Discussed the conflict of Ireland's religious orders and their stranglehold on the reins of education versus the rising discontent of parents, the decline of religious personnel and the wan of the influence of religion on the development of education in the "hermit nation ". (RK)

This study examines the application of dissonance theory to self-concept implementation in an attempt to explain the motivational process of vocational persistence among a group of Catholic seminarians. (Author)

Discusses an education bill submitted to Parliament in February, 1870 through a memorandum by W. E. Forster, who concentrated on the relation of the state to religious instruction and the enforcement of school attendance. (Author/RK)

Discusses the relevance of religious education in the public schools. (RK)

Describes a seminar in adult education held by Dr. Alan Knox, Professor of Adult Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, at the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, Long Island. The objective was to increase the participants' competence in the development of informal educational programs for adults. (Author/DR)

Describes a summer institute to give participants the working experience of being evaluators. (Author/MB)

Academic religious studies are facing a period of rapid expansion in state universities and colleges, as well as secondary and primary schools, with resultant demand for training teachers for all levels. (Author/IR)

Educational institutions that African nations inherited from the colonial powers are not linked to the realities of present-day African needs. (Author/RA)

Describes the largely unsuccessful government and religious efforts to promote literacy among Australian convicts before 1850. (MM)

The distinctive aims and methods of moral education and religious education indicate that they may be complementary. Moral reasoning is concerned with the assumptions and conditions of morality and with situational realities as well as imperatives. Religious beliefs play the same role in decision making as moral principles. (RM)

English Catholic laity wanted to establish lay schools independent of bishops. The bishops wanted one school for clerical and lay students. Compromising, they established under joint management clerical/lay schools throughout Great Britain. Never really satisfied, Catholic laity established two lay schools, both of which eventually failed. (RM)

Supports teaching literature from a religious point of view. (JL)