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| Investigating spiritual well-being among Islamic Divinity and Religious Education students in Turkey.
| Fisher, John W.
Coscun, Mehmet Kamil | 2013 |
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Title: Investigating spiritual well-being among Islamic Divinity and Religious Education students in Turkey.
Author(s): Fisher, John W. | Coscun, Mehmet Kamil |
Journal Details: Religious Education Journal of Australia v.29 n.2 p.21-28
Published: 2013
ISSN: 0815-3094
Abstract: In light of increased emphasis on universities being called to facilitate spiritual growth among students, the Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure was used to assess four domains of spiritual well-being among 122 Divinity and 137 Religious Education students five universities in the East, West, North, South and centre of Turkey. Spiritual well-being was assessed using SHALOM, a 20-item questionnaire that sought three responses for each item. The responses indicated the importance of each item for each respondent's 'ideals' and 'lived experience' for spiritual well-being, as well as the 'level of help' they believe they obtain from the university in each area, Students provided three responses to 20 items reflecting spiritual well-being, indicating their ideals for spiritual well-being, lived experience and how much university helped in each area. Another 16 potential factors were explored to help students develop their spiritual well-being, ranging from self-improvement to scripture. High scores on ideals for spiritual well-being, reported by both groups of students, underpin the lived experiences of Religious Education & Divinity students in each of four domains of spiritual wellbeing. Relating with God significantly influenced aspects of spiritual well-being but it appears that the highly religious students overstate the influence of religious activities, such as prayer and scripture, on their spiritual wellbeing. Universities provide small yet significant support in developing the four domains of spiritual well-being for these students. Overall, this study has shown many similarities, yet some significant variations in spiritual well-being between these Divinity and Religious Education students in Turkey. This project provides a sound base from which future studies can be launched to review, enhance and monitor university students' spiritual well-being and to determine the influence of these students' spiritual wellbeing on the clients they will serve after graduating and gaining employment. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=199261
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| The Islamic turn in Australia and the Christian West.
| Pascoe, Robert | 2010 |
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Title: The Islamic turn in Australia and the Christian West.
Author(s): Pascoe, Robert |
Journal Details: Education and Society v.28 n.3 p.51-70
Published: 2010
ISSN: 0726-2655
Abstract: This article examines Muslims in Australia and their location in the intercultural dialogue. It is argued that cultural diversity and human rights are particularly relevant in future discourses regarding Muslims. It discusses the Islamic Turn as the increasing attention by Western civilisations in Islam, the Arab world and the Middle East, due to the representations of Islam in the events of September 11 and the London bombings. The Christian West view of Islam is discussed through discussion of scholarship and immigration pre- and post-September 11, as well as barriers to understanding Islam in Australian society. [Author abstract, ed]
URL (conditional access) : http://dx.doi.org/10.7459/es/28.3.04
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| Hijacking terrorism studies.
| Bendle, M. F. | 2008 |
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Title: Hijacking terrorism studies.
Author(s): Bendle, M. F. |
Journal Details: Quadrant v.52 n.9 p.34-41
Published: September 2008
ISSN: 0033-5002
Abstract: In the realm of ideology, the war on terrorism is Over-terrorism won. Is this assessment too bleak? Perhaps, but seven years after 9/11 the signs are not good. Various commentators have described how 'the war of ideas' against terrorism and its associated ideologies is being lost in the UK, Europe and the US, while in Australia the one book that attempted to describe local jihadism (Martin Chulov, Australian Jihad) was with- drawn under legal pressure. The author contends that the study of terrorism had either been ignored in Australia or had been colonised by the radical, postmodern Left, which was assimilating the study of terrorism to its prevailing ideological paradigm based on class, race, gender, anti- Americanism and cultural relativism, often under the guise of the neo-Marxist 'critical terror studies' approach.
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=173178
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| Islamic and Christian educational anthropology.
| Alavi, Hamid Reza | 2008 |
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Title: Islamic and Christian educational anthropology.
Author(s): Alavi, Hamid Reza |
Journal Details: Journal of Christian Education v.51 n.3 p.33-42
Published: December 2008
ISSN: 0021-9657
Abstract: This research study investigated and clarified the shared religious foundations of anthropology in Islam and Christianity and the effect of lslamic and Christian anthropology on education. Therefore, this article has two parts: 1) an identification of shared Islamic and Christian anthropology, and 2) the effect of this shared Islamic and Christian anthropology on Islamic education. In the first part, the goals of man's creation, man's personality, and man's responsibility are investigated in relation to Islam and Christianity so that a shared religious model of anthropology might be developed. In the second part of the article, the effects of such anthropology are studied and clarified in terms of Islamic education. Also in this part, the definition of education, the goals of education, and educational procedures are investigated. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=181520
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| An integrated house project : bringing science and other learning areas together.
| Sheffield, R.
Al-baghdadi, R. | 2006 |
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Title: An integrated house project : bringing science and other learning areas together.
Author(s): Sheffield, R. | Al-baghdadi, R. |
Journal Details: Teaching Science v.52 n.3 p.37-41
Published: Spring 2006
ISSN: 1449-6313
Abstract: Year 8 students at the Australian Islamic College in Perth, Western Australia were required to research, plan, design and build a small-scale house with a working electrical lighting systems as part of their science assessment in term 3 of 2005. The project integrated the teaching areas of science, mathematics, English, society and environment, Arabic, Islamic studies and physical education. Students wrote a report and presented their house for display in their classroom at the conclusion of the topic. The purpose of this article is to examine the implementation of the project and evaluate the outcomes in terms of student attitudes and understanding of the science underpinning the project. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=156022
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| Islamization of disciplines : towards an indigenous educational system.
| Dangor, S. | 2005 |
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Title: Islamization of disciplines : towards an indigenous educational system.
Author(s): Dangor, S. |
Journal Details: Educational Philosophy and Theory v.37 n.4 p.519-531
Published: August 2005
ISSN: 0013-1857
Abstract: The past two decades has witnessed the mushrooming of Islamic schools in Europe, the United States and South Africa. Initially these schools were concerned essentially with providing an Islamic ethos for learners. More recently, however, they have begun to focus on the process of Islamization. The Islamization project was initiated in the United States by Muslim academics including Isma'il al-Faruqi, Syed Husain Nasr and Fazlur Rahman as a response to the secularisation of Muslim society, including its educational institutions. In essence Islamization means including Islamic disciplines in the curriculum, providing an Islamic perspective on issues in the syllabi and locating, where possible, secularized disciplines within the Islamic weltanschauung. Six international conferences have been held to date at different locations in the Muslim World. The first five generated conceptual papers on the Islamic approach to knowledge and education and inspired academics to write research papers on their disciplines from an Islamic perspective. Most of these have been published in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. The three universities which were established to drive the process have had varying degrees of success. The sixth conference which was held in South Africa took the form of workshops where South African teachers and international academics were brought together to generate Islamised syllabi for the major school disciplines. This article attempts to explain the rationale for Islamic schools and their attempts at Islamization of disciplines. In my view, this is an important development in the context of demands for the revival of indigenous knowledge systems. [Author abstract]
URL (conditional access) : http://library.acer.edu.au/document/?document_id=145096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-5812.2005.00138.x
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