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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"religion and education"”.
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Contemporary Perceptions of the Solidarity Movement Held by Polish Nationals
… nationals of both genders, varying ideologies, and differing political backgrounds has led to diverse views of the history and narrative of the movement that today is interpreted in differing ways by groups and individuals. To gain a better understanding of how Poles view this unique time period …
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Tazewell County's Mining Industry and its relationship to the Religious, Educational and Political Culture
There is significant historical research on coal, education, religion, churches, and cultural values of the Tazewell County. However, there is no research weaving all of these elements together to tell a story of the county and its political development. This research project is a qualitative study …
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An Assessment of the Level of School Law Knowledge of South Carolina School Principals and the Implications for Litigation and Social Justice
… district of employment, years of experience, and professional training had on his or her knowledge of school law. This study also examined the areas principals most frequently cited as areas they would have changed their practice had they known the law. Militello, Schimmel, and Eberwein's …
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An analysis of Virginia's public school policies on religion: from historical, public policy, and evangelical Christian perspectives
Throughout the history of public education in the United States religion has been an important factor in the schooling process. From the inception of public schools until the present time the Bible's inclusion is but one indication of the interrelationship of religion and education. The major legal …
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Educational values and practices of fundamentalist Mormons
… Polygamist groups live in insular settlements and in mainstream communities, mostly in the western United States and Canada. Polygamists often have large families, and they educate their children in a variety of settings: a public charter school within a polygamous town, private religious …
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The Liberal education bills: conflict and compromise in religious issues and Liberal Party educational policies 1906-1908
This study follows the religious and educational issues which formed the background to the Education Bills of the Liberal Government in the period 1906-08. The role of the churches and their place in society in the 19th and early 20th Centuries is outlined. The problems of educational provision and …
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The industrial suburbs of Leeds in the nineteenth century : Community consciousness among the social classes
The changing relationship between community and class has been a subject generally neglected by historians. Marxist social theory provides little framework for the examination of the significance of community in capitalist society. This study of the industrial suburbs of Leeds indicates the …
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"There can be no education without religion": Tennessee evangelicals and education, 1875--1925
… has an obvious history of conflict over religion and education. By examining white Tennessee Baptists and Methodists in the half-century leading up to the showdown in Dayton, this dissertation argues that Tennessee's 1925 anti-evolution law and the resulting Scopes trial were less about …
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Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals
… 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 religion’s identity. This …
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Catholic Education in Omaha, Past, Present and Future
The history of Catholic education in Omaha seems to have claimed hut little consideration in the past. The lasting deeds of the pioneers in education accomplished at the expense of sweat and blood and often in the face of poverty and and persecution have found small place in the written records of …
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The alienated religion studies teacher: a case study in Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa's post-apartheid National Policy on Religion and Education instituted in 2003 ushered in a new paradigm for the study of religion in the country's schools. It promotes a programme of teaching and learning about religious diversity that constitute the nation. While this revised policy …
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A History of Seventh-day Adventist Higher Education in the China Mission, 1888-1980
… the Opium War, ending in 1842, western trade, religion, and education began entering China. Seventh-day Adventists entered China in 1888 but made few converts until they established schools.</p> <p>China Training Institute was founded in 1910 by Dr. Harry W. Miller, who introduced a work-study …
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Rabindranath Tagore and the Subject of Political Freedom
… modern India's foremost poet-philosopher and the first non-European recipient of the Nobel Prize, as a political thinker. Shirking simple binaries such as East and West, empire and nation, or poetry and politics, the objective is to recover the critical and creative ideas of an original …
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The interplay of structure and agency: the negotiation process of bridewealth payment in South-East Nigeria
… to which institutions determine human behaviour and its attendant power relations. While structure refers to the self-replicating, complex elements that sustain institutions, agency refers to the volitional, purpose-driven nature of human activities. In this debate, the …
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Online Marriage and "Buhay Ko" (My Life): Views from Filipino Prospective Brides, Wives, and their U.S./British/Australian Husbands
… programs have gained tremendous popularity and international reach in the recent years. Online marriage programs are venues in which women can advertise themselves as available for marriage and where men can find potential wives. These programs have both critics and proponents. Critics say …
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The dynamics of a colonial process: A comparative study of Ukraine(1648-1730) and Bulozi (1864-1911)
… for a long time. Taking the cases of Ukraine and Bulozi, this dissertation compares the colonial processes in these two different countries as they occured under different times and conditions. The colonial process in each of the two countries was set in motion by internal and external …
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The dynamics of a colonial process: A comparative study of Ukraine(1648-1730) and Bulozi (1864-1911)
… for a long time. Taking the cases of Ukraine and Bulozi, this dissertation compares the colonial processes in these two different countries as they occured under different times and conditions. The colonial process in each of the two countries was set in motion by internal and external …
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The other cross-channel neighbor: Imagining and appropriating Belgium in nineteenth-century British literature and culture
… William Thackeray, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Florence Marryat and reveals that, while these authors have sometimes been described as a-political by some critics or biographers, they all show a surprisingly acute knowledge of Belgian affairs. This study seeks to throw new light on each …
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Educating for faithful pluralism
Different educational philosophies offer different responses to the challenges of living and educating in the midst of deep pluralism. Yet many common responses to pluralism fall short of the ‘principled pluralism test,’ which states that an adequate response to pluralism must enable us both to …