a series of studies conducted in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s to monitor the attitude toward Christianity of males and females educated in Protestant and Catholic…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Protestants, Catholics, Females
Kalish, Richard A.; Goldberg, Helene – Death Education, 1978
On the whole, the experiences of clergy with funerals and funeral directors were positive, although a significant minority provided negative judgements. The general consensus of the clergy was that people did need more protection from inappropriate funeral practices than they were presently getting. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Catholics, Clergy, Death
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