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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Religious schools"”.
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State Regulation of Nonpublic Schools
… the development of state regulation of nonpublic schools, to examine the constitutional protection available to nonpublic religious schools, to examine state regulation of nonpublic education in selected states, and to develop specific recommendations for the improvement of state regulation of …
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Islamic feminist reflection of pedagogy and gender praxis in South African madaris.
… South African Deoband mad'ris (elementary religious schools).
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Religion, solidarity and identity: a comparative study of four South African schools with a religious affiliation
This thesis explores how schools with a religious affiliation recruit religion in school culture and the formal curriculum (both curriculum content and pedagogic method) and how this relates to the pedagogic identities they project. An overarching concern of the thesis is to understand how the …
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Persistence in Residential Choice and Neighborhood Attachment
… out-migration responses to this shock among two religious groups. To understand differences in neighborhood attachment, I estimate a dynamic panel data discrete choice model that disentangles state dependence in neighborhood choice from unobserved heterogeneity in preferences for neighborhood …
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Using teacher narratives for reflection, representation and reforms in teacher training programmes
… that exist in educational settings such as religious schools in Montreal and in schools in Northern Quebec and Asia. This thesis illustrates how the 'meta-narratives' of the history of education have silenced teachers' voices, and discusses how the authority of the teacher has been …
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Fractionalization and tax effort to fund Illinois public schools: an equity analysis
… send their children to nonpublic, and primarily religious schools, affects school district effort to fund public education with local property tax revenue. Descriptive and inferential quantitative statistics are used to determine if a statistically significant correlation exists between Illinois …
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Religious pluralism and conflict as issues in religious education in Uganda
… complications raised in teaching a confessional Religious Education in a multi-religious context pertaining in Ugandan religiously founded public schools, government and private founded schools. The thesis contends that the introduction of Islam, Anglican and Roman Catholic Christian religious …
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Religious Influences in Thai Female Education (1889-1931)
… their social, political, economic, and religious impact. Examination of historical document analysis and empirical data are employed to comparatively analyze the effect of two religions' values on female education access. Chapters Four, Five, and Six of the dissertation explore the …
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Educational values and practices of fundamentalist Mormons
… charter school within a polygamous town, private religious schools in suburban and rural areas, “priesthood schools” based on home school models, and in public schools in which polygamists’ children are invisible minorities. They trace their origin to Mormons who refused to abandon polygamy after …
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Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals
This thesis offers a queer reading of religious schooling that resists setting religion and queerness inevitably in opposition to one another. Jewish, Christian, and Muslim perspectives often rely on an identitarian account of religious schooling: the religious school exists to sustain a particular …
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Montessori and Religious Education in Western Cape Preschools
The debate about whether or not religious education should be included in early childhood education is a longstanding one. Even those who believe that Religious Education should be included in early childhood programs cannot agree about the content or method for including it. The phenomenon of …
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Bhāviveka’s Jewel in the Hand Treatise: Elucidating a Path to Awakening Utilizing Formal Inference
… for debate and were accepted by different religious schools. According to Dignāga, a formal proof statement is established on the basis of two kinds of cognitions (pramāṇa): direct perception (pratyakṣa) and inference (anumāna). Based on Dignāga’s perspective, Bhāviveka incorporated formal …
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Power in Religious Organizations: a Study of Principals' Perspectives as Seen in Three Religious High Schools in Michigan
… study focused on how power displays itself in religious organizations, and described particular activities that occur in the context of three religious schools in Michigan.</p> <p>Method. To accomplish the purpose of the study the literature on power was reviewed to identify the existing …
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Why Do Parents Choose to Send Their Children To Private Schools?
Private schools were the original educational entities in the United States and have continued playing a prominent role in educating America's youth. The number of private schools has increased over the last decade while the number of private school students has remained stable at approximately …