...Research Paper Topic: Buddhism Michael Kolbe July 21, 2010 Research Paper Religions of the World MW 6:00-9:15 Abstract/Thesis: The Religion Buddhism comes from the story of Gautama Siddhartha. Siddhartha was prophesized to be a world ruler or a spiritual leader, and despite his parents attempts to facilitate the former he chose the latter. It was originally founded in India, but spread to other parts of Asia, Including China and Japan. In China and Japan the differences in culture force Buddhism to be changed slightly in some cases and a little more in others. Bothe China and Japan have started schools/sects that differ from the original Buddhism. In this paper I will explain the teachings and Origin of Buddhism and briefly describe some of the schools/sects that have sprouted up in China and Japan. After describing these schools/sects I will compare them and their principals to those of the original Buddhist teachings from India. This paper will describe how Buddhism spread across Asia and became known as a religion rather than just teachings. Buddhism is a Religion, founded in India, which came from the teachings of Gautama Siddhartha or “the Buddha”. Although no missionary movements were developed, Buddhism was still spread around Asia. The spread occurred because of Shakyamuni Buddha, who was a teacher. He traveled around to different kingdoms sharing his teachings to those that would listen. (The Spread of Buddhism in Asia 1) Even though he instructed...
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...solution-tree.com for details. the journey continues solution-tree.com 800.733.6786 “After several months of research and dialogue with practitioners throughout the nation, it became apparent that the hype was real. PLCs . . . are being used by schools and districts of all sizes and demographics to make significant impacts on student achievement.” —Evaluating Professional Learning Communities: Final Report An APQC® Education Benchmarking Project Overview The Professional Learning Communities at WorkTM process is increasingly recognized as the most powerful strategy for sustained, substantive school improvement. These institutes give you and your team the knowledge and tools to implement this powerful process in your school or district. As you delve deep into the three big ideas of a PLC—focus on learning, build a collaborative culture, and results orientation— you will gain specific, practical, and inspiring strategies for transforming your school or district into a place where all students learn at high levels. Why Attend 3 Big Ideas That Drive a PLC The Presentation Leading experts deliver keynote presentations and breakout sessions designed to develop your capacity for building a PLC. Explore the three big ideas essential to sustained school improvement and higher levels of learning for all....
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...Aguillard in 1987. In this case, Louisiana had passed the “Creationism Act”, which prohibited teaching evolution in public schools, unless accompanied with creation science. This act did not mandate that either topic must be taught, unless the other is taught. Those that opposed the bill and filed suit included parents, teachers and religious officials. They argued the story of creation is Biblical and should not be taught in schools. The defendant, Edwards, argued teaching both theories together allows students to choose which theory aligns with their personal beliefs. The court ruled in favor of Aguillard on the fact the federal government is not allowed by law to use its powers to advance or repress any religious group by the provisions of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. The court also noted that teaching “creation science” tailored to advancing the Judeo-Christian faith. This case is an example for future separation of church and state in classroom...
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...Freedom of Religion and Public Education The United States came to be because people fled their homes in search of one thing, religious freedom. It was the search for religious freedom that motivated people to leave their homes and cross thousands of miles on boats to come to America. This search for the right to practice religion freely is the reason that religious freedom is considered so important in the United States. And it is secured for its citizens through the first amendment, which reads “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ...” (as cited by Killian, 1994). This part of the article calls for the separation of church and state as well as the protection of religious...
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...“In many parts of the world today religious education is facing dramatic challenges.” (catholicireland.net, 2012). We live in a world where society is greatly affected by the ways and customs of different religions and cultures. The questioning of the relationship between religion and education in Ireland has been a sizeable debate recently. The increase in immigration etc. has resulted in new and diverse religions and cultures being introduced into Irish society. Naturally this means that change is imminent. When people first heard that I would be studying to become a religious education teacher their reactions were mostly what I had expected. The look on their face said it all for most people. I could tell they were thinking that religious education was not a real subject. That is was merely a subject where you could catch up on homework or sit back, relax and watch a movie. Of course my natural instinct was to defend the subject as I knew why I wanted to and was going to study to become a religious educator. However as I found myself trying to explain, it was challenging to try and find the words to define what the subject is and what it entails. It was difficult to do this without sounding like a “holy joe” as the expression goes. It made me realise that I needed to sit down and think in detail the meaning of religious education and also what I think the future of religious education in Ireland looks like? Will religious education still be a subject in Ireland in years to...
