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EdukasiaThis study investigates the evalution of Islamic Religious Education (IRE) policies in Indonesia and their impact on educational quality, access, and institutional competitiveness.
Arifatul Ma’ani +2 more
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Does School Education Reduce the Likelihood of Societal Conflict in Africa? [PDF]
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that education, as measured by the average schooling years in the population aged 15 and above, reduces the likelihood of societal conflicts in Africa. It focuses on a sample of 31 African countries during 1960-
Julius Agbor
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Evaluating the quality of society and public services [PDF]
, 2010 A person’s quality of life is not only shaped by individual choices and behaviour: the surrounding environment and the public services on offer have a big influence on how people perceive the society they live in and on their evaluation of their own ...
Newton, Kenneth, Rose, Richard
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Promoting caring communities through collective action
American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Current times call for the promotion of caring communities through collective action. In caring communities, we feel connected, experience a sense of belonging, and deeply care about each other's health and well‐being. Seymour Sarason's notion of social change as the creation of settings may have anticipated the art and practice of creating ...
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar
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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987-2005 [PDF]
, 2007 Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India.
Bhaumik, SK, Chakrabarty, M
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Systems and structures designed to protect and support young people, specifically (in this paper) young women, are ironically the same systems that maintain gender disparity. Consequently, this has influenced the embodied identities of young women who experience and use violence. Such systemic and structural intersectionality has impacted upon
Louise Rak +3 more
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, 2011 This important book recognises that issues of religion and education in Europe need to be addressed in an interdisciplinary way. Not only do research methods from the social sciences and humanities need to be applied, but insights from a range of ...
Jackson, Robert
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster +4 more
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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Restructuring Religious Education for Development Sustainability in the 21st Century Nigeria
ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBOThe importance of education to national development and growth especially in Nigeria cannot be overlooked. It plays vital roles in the resources essential for societal growth and it should be noted that these resources include human resources as ...
Bolayemi. O. S. Alaka-Osinowo
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