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Religious Education Provides: Among other activities, the religious education provides Education Association organizes seminars, round tables, and workshops and holds occasional national conventions: (1) to discuss the theories, philosophy, and methods of religious education provides and character education; (2) to consider ways of enhancing the adequacy and quality of religion in American education through schools, colleges, churches, synagogues, and other agencies; (3) to help leaders of religious education provides and character education to become aware of the findings of research in the pedagogy, psychology, and sociology of religion, theology, and other disciplines, as it bears on religious education provides and character formation ; (4) to stimulate research and experimentation in the entire field of religious education provides and character education.
In medieval Europe, citizenship education was tied closely to the church and to religious education provides education, a characteristic that has persisted. In some Protestant areas of Germany, for example, Lutheran influence is reflected in provisions for religious education provides instruction. In Spain and in Italy the state and the Catholic church have been partners in education for centuries. Such religious influence in public education has declined, however, in a number of countries.
The (REA), an organization of religious and educational leaders, concerned with promoting and improving religious education provides education in the United States and Canada. It was founded in 1903 in Chicago, 111., at a convention called by 200 prominent religious education provides and educational leaders. The association's original objectives were stated as follows: "to inspire the educational forces of our country with the religious education provides ideal; to inspire the religious education provides forces of our country with the educational ideal; and to keep before the public mind the ideal of religious education provides education and the sense of its need and value." |
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