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...Acceptance of Evolution and Support for Teaching Creationism in Public Schools: The Conditional Impact of Educational Attainment JOSEPH O. BAKER Department of Sociology and Anthropology East Tennessee State University Public acceptance of evolution remains low in the United States relative to other Western countries. Although advocates for the scientific community often highlight the need for improved education to change public opinion, analyses of data from a national sample of American adults indicate that the effects of educational attainment on attitudes toward evolution and creationism are uneven and contingent upon religious identity. Consequently, higher education will only shift public attitudes toward evolution and away from support for teaching creationism in public schools for those who take non-“literalist” interpretive stances on the Bible, or to the extent that it leads to fewer people with literalist religious identities. Keywords: evolution, creationism, religious identity, education, science and religion, public policy. INTRODUCTION Acceptance of evolution and support for creationism has been publicly debated since the initial diffusion of Darwin’s theory about the origin of species, particularly in the United States (Numbers 1998, 2006). From before the infamous Scopes Trial (see Larson 1997) to the present, many Americans have resisted ideas about evolution, leading to a relatively low global ranking on public acceptance of the theory...
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... |child’s cognitive development. Grammar Stage-What’s in their world | | |(Pre-K-2nd or 3rd); Dialectic Stage-Tell me more. Tell me why. How | | |does it work? Compare/contrast; Connect real things to abstract. (2nd | | |or 3rd-5th or 6th); Rhetoric Stage- What does it mean to me? What do I| | |do with this info? How am I going to use it? Logic/Debate. ( Middle | | |school to Adult) | |Curriculum as technology |This includes internet and software based programs. The internet | | |provides multi-sensory, interactive learning via multi-media learning.| | |Software provides the same in a more controlled environment (minus the| | |interaction) | |Curriculum as self-actualization or...
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...renowned religions spread out around the Eastern side of the world. It is a religion with over 300 million followers worldwide and originated 2500 years ago, with its leader Siddhartha Gautama. (buddhaguide) The word ‘Buddhism’ comes from the word ‘Buddhi’ which means ‘to awaken’, which is an accurate summary of the entire fundamental of the religion. Buddhism, as a religion, involves living a certain lifestyle where the believers are asked to be mindful of their actions and words, live morally and have wisdom. The religion targets the human mind and penetrates through the mind, body and soul through meditative rituals and practices, making it...
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...To indoctrinate is to teach or to instruct in a particularly set manner which should not be altered. Indoctrination is the act of brain-washing a learner so that he/she can only think in a particular way, especially in matters of religion. This happens especially when followers of a particular religion/denomination feel threatened by other groups/religions/denominations. In this case, members feel there is no other doctrine better than theirs and they will fight “tooth and nail” to safe-guard their doctrine. Indoctrination “refers to teaching aimed at making the learner believe in what they have learned in such a way that nothing, not even good counter reasons, can make them change their minds about what they learned” (Simuchimba 2008: 79). Philosophy is the seeing/viewing or understanding of life with its different aspects in an individual’s way or sometimes there could be a group of people viewing things the same way or rather they agree with each other’s ideas. Philosophy of Education then is the way an individual values education, especially formal education. Msango et al in (Tembo 2000: 33) define Philosophy of Education as: A critical and systematic intellectual endeavour to see education as a whole and as an integral part of men’s culture .... any philosophy dealing with or applied to the process of public or private education and used as a basis for the general determination, interpretation and evaluation of educational problems having to do with objectives, practices...
