scholarly journals Textual Erasures of Religion: The Power of Books to Redefine Yoga and Mindfulness Meditation as Secular Wellness Practices in North American Public Schools

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Candy Gunther Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
North American ◽  
Mindfulness Meditation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
History Of

This essay argues that books, broadly defined to include print and internet publications, played a crucial role in the cultural mainstreaming, including adoption by public schools, of non-Christian religious practices such as yoga and meditation. Promotional books, tactically and ironically, played on the textual bias of Christianity, and especially Protestantism, to re-brand practices borrowed from religious traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism, as scientific techniques for exercise and stress-reduction, thereby reintegrating religion into public education. The essay begins with a brief history of religion in U.S. and Canadian public education, explains the textual bias of North American assumptions about religion, and analyzes how twentieth-century promoters of practice-centered religions tactically wielded books to increase public acceptance of non-Christian religious practices. The essay focuses on two twenty-first-century examples of religion-based, textually mediated public-school curricula: the Sonima Foundation’s Health and Wellness program of Ashtanga yoga and The Hawn Foundation’s MindUP program of mindfulness meditation.

The Vanishing Middle Class

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Temin
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
Criminal Justice Education ◽  
Dual Economy ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race ◽  
American Economy

This book analyses the American economy in the twenty-first century as a dual economy in the spirit of W. Arthur Lewis. Adapting the subsistence and capitalist sectors characterized by Lewis, the American dual economy contains a low-wage sector and a FTE (Finance, Technology, and Electronics) sector. The transition from the low-wage to the FTE sector is through education, which is becoming increasingly difficult for members of the low-wage sector because the FTE sector largely abandoned the American tradition of quality public schools and universities. Policy debates about public education and other policies that serve the low-wage sector often characterize members of the low-wage sector as black even though the low-wage sector is largely white. The model of a modern dual economy and the American history of race relations explain difficulties in both current politics and governmental actions in criminal justice, education, infrastructure and household debts.

The Publishers and Their Books

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Kathleen Wellman
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Bob Jones University ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Bible Reading

This chapter discusses the three publishers of the textbooks this book treats: Bob Jones University, Abeka Books, and Accelerated Christian Education. It addresses when and why they began to publish and the controversies and legal challenges they subsequently generated. It explores the history of their sponsoring educational institutions and their stated missions. It places them in the context of Christian opposition to public education as it developed in response to the teaching of evolution, the Supreme Court decisions of the 1960s prohibiting prayer and Bible reading in public schools, and, most importantly, desegregation. These three publishers have offered an alternative “Christian” education since the early 1970s.

ورقة حقائق: رأس الخيمة

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
School Type ◽  
Fact Sheet ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
History Of

This Fact Sheet provides on overview of the education sector in the United Arab Emirates, and in particular, Ras Al Khaimah. It outlines the history of the development of formal education in the country, the important regulatory systems and bodies of both the private and public education sectors, the operational and curricular difference between private and public schools, and the demographics of both the students and teachers by region and school type.

scholarly journals What Comes to an End When a “Religion” Comes to an “End”? Reflections on a Historiographical Trope and Ancient Mediterranean History of Religion

Numen ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 204-229
Author(s):  
Jörg Rüpke
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Conceptual Frameworks ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Mediterranean History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Dimensions

Abstract This article argues that the neglect of narratives about the end of religious traditions is due to a complex entanglement of our positions as historical narrators and specifics of the sources for histories of religions, that is of emic and academic narrators. Typically, academic histories are not only based on emic narratives, but also tend to accept their conceptual frameworks with regard to the unities of description. It will be shown that such an entanglement has consequences for the neglect of the end of religious practices or groups. Against this background an analytical grid for change and discontinuation of different dimensions of “religion” will be offered and exemplified in an analysis of the “end of Paganism” in the late ancient Roman Empire. The most problematic implications of such narratives, the article will argue, are assumptions about the coherence of the religious protagonists brought center-stage.

