Belief in God among South African youth by Johannes A. van der Ven, Jaco S. Dreyer, Hendrik J. Pietrse

“…This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region. Within their belief in God they make use of different interpretations, namely anthropomorph theism and panentheism, non-anthropomorph theism and panentheism, as well as what is called aniconic transcendent pantheism. …”
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Standards Setting in Religious Education: Addressing the Quality of Teaching and Assessment Practices by Antonella Poncini

“…Furthermore, given the prominence of the Catholic Church’s mission of evangelisation and the nature and role of RE in Catholic schools as part of that mission, the paper endorses the Church’s current stance on thoughtful dialogue and renewed efforts to bring a better understanding about Catholic culture and education to the world.…”
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The geographical distribution of Church schools in England by Gay, JD, Greenough, J

“…There are separate analyses of the distribution of Church of England aided schools, of controlled schools and of both types combined, of Roman Catholic schools and then of all types of church school. …”

L’Église catholique, l’État et le fait scolaire au Burkina Faso by Stéphanie Baux

“…Based on a study carried out in southwest LOBI villages, this article analyses Catholic Church and governments parts in schooling processes, from the early missionary and colonial actions to the nationalization of catholic schools by the independent State in 1969, and the present difficult retrocession. …”
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Les écoles au Sénégal : de l’enseignement officiel au daara, les modèles et leurs répliques by Jean-Émile Charlier

“…The state education remains the reference, but its weak effectiveness and its politization are often criticized. The catholic schools are unanimously appreciated, they combine formalization and effectiveness. …”
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Belief in God among South African youth and its relation to their religious socialization and praxis by Jobannes A.P van der Ven, Jaco S. Dreyer, Hendrik J. Pieterse

“…This article investigates belief in God among 538 students from standard 9 who attend Anglican and Catholic schools in the Johannesburg/Pretoria region, and relates this  belief to the students' religious socialization and praxis. …”
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Exploring researchers’ perspectives and experiences of digital childhoods research in schools by Anna Bunn, Madeleine Dobson

“…It will report on the patterns apparent in existing literature in terms of how much research is being undertaken in independent, government, or Catholic schools, as well as researchers’ experiences working across Australian states and territories. …”
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Religious Education (RE) as a <i>Context</i>: The Subcultures That Shape Teacher’s Work When Teaching This Subject in Australian Catholic Secondary Schools by Brendan Hyde, Anthony Sylvester Anning

“…Knowledge of these may better assist schools—and Catholic Schools’ Departments—to orient and support these teachers in their classroom practice.…”
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Catholic secondary education and identity reformation in Zambia’s Southern Province: an outcome of a conflict of educational policy values or not? by Farrelli Hambulo, Leonie Gysbertha Higgs

“…Catholics and other people concerned with the welfare of Catholic education have started to express their discontent with the identity reformation experienced by Catholic schools. This article, therefore, critically engages with Carmody’s (2007) contentions regarding the causes of undesired identity reformation in Catholic schools and relates them specifically to Catholic secondary schools in Zambia’s Southern Province in order to verify them. …”
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The Challenge of Greening Religious Schools by Improving the Environmental Competencies of Teachers by Rafael Robina-Ramírez, M. Isabel Sánchez-Hernández, Héctor V. Jiménez-Naranjo, Carlos Díaz-Caro

“…Our hypotheses are tested through a structural equation model on a sample of 214 biology and religion teachers from 118 Catholic schools in Spain who voluntary participated in a survey. …”
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The concept of God in preschool children: its relation with the children´s God concept that the catechist´s attributes them by Fabián Gallego

“…A dialogue was established between the information gathered from two sources: the results obtained from a series of interviews with five-year-old children and the data resulting from a survey addressed to all preschool teacher-catechists who work in catholic schools which belong to the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires. …”
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Looking to the Past and Moving to the Future: a Catholic High School Religious Curriculum for the 21st Century by Joe STAFFORD

“…Two questions are addressed: Why are Catholic schools failing to graduate well-informed, active Catholics and what changes are needed in the high school curriculum in order to reverse this trend? …”
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Het vak levensbeschouwing op middelbare rooms-katholieke scholen by Monique van Dijk-Groeneboer

“… In the secularised Netherlands, Roman Catholic schools are populated by a diverse population of which Catholics are only a minority. …”
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Onderwijsvrijheid in Vlaanderen en in Nederland by Leni Franken

“…The main reasons for this claim are (1) the diversity between different faith-based schools in the Netherlands compared to a more or less mono-religious model in Flanders; (2) the diversity within faith-based schools in the Netherlands, compared to the centralized governance of most Flemish faith-based (Catholic) schools; and (3) the policy of including religious symbols in most Dutch schools, versus a policy of exclusion in most Flemish schools. …”
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Disaster Risk Reduction Management Practices of Augustinian Recollect Schools in Negros Island by Lino Z. Sumbillo Jr., Dennis V. Madrigal

“…Section 14 of the Act tasked the DepEd, CHED, and TESDA to incorporate DRRM in the school curricula, both public and private, including Catholic schools such as the Augustinian Recollect schools. …”
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A Narrative Approach to Discerning Some Key Issues for Catholic Education in a More Synodal Church by Richard Rymarz

“…Narratives are used as a suitable instrument to gain deep insights into the lived experience of teachers working in Catholic schools. Several concurrent themes are identified as emerging issues for a more synodal church. …”
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Remote secondary education retention: What helps First Nations students stay until, and complete, year 12 by John Guenther, Robyn Ober, Rhonda Oliver, Catherine Holmes

“…The research focused on remote and very remote independent and Catholic schools. The findings suggest several factors encourage retention, including the supportive role of families (although questions remain on how families might also be supported to encourage their children), the quality of teachers and their teaching, specific school programs and initiatives, post-school pathways, and boarding schools. …”
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The churches and the training of teachers in England and Wales by Gay, J

“…The Roman Catholic Church had always been clear that the task of its colleges was to train Catholic teachers for Catholic schools. The Church of England, as the established church, had operated on a more complex and changing set of interrelated principles and motives which were closely linked with the national development of the educational system as a whole. …”

Scaling up a school-based intervention to increase physical activity and reduce sedentary behaviour in children: protocol for the TransformUs hybrid effectiveness–implementation tr... by Chris Lonsdale, David R Lubans, Harriet Koorts, Adrian Bauman, Helen Brown, Karen E Lamb, Anna Timperio, Jo Salmon, Taren Sanders, Nicola D Ridgers, Amanda Telford, Lisa Barnett, Lauren Arundell, Samuel K Lai, Jacqueline Della Gatta, Natalie Lander, Katrina Wilhite

“…Linear mixed-effects models will be fitted to compare outcomes between intervention and control participants accounting for clustering of children within schools, confounding and random effects.Ethics and dissemination The trial was approved by the Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee (HEAG-H 28_2017), Victorian Department of Education, the NSW Department of Education, Australian Catholic University (2017-145R), Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools and Catholic Schools NSW. Partners, schools/teachers and parents will provide an informed signed consent form prior to participating. …”
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Hoe geven we les in en over de islam? by Welmoet Boender, Leni Franken

“…We also show how Catholic schools in Flanders have reflected on a suitable offer for the increasing number of pupils with a Muslim background in these schools. …”
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