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Young children's right to be heard on the quality of their education: Addressing potential misunderstandings in the context of early childhood education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In early childhood education many researchers and professionals across the world have embraced the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child's requirement to include young children in decision‐making. In the context of ongoing discussion about young children's capacity to share their views and opinions about matters affecting them ...
Laura Lundy, Colette Murray, Kylie Smith, Carmel Ward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

'A habitual disposition to the good': on reason, virtue and realism [PDF]

, 2015
Amidst the crisis of instrumental reason, a number of contemporary political philosophers including Jürgen Habermas have sought to rescue the project of a reasonable humanism from the twin threats of religious fundamentalism and secular naturalism.
Agamben G., Agamben G., Aristotle, Bauman Z., Bellah R., Benedict, Berlin I., Bruni L., Debord G., Edelman M., Foucault M., Geuss R., Goetz S., Gray J., Gray J., Gray J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Habermas J., Hirst P. Q., Jaspers K., Juergensmeyer M., Juergensmeyer M., Macintyre A., Manent P., Michéa J.-C., Milbank J., Moreland J. P., Muralt A. D., Nancy J.-L., Nicholls D., Northcott M., Pabst A., Planinc Z., Plato, Polanyi K., Popper K. R., Rawls J., Rawls J., Rawls J., Rawls J., Rawls J., Sandel M. J., Sandel M. J., Scott J. C., Taylor C., Taylor C., Taylor C., Taylor C., Thompson E. P., Williams B., Williams B., Wolin S. S.   +56 more
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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in Beliefs and Perceptions about the Natural Environment in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana: The Influence of Religion [PDF]

The potential of traditional natural resources management for biodiversity conservation and the improvement of sustainable rural livelihoods is no longer in doubt. In sub-Saharan Africa, extensive habitat destruction, degradation, and severe depletion of
Paul Sarfo-Mensah, William Oduro
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
wiley   +1 more source

“Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School”: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement across Countries [PDF]

Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this
Ludger Woessmann, Martin R. West
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Is the well‐known phrase ‘small is beautiful’ true of small transnational education institutions?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this research is to consider the potential attractiveness of operating a small international branch campus (IBC). Drawing upon resource‐based and legitimacy theories, we examine the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats associated with the business model that is based on having a small institution size.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Descriptive currents in philosophy of religion for Hebrew Bible studies

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011
This article argued that the utilisation of philosophy of religion in the study of the Hebrew Bible is possible if we look beyond the stereotype of erroneously equating the auxiliary field with natural theology, apologetics or atheological criticism ...
Jacobus W. Gericke
doaj   +1 more source

Collaboration between Science and Religious Education teachers in Scottish Secondary schools [PDF]

, 2014
The article reports on quantitative research that examines: (1) the current practice in collaboration; and (2) potential for collaboration between Science and Religious Education teachers in a large sample of Scottish secondary schools. The authors adopt
Bell L., Bryman A., Cohen L., Das S., Dawkins R., Dawkins R., Dawkins R., Dennett D., Dennett D., Grayling A. C., Grayling A. C., Grayling A. C., Harris S., Harris S., Hartshorn B., Hitchens C., Hitchens C., Hitchens C., Kevin Lowden, Leithwood K., Marjorie Smith, May T., Nixon G., Paul Beaumont, Poole M., Rhodes C., Scottish Government, Simmons R., Stephen McKinney, Stuart Hall, Watson B.   +30 more
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source