Religious education and identity formation: encountering religious and cultural diversity

Teachers and the religious socialization of adolescents: facilitation of meaningful religious identity formation processes.

This study investigated the effects of religious education on student religious identity over and above parent religiosity by examining student perceptions of two aspects of teacher functioning: teacher caring and teacher as role-model. We posited that effects of these variables on students' religious identity are mediated by student perceptions that the school provides a non-alienating religio...

Cultural Identity and Diversity in Deaf Education

Parasnis is an associate professor in the department of Applied Language and Cognition Research at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY. Her primary research interests are in visual cognition, bilingualismbiculturalism, and deaf education. The perspective that deaf people' should be regarded primarily as a cultural and language minority...

culture, identity, and language education: home culture attachment, social/cultural capital, demographic factors and self-identity changes among iranian efl teachers

: در تحقیقی که پیش روی دارید ابتدا سعی شده است که نقش میزان بهره مندی مدرسان زبان انگلیسی از سرمایه های فرهنگی و اجتماعی در چارچوب نظریه بوردیو(1986) بر میزان وابستگی آن ها به فرهنگ خودی بررسی شود. لذا دو پرسشنامه به طورهمزمان بین 342 مدرس زبان انگلیسی در بیش از 25 موسسه ی خصوصی زبان انگلیسی در سطح شهر مشهد توزیع شد. رابطه ی بین میزان دسترسی به سرمایه فرهنگی و اجتماعی و وابستگی به فرهنگ خودی از...

Latino Religious Affiliation and Ethnic Identity

Despite the pervasiveness of Catholicism among Latinos, studies reveal an increasing shift toward Protestantism. Examining the relationship between religion and ethnicity, we explore homeland language use as a core ethnic marker using a survey from the Pew Hispanic Center. Results reveal that Catholic Latinos are significantly more likely to use Spanish at home, even after controlling for other...

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