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Richard Jordan; Thomas M. Ward – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
We make two interventions in two evolving scholarly literatures. First, we show how fractal metaphors escape a recurring dichotomy in Christian pedagogical scholarship, the either/or of alienation from one's object of study versus union with it in "an act of love." Second, we try to replace recent interdisciplinary work's emphasis on…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Imagination, Alienation
Jonathan B. Schwab – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Faith development in college students constitutes an important topic in higher education research, and Modern Orthodox Jewish college students are a small but particularly under-studied group of college-goers. Using a qualitative phenomenological approach, this study explored how Modern Orthodox Jewish college students understood their religious…
Descriptors: College Students, Jews, Spiritual Development, Religious Education
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Carr, David – Philosophical Inquiry in Education, 2023
In contrast to both behaviourist and cognitive approaches to moral development, neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics has had recent fairly distinctive impact on thought about the practice of moral education. On this view, insofar as moral development is a matter of the cultivation of moral virtues, and virtues are basically qualities of character…
Descriptors: Role Models, Ethical Instruction, Moral Development, Moral Values
Grosz, Stephen J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This research explores how faith-based groups experience vocational discipleship within a shared context of generative craft learning. Qualitative interviews were conducted with thirty-one participants from nine different vocational groups to understand their formative experience of collaborative work. This study attempts to gain a critical…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Communities of Practice, Religious Factors, Cooperative Learning
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Irida Tsevreni – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
This study emphasises the need to empower spirituality within the framework of environmental education, and demonstrate its value as a vital component in the human-nature relationship. This is proposed through utilizing the meaning, content and practice of mindfulness. The examination of mindfulness, as a pedagogical philosophy as well as…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Environmental Education, Natural Resources, Metacognition
Matthew Joseph Phipps – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this project was to develop a training program at Hickory Grove Baptist Church to equip men for leadership. The focus of the training was to help men understand and demonstrate the principles of being a disciple of Christ who can make disciples so they can provide effective leadership within the church and in their homes. Chapter 1…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Males, Christianity, Leadership Qualities
Adrian Leigh Williams – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative descriptive study aimed to explore how faith-based mentors and Black male student mentees from low socioeconomic communities describe their use of social justice principles to engage in social activism in Northern California. Two research questions guided this study. The theoretical foundation for this study was the social justice…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship
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Phidel A. Baraza; Emmanuel Bellon – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2024
A well-informed perception of leaders is critical in how members of worship congregations experience spiritual formation. This study focuses on six selected worship congregations of Kenya's Christ Is The Answer Ministries (CITAM). The Straussian grounded-theory design was employed to analyze interviews and focus group discussions. The findings…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Neurological Impairments, Christianity, Religious Factors
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Jones, Benjamin – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2023
Since 1981, James Fowler's stage model of faith development has provided researchers with a framework for understanding the ways in which people develop belief systems over the course of their lives. Despite its helpfulness, there are several notable areas of critique that can be levelled against the model, including its lack of parsimony, heavy…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Guidelines, Beliefs, Religious Education
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Yust, Karen-Marie – Religious Education, 2023
The REA Annual Meeting 2023 theme is organized around the question, "Whose children are they?" as a way to explore diverse and intersecting ways that we take and/or assign responsibilities for children's religious education. In this essay, the Program Chair reflects on personal and scholarly experiences and questions that have framed and…
Descriptors: Children, Religious Education, Child Development, Spiritual Development
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Wenneborg, Emily G. – Philosophical Studies in Education, 2022
Education for pluralism--for living well with others in the midst of deep, inescapable differences--is a significant concern for philosophy of education. In this paper, the author draws the attention of philosophers of education to the resources for educating for pluralism that can be found in an altogether unexpected site: the liturgical…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Religious Factors, Cultural Pluralism, Christianity
Madeline LaPolla – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Feelings of distress over the unknowns of the future refers to an intolerance of uncertainty (IU). IU is significantly linked to internalizing disorders like anxiety. College students are in a unique position of uncertainty and anxiety as they emerge into adulthood. Additionally, external sources of uncertainty, like the economy, may contribute to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Spiritual Development, Coping, Anxiety
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Michael Kroth; Davin Carr-Chellman; Carol Rogers-Shaw – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
This chapter argues for the centrality of spirituality in lifelong and adult learning theory and practice. As embedded in human experience, the spirituality of learning, including exploring awe and wonder, is vital. We introduce the processes and outcomes of lifelong spiritual formation, profound learning, and human flourishing as underpinnings…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning
Lexi Gene Heringer Wimmer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Religious and spiritual (R/S) identities are not stagnant constructs, as may often be believed (Strawn, 2019). The landscape of religion and spirituality is shifting rapidly, and these changes point to individual experiences of R/S transition. One place these kinds of individual changes are occurring is within counselor training. Counselor…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Spiritual Development, Role of Religion, Counselor Training
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Nathaniel Woodward – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
The composer, author, and teacher, John Cage, was exercised by our 'inability' to truly listen when approaching sound. In exploring the influences on Cage's avant-garde style, specifically the spiritual discipline found in both Zen Buddhism and Chance operations, this paper attempts to distinguish his philosophy (and use) of "silence"…
Descriptors: Aesthetics, Educational Philosophy, Buddhism, Educational Theories
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