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Zhao, Zhenzhou – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
A growing body of research has documented the escalating popularity of religion among student populations in China's higher education settings. Despite the changes sustained by China's religious policies throughout the post-Mao era, the state has not abandoned its long-standing approach of cultivating citizenship through Marxist-Leninist-oriented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Citizenship Education, Political Socialization
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Yap, Siew Fong – Issues in Educational Research, 2014
The realisation to integrate science, ethics and morality is recognised with growing impetus in recent years (as noted with introducing the Australian Curriculum "Science as a Human Endeavour" strand), to develop sophisticated epistemologies of science, which includes an appreciation of the social context including ethical thinking. To…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Values, Ethics, Moral Values
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Wintersgill, Barbara – International Journal of Children's Spirituality, 2008
This research investigates teenagers' perceptions of spirituality. The author considers how far teenage ideas mirrored the many academic theories of spirituality-in-education that have influenced policy makers. Comparisons are made particularly with the theories of four scholars who have dominated the debate over the last twenty years: Jack…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Religious Factors, Research Reports, Adolescent Attitudes
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Tisdell, Elizabeth J. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background Context: There has been much recent discussion on the role of spirituality in higher education, and much emphasis in the past 20 years on the importance of attending to diversity and equity concerns, though for the most part these discussions have been separate. This paper takes up the suggestion of scholars such as Barbara Wallace who…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Higher Education, Imagination, Multicultural Education