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Exploring religions today: A quest for international knowledge transfer within the field of education for religious diversity.
No full textThe Exploring Religions Today collection of curriculum resources, developed to support the statutory requirements in Wales for religious education in primary schools, was influenced by the findings from a major research project that explored the attitudes of young people toward religion and toward life within religiously diverse societies. The aim of this paper is to explore the key findings that emerged from that research, to analyse the underlying pedagogical principles and to assess the transferability of these resources within the 2016 curriculum for Protestant religious education in Baden-Württemberg
Sustaining young Canadian Baptists in the faith. Exploring the connection between religious affect and parental religious attendance
No full textThis paper explores the impact of parental religious practice on sustaining positive religious affect among churchgoing young Canadian Baptists. A total of 299 participants between the ages of 12 and 18 years attending a summer youth programme sponsored by the Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada, completed the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity as a measure of positive religious affect, together with measures of frequency of church attendance for themselves, their mother and their father. These data identified fathers’ religious attendance as a statistically significant factor augmenting the effect of mothers’ religious attendance for sustaining young Canadian Baptists in the faith. The implications of this finding are discussed for pastoral practice
The association between recently diagnosed cancer and incidence of falling in older adults: An exploratory study
No full text:More than one in three older adults (≥65 years) fall within a two-year period. Over one third of cancer diagnoses are among people aged ≥75 years. Falls research in the UK cancer population is limited and contradictory. The aim of this study was to explore the association between a cancer diagnosis and incidence of falls in older adults in England. Data were extracted from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (an ongoing panel study) collected between 2002 and 2014, consisting of a representative cohort of older adults living in England. Baseline data were collected within two-years of a cancer diagnosis. Falls data were extracted from the subsequent two-year period. The unexposed group included those with no chronic conditions. The fully adjusted logistic regression analysis model included age, sex, wealth, and education level as covariates. We defined odds ratios between 0.67 and 1.5 as the region of practical equivalence. RESULTS:A total of 139 people had a type of cancer (exposed group) (Breast = 18.7%, Colon, Rectum or Bowel = 14.4%, Melanoma or Skin = 7.2%, Lung = 4.3%, Somewhere else = 51.8%) (70.6±7.1 years; 58.3%male) with 3,899 in the unexposed group (69.5±7.3 years; 54.6%male). The fully-adjusted odds ratio was 1.21 (95%CI: 0.81 to 1.82; P = 0.348). The probability of falling among the exposed group was 22.7%versus 19.5%for the unexposed group. CONCLUSION:The cancer and control groups were not statistically equivalent for falls incidence, and a meaningful positive association between cancer and falls cannot be ruled out. Further research is required to elucidate this relationship
Philosophical inquiry as a tool for well-being
No full textThis chapter examines using philosophy in schools with children. Philosophy, at its simplest, is engaged with actively thinking and reflecting about a range of topics and ideas. As we have seen in the chapters throughout this book, many approaches to supporting children, specifically those that step away from behaviourism, have a reflective and ‘thinking’ element. This was seen in the preceding chapters on restorative practices and solution focused approaches, but is a recurrent thread in sociological and systems theory approaches to behaviour. Aimee’s chapter will consider in depth how philosophy can support children’s well-being and impact on their behaviour.
This chapter aims to:
• Explore the research literature on philosophical inquiry with children
• Describe one of many ways in which philosophical inquiry can be used with children
• Consider three case studies of children in communities of inquir
Cannibalism, Charles Dickens, and Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition: “a fate as melancholy and dreadful as it is possible to imagine”
No full textThe absence of the figure of the cannibal in The Frozen Deep is central to this study that investigates Dickens’s representation of the fate of Frank- lin’s 1845 Arctic expedition “contrapuntally” (Said 1994: 59) by focusing on his dialogic exchange with Dr. John Rae that is at the origin of Dickens’s House- hold Words articles. Furthermore, it contextualises Dickens’s defence of Franklin’s reputation within the Victorian colonial discourse of cannibalism, wherein the term “describe[s] the ferocious devouring of human flesh supposedly practised by some savages” (Barker, Hulme, Iversen 1998: 4), and intersects it with Rae’s representation of anthropophagy to outline how Dickens’s imperial narrative, based on “a static notion of identity” built on absolute difference “between Europeans and their ‘others’” (Said 1994 xxviii), relegated the Inuit’s story to the margins
Feminisation, masculinisation and the other: Re-evaluating the Language Learning Decline in England
No full textModern Foreign Language (MFL) education has long been described as being ‘in crisis’ by virtue of a long decline in the numbers of students being entered for exams at age 16 and 18. Whilst this decline is generally attributed to policy, harsh grading and the rise of global English, this paper challenges this view by positioning the decline at the intersection of the feminising of the subject and an othering of the speakers of the languages taught. Using a loosely Foucauldian form of discourse analysis, academic literature, published reports on language needs and language teaching, and original qualitative data from two studies are drawn together. A feminising discourse around the subject of MFL is identified, juxtaposed with a masculinising discourse around education more generally, leading to the devaluing of the subject. Edward Said’s orientalism is explored as a framework for the discussion of the media and public ‘othering’ of the speakers of the languages commonly taught and the ‘fetishisation’ of less commonly taught languages. It is argued that overcoming the decline in uptake of modern foreign languages will require reconceptualising of the problem at policy level and a change in the media and public discourses surrounding the subject
Examining the connection between religion and attitude toward socio-economic human rights and attitude toward euthanasia and abortion among Romanian adolescents: Contrasting the effects of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity
No full textThis study examines the complex connection linking religion, social attitudes, and human rights in Romania, drawing on the classic distinction between extrinsic religiosity (as reflected in church attendance) and intrinsic religiosity (as reflected in personal prayer). The hypothesis that these
forms of religiosity may function differently in relation to different areas of social attitudes is tested among Romanian Orthodox adolescents (N = 400), drawing on validated measures developed by the International Empirical Research Program Religion and Human Rights 2.0 to assess attitude toward socio-economic human rights and attitude toward euthanasia and abortion. In respect of attitude
toward euthanasia and abortion, church attendance and personal prayer work in the same direction and with cumulative effect. Lowest acceptance of euthanasia and abortion is found among young people who attend church and pray. In respect of attitude toward socio-economic human rights, church attendance and personal prayer work in opposite directions. Frequent church attendance
(extrinsic religiosity) is associated with lower endorsement of socio-economic human rights. Frequent prayer (intrinsic religiosity) is associated with higher endorsement of socio-economic human rights
Looking at the birds, considering the lilies, and perceiving God’s Grace in the countryside: An empirical investigation in hermeneutical theory
No full textThis study is situated within the newly emerging interest in the concept of grace as a legitimate topic for empirical enquiry, and draws on the theoretical framework provided by the SIFT approach to biblical hermeneutics, an approach rooted in reader-perspective hermeneutical theory and in Jungian psychological type theory. Data were draw from two one-day workshops with Anglican Readers (lay ministers). On each occasion the participants were invited to divide into three separate groups according to their preferences for sensing or intuition (the two perceiving functions)and within these groups to explore the messages of grace in
Matthew 6: 25–30 (Jesus’ invitation to look at the birds and to consider the lilies). The rich data gathered from these workshops generated insights into contemporary theologies of grace and also confirmed the hypothesis that biblical interpretation is shaped by the reader’s psychological type preference for sensing or for intuition
