Using observation and interviews, researchers studied a small sample of Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) schools in six towns in northwest Texas to identify aspects of the schools' operations that might be applicable to public education. Interviewees at each school included the chief administrator and some teachers, monitors, and students.…

Reports results of a series of semi-structured interviews with 12 teachers from Catholic and Protestant schools in Northern Ireland. Explores such topics as professional autonomy, teacher-pupil relations, a teacher's freedom to pursue his or her own methods, discipline, sources of professional identity and the social and political backgrounds to…

This document contains issues of "The Educational Record of the Province of Quebec" from January 1897 through December 1897. Among the topics discussed in this volume are: dark days in schools, exhibits of school work, education from a publisher's standpoint, English composition, Central Board of Examiners, life of Froebel, grammar,…

A drastic restructuring of the governance and administration of education in Quebec is likely to fuel the debate on the role of parents in controlling the school system. However, the concurrent drive toward centralization and standardization will probably allow parent committees to exercise only token power. (Author/WD)

Explores the effects of graduate seminary curriculum on the moral development of Protestant ministerial students as they are perceived by faculty. Finds that trappings of institutional setting and faculty assumptions about limited interaction between faculty and students are factors hindering students' moral development. Makes recommendations for…

This paper traces the development of the Protestant day-school movement, examining its present day status as a rapidly growing phenomenon in American education and delineating some of the issues that must be addressed if such schools are to successfully negotiate the path toward excellence. (Author/SM)

Nineteenth-century common schools offered no course about religion or its role in American society. Moral education up through the mid-20th century embodied a kind of generalized Christianity. If universalized versions of the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments prevail, educators should reconsider the merits of common-school philosophy. Contains…

Used data from 134 female and 135 male, Caucasian, Protestant college students to develop a path model of psychosocial development. For both genders, identity encompassed both personal competence and social connection, and intimate relationships served as a bridge between the private and social selves. (SLD)

Research continues to illustrate the resonance and intensity of feeling that attachment to a locality can generate, within this highlighting the gender-specific impacts created by the intersection of ethnicity and locality. Within the ethnically segregated working class communities of Belfast, the importance of locality takes on added…

As the integrated education movement in Northern Ireland passes its twenty-first anniversary, it is pertinent to explore the legacy of mixed Catholic and Protestant schooling. This paper summarises the findings of different studies regarding the impact of integrated education in Northern Ireland on social identity, intergroup attitudes and…

This paper compares the concept of mixed faith/cultural education in Northern Ireland and Israel. It is primarily concerned with the processes that these "integrated" schools adopt in their quest to improve relations between divided ethnic groups. Drawing on qualitative data collected in two mixed religion primary schools in each…

During the mid-nineteenth century, Americans created the functional equivalent of earlier state religious establishments. Supported by mandatory taxation, purportedly inclusive, and vested with messianic promise, public schooling, like the earlier established churches, was touted as a bulwark of the Republic and as an essential agent of moral and…

This phenomenological investigation highlights the experiences of evangelical Christian student leaders at two Midwestern public universities. These students perceived their public university environments not only as incongruent with, but also as antagonistic and oppressive toward, their values, beliefs, and behaviors. Besides detailing how these…

This collection of five papers, each originally published in 1982 provides an overview of Amish and Conservative Mennonite history, culture, customs, child rearing views, and educational practices. "Amish/Mennonite History: A Brief Look" traces the history of these two churches from the Reformation to their split from the main Anabaptist…

The issue of choice in U.S. education is traced historically. Consideration is given to the purposes of publicly supported education and reasons underlying the historic distinction between public and private education. It is suggested that the issue of choice concerns the rights and obligations of the individual and the state. The relationship…