Getting Ruby a Quality Public Education: Forty-Two Years of Building the Demand for Quality Public Schools through Parental and Public Involvement

2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 570-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARNOLD FEGE
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Public Education ◽  
School Improvement ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Access To Data

In this article, Arnold Fege identifies parental and public engagement as critical to sustaining equity in public education. He traces the history of this engagement from the integration of schools after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the implementation in 1965 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act through the provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). He finds that while NCLB gives parents access to data, it does not foster use of that information to mobilize the public to get involved in school improvement. Fege concludes with historical lessons applicable to the reauthorization of NCLB, emphasizing enforcement of provisions for both parental and community-based involvement in decisionmaking, resource allocation, and assurance of quality and equity.

The Paulo Freire System

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-292
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Torres
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Critical Hermeneutics ◽  
Adult Educator ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education In Brazil

Abstract This article discusses the origins and structure of what for the lack of a better term I will call the ‘Paulo Freire System’. Focusing on the historical experience of Angicos which catapulted Freire to world fame as an adult educator, a major claim of this article is that Freire’s work was a much more ambitious and revolutionary project than transforming adult education and literacy training becoming another landmark in the history of popular education in the region. The Angicos experience connecting public education with popular culture, the system that Freire and associates imagined in the sixties aimed for a profound and revolutionary transformation of public education in Brazil. With his exile in 1964, popular education becomes a model that could deeply affect public education worldwide. Represented theoretically in the pages of Pedagogy of the Oppressed, a pedagogical classic of the twenty first century, education is for Freire critical hermeneutics, addressing the dilemmas of citizenship building with a postcolonial ethics.

scholarly journals A quem pertencem nossas escolas?

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Rogério Cunha de Castro ◽  
Lia Ciomar Macedo de Faria
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Education ◽  
International Association ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Educational Issues ◽  
History Of

O fechamento arbitrário de escolas pela Rede Estadual de Educação de São Paulo, exatamente no momento em que celebramos o sesquicentenário do Congresso de Genebra (1866), momento em que os internacionalistas congregados em torno da Associação Internacional dos Trabalhadores elegeram a educação como uma das suas principais bandeiras, reconduz as questões educacionais ao centro das discussões, consagrando-as como uma das nossas mais pungentes demandas. Nesse sentido, observamos que, no campo da história da educação, revisar experiências pedagógicas do passado nos auxilia a encontrar pistas e indícios de permanências que podem ancorar nossas lutas pela educação pública deste século XXI.To whom do our schools belong? The arbitrary closure of public schools in São Paulo, at exactly the time when we celebrate the 160th Geneva Congress (1866), a time when the internationalists gathered around the Workers' International Association elected education as one of its main flags, reappoints educational issues to the center of discussions, consecrating them as one of our urgent demands. In this sense, the field of History of Education, is important to review educational experiences of our past because they helps us to find evidences and clues of continuities that can anchoring our struggles for public education in this XXI century. Keywords: International Workers Association; Modern Schools; Ocupated Schools; São Paulo.

God and the Green Divide

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda J. Baugh
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race Ethnicity

American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How did that happen and what are the implications? Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the “greening” of religion, God and the Green Divide examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the daily lives of urban Americans. Baugh argues that the spread of religious environmentalism in the United States has relied not simply on the “ecological dimensions” of scriptures, theology, and religious traditions, but also on latent assumptions about race, ethnicity, and class. By carefully examining negotiations of racial and ethnic identities as central to the history of religious environmentalism, this work complicates assumptions that religious environmentalism is a direct expression of theology, ethics, or religious beliefs.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Physical Object ◽  
The United States ◽  
Art Music ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in America is designed to address a noticeable void in resources focused on analyzing the Bible in America in specific historical moments and in relationship to specific institutions and cultural expressions. Paying attention to the Bible from its earliest appearance in seventeenth-century New England up through its presence and usage in twenty-first century America, this handbook takes seriously the fact that the Bible is both a physical object that has exercised considerable totemic power, as well as a text with a powerful intellectual design that has inspired a wide range of cultural rituals, social policies, and artistic expression. This Handbook brings together a number of established scholars, as well as younger scholars on the rise, to provide insightful overviews and rich bibliographic resources to those interested in the Bible’s role in the history of American cultural formation. Topics addressed in the Handbook include—but are not limited to—the Bible’s production, translation, distribution, and interpretation in the United States, the Bible’s usage and relationship to a host of American religious traditions and social movements, as well the Bible’s linkage to such things as American cinema, literature, art, music, amusement parks, environmentalism, theories of gender and race, education, and politics.

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