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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper analyses differences in academic achievement associated with attendance at publicly funded private schools and public schools across 11 European countries. Using eight waves of PISA data (2000–2022), we apply OLS, IPW and IPWRA estimators to account for observed heterogeneity and mitigate selection bias.
Priya Maurya +2 more
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
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Anglican Christian social theory: an assessment of social welfare and the church of England in the twentieth century [PDF]
, 2003 This study assesses the contribution of the Church of England to social thought in the twentieth century. Its theoretical, multidisciplinary perspective highlights the motivation, ideology and theology, which has driven Anglican social involvement and ...
Middlemiss, Martha
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Marginalisation and Exclusion of Women from the Church Governance Structures: Experience in Black South African Churches [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2020 The marginalisation and, in extreme cases, the exclusion of women from the church governance structures, it has been observed, may be attributed to many stereotypes - perceptive, traditional, religious, to mention but a few. In the literature reviewed in
Dr Zandisile M. Dweba – PhD Candidate +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract University students globally face growing mental health challenges, with ethnic minority (EM) students—both local and international—being particularly vulnerable. Yet, limited research compares their experiences or identifies shared and distinct stressors, especially in non‐Western contexts.
Wang Xinyi, Naubahar Sharif
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Corporate governance for churches : toward a legal reform of the Church of South India Trust Association [PDF]
, 2019 The book explores the nature and function of the non-profit incorporated company the Church of South India Trust Association (CSITA) situated in Chennai, South India, and analyses the precarious situation the organisation finds itself in with
Muthuraj, Joseph Gnanaseelan
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The Church as Christ’s broken body responding to the emerging global challenges in a divided world
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2017 Public debate about the role of the church within society has gained momentum especially because the contemporary changing global political and economic landscape has resulted in deeply a divided world.
Roderick R. Hewitt
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Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.Since late 2021, serious allegations have been made against physicist Erwin Schrödinger, ranging from pedophilia to serial sexual abuse. These accusations have significantly tarnished the Nobel Prize winner's public reputation. The ongoing debate has repeatedly raised the question of whether, and to what extent, these grave allegations are justified ...
Magdalena Gronau, Martin Gronau
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Pastoral Power and Governmentality: From Therapy to Self Help [PDF]
, 2015 An examination of the practice of self-examination in Scottish Presbyterianism shows the value of following the later Foucault in the examination of religion as a social practice.
Mutch, A, Alistair Mutch
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Law in the Early Christian Church
Journal on European History of Law, 2010 The document discusses the development of legal systems within the early Christian Church, starting from its initial informal guidelines to more structured canonical laws influenced by Roman civil law.
Jiří Bílý
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