Measuring the Contribution of Independent Christian Secondary Schools to Students' Religious, Personal, and Social Values

Autor/inn/en	Francis, Leslie J.; ap Siôn, Tania; Village, Andrew
Titel	Measuring the Contribution of Independent Christian Secondary Schools to Students' Religious, Personal, and Social Values
Quelle	In: Journal of Research on Christian Education, 23 (2014) 1, S.29-55 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1065-6219
DOI	10.1080/10656219.2014.882723
Schlagwörter	Secondary School Students; Christianity; Religious Education; Foreign Countries; Student Attitudes; Churches; Comparative Analysis; Religious Factors; Social Values; Moral Values; Individual Characteristics; Correlation; Self Esteem; Racial Bias; Drug Use; Sexuality; Crime; Comparative Education; Questionnaires; Surveys; Attitude Measures; Predictor Variables; Item Analysis; Social Class; Parochial Schools; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Wales) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarschüler; Christentum; Kirchliche Erziehung; Religionserziehung; Religionspädagogik; Ausland; Schülerverhalten; Church; Kirche; Sozialer Wert; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Korrelation; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Drug consumption; Substance abuse; Drogenkonsum; Sexualität; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Fragebogen; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Prädiktor; Itemanalyse; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Konfessionsschule
Abstract	From the late 1960s independent Christian schools have emerged in England and Wales, initiated either by churches or by parents. Many of these new independent schools are linked through the Christian Schools Trust. The impact that these schools are exerting on their students may be of interest for the churches with which they are associated and of concern for wider society. The political debate concerning these schools has so far been informed by only a small number of empirical studies conducted in England and Wales. The present study extends previous research in three ways. It offers a comparative study by examining the responses of 271 year-nine and year-ten students (age 13 to 15 years) from 11 independent Christian schools with 20,348 students from 93 schools without a religious foundation. It examines a range of religious, social and personal values. It employs multilevel models to identify the contribution made by independent Christian schools after taking into account personal, psychological, and contextual differences within the students themselves. The hypothesis was that Christian schools were committed to developing distinctly Christian values among their students. The data supported this hypothesis. Even after allowing for differences in the religiosity of the students themselves, attendance at an independent Christian school was associated with higher self-esteem, greater rejection of drug use, lower endorsing of illegal behaviors, lower racism, higher levels of conservative Christian belief, and more conservative views on sexual morality (abortion, contraception, divorce, homosexuality, and sex outside marriage). (As Provided).
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