This volume examines the agency of second/foreign language teachers in diverse geographical contexts and in both K-12 and adult education. It offers new understandings and conceptualizations of second/foreign language teacher agency through a variety of types of empirical data. It also demonstrates the use of different methodologies or analytic…

The guidebook, designed for professionals and paraprofessionals working with disabled persons in parishes, schools, and institutions, examines issues in religious education with disabled persons. Papers focus on integration of disabled persons into the religious educational community and into the Christian community. S. Hall makes a plea for full…

How the Catholic TV Network of Chicago services parishes, schools, community. (Author)

Guidelines for use of multi-media kits as viable methods of organizing material to suit lesson approaches in church religious education programs are discussed with stress on accurate, detailed cataloging of such materials. (Author/MBR)

Presents evidence connecting community service and religiousness in American youth. These data from nationally representative samples strengthen the case that the many contemporary youth who take religion seriously are vibrantly engaged in their schooling, in the betterment of communities, and the development of identities that presage healthy…

Parish religious education programs for children and young people are examined with emphasis on how these programs are administered and operated, how students evaluate them, and what organizational and program factors are characteristic of particularly effective programs. Nominations for effective programs were solicited from 83 dioceses, and 258…

An analysis of missionary education of slaves in the British West Indies from 1800 to 1833 examines the aims of missionary education and how they were either congruent with or antithetical to the society in which they operated; the methods of instruction; the nature of content and materials; and the impact on the slave society in the West Indies.…

Urges Catholic educators to view students within the context of their family and other social relationships and to use family relationships as a criterion to assess the impact of policies, programs, and services. Considers ways educators can gather more complete information about parish families. (DMM)

Clarifies the constitutional issue raised by government efforts to cooperate with faith-based organizations, noting that while programs can be constitutional without necessarily being good public policy, too frequently political and constitutional controversies mix these two considerations, thus confusing those trying to understand and resolve…

Argues that program coordinators should think of their volunteers as unpaid staff, and should manage their volunteers accordingly. Presents tips for a successful volunteer program: believing in volunteers, ensuring administrative support, appointing a volunteer coordinator, developing job descriptions, targeting recruitment, screening volunteers,…

This paper traces the history of two mission projects and associated schools in rural Kentucky and examines how the missionaries' social constructions of reality with regard to Appalachia determined their actions. The two mission projects studied were Red Bird Missionary Conference of the United Methodist Church and Hazel Green Academy of the…

This book is a comprehensive guide to the philosophy, organization, and management of a mentoring program for African American girls. It is based on a program sponsored by the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston (Texas). This program matches between 25 and 50 young women with Christian women mentors. The program emphasizes Christian values,…

Describes a volunteer effort involving community church groups and secondary school children in an effort to provide a summer learning experience for children in public housing. Reviews advantages of the program and what can be learned from it. (TB)

The first part of this paper challenges the traditional dichotomy between formal and informal education. Part two discusses a variety of nonformal education programs in the United States. The concluding section highlights the biases in favor of more affluent youngsters and the national character of much nonformal education. (Author/SJL)

Gives insight into the difficulties of providing religious instruction for Turkish migrant children in the Federal Republic of Germany by describing Turkish religious instruction relative to its institutional and religio-political context. Focuses on the principle of separation of church and state and its influence upon the coexistence of these…