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Öztürk, Ayhan; Kamer, S. Tunay – Online Submission, 2013
This study focuses on the activities of American missionaries in Kayseri, who found a large area of activity during the regression period of the Ottoman Empire. They mostly carried out educational and health activities in Kayseri Station, founded in 1854 as a part of the Western Anatolia Mission. In this study, the schools opened in Kayseri are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Information Dissemination, Global Approach
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Trohler, Daniel – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2009
In this paper, the author focuses on how globalization and education are addressed in research. More precisely, he concentrates on only one dominant approach to analyzing globalization and its effects on education and also the educational role within globalization. His thesis is that, with the background of Max Weber's Protestant ethic thesis,…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Work Ethic, Protestants, History
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de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2010
This article discusses Quechua speakers' religious literacy practices in the native language in a rural community located in the department of Cuzco (Peru). I argue that in a situation where the school did not play the role of developing or maintaining the written vernacular, a group of community members found specific situations where they felt…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, Global Approach, Foreign Countries, Literacy