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...3 RUNNING HEAD: INTELLIGENT DESIGN Intelligent Design Paper James L. Jones CRJ 311 Forensics Mrs. Rebecca Nieman Nov 17, 2012 Good evening everyone. My name is Mr. James Jones the superintendent of the El Paso County school district and the topic that I will be discussing in today’s speech is the concern of thought of being intelligent design into the school system. The intelligent design movement is a neo-creationist religious campaign for broad social, academic and political change to promote and support the idea of intelligent design, which asserts that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not a possibly undirected process such as natural selection. Its chief activities are a campaign to promote public awareness of this concept, the lobbying of policymakers to include its teaching in high school science classes, and legal action, either to defend such teaching or to remove barriers otherwise preventing it. The movement arose out of the previous Christian fundamentalist and evangelistic creation science movement in the United States, and is driven by a small group of proponents. The overall goal of the intelligent design movement is to overthrow materialism and atheism. Its proponents believe that society has suffered devastating cultural consequences from adopting materialism and that science is the cause of the decay into materialism because it seeks only natural explanations, and is therefore atheistic...
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...The Approaches Of Religious & Educational Institutions Utilizing The Conflict & Functional Methods Chanta Jackson Elizabethtown Community & Technical College As an American, in this thriving yet diverse society earlier on in education we are taught to define ourselves scholastically through high achieving grades, test scores, and athletic abilities. Individualism is soon expressed exposing the inner most parts of self, and we are then defined by those achievements. For example, athletic team activities are shifted more toward the leader bringing the team home for a win. Instead of applauding the collaborative efforts exerted during the game, the focus shifts on the individual who scored the most points. Left unsaid, winning becomes a fixation to our mentalities associated with accolades. Competition is pumped through our veins, and soon sears our conscience with a hot iron! In our culture, similar to the Japanese we embrace both theories of conflictive and functionalism theories. Durkheim (father founder of the functionalist theory) primary focus was on “moral education” meaning to implement a more permanent social structure by joining together people from diverse backgrounds. Furthermore, he states that the role of education is one of identifying socialization into today’s society. The Functionalist theory focuses on education as a whole and also implements the basic skills essentials for education such as social placement, networking and sorting. The conflict theory...
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...Intelligent Design is religion disguised as science, and as such, should not be taught in our public schools. Introduction The town of Dover, PA looks like any other small towns in central Pennsylvania, but in October 2004 when the local school board proposed a slight alteration to the high school biology curriculum a fault line erupted between those who think of intelligent design as science and something that should be taught alongside evolution, and those who think of it as religion disguised as science. As a science teacher myself, I was very interested in this subject, and how school districts nationwide are pushing initiatives recently to put intelligent design in their biology classes. These school districts are struggling with the dilemma of whether or not to teach creationism as an alternative view to evolution theory. If, as many scientific creationists believe, God's message is important in defining the content, aims, and conditions of educational practice, then creationism does belong in the classroom. However, those who propose that creationism is not science, and that "creation science" is a misnomer, are opposed to the intervention of religion into the public educational program; after all, public educational programs should be separate from concerns of the church. The Scientific...
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...Philosophy and Religion China’s history has been full of richness of culture, mainly due to how they progressed with philosophy and religion. Since the beginning of the Chinese’s civilization philosophy and religion has been at the forefront of Chinese culture. From the ancient oracle bones and bronze inscriptions to the development of different schools of thought, the Chinese have always been adept for the time period in philosophy and religion. And over the course of their history they have combined the two in a manner that suits their needs, through this evolution and combination of the two they have become a strong nation. Oracle bones were the corner stone of the early Chinese dynasties such as the Shang from around 1200-1050 B.C (Shang pg. 1). In one of the articles it attempts to explain the use of these bones by saying that the kings of the Shang Dynasty would “attempt to communicate with the spiritual forces that ruled their world by reading the stress cracks in cattle bones…” (Shang 1). These kings would apply a heated poker to the bones which would produce cracks that they would analyze based on the direction and deepness of the crack. Recently these bones and the records of the king’s analyzation were uncovered. An estimated 150,000 oracle bones were found, and have references to the god of the Shang, Di (Shang pg. 1). This type of analysis by the kings is an early form of a religion, and the building blocks for later philosophy and schools of thought in China’s...
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...shaping our entire life in the society. TYPES OF AGENTS OF SOCIALIZATION They are mainly five agents of socialization in the society which affects us on a daily basis, these agents of socialization are; The Family The Religion The School The peer group The Mass media THE FAMILY: The Family is the first group to have a great influence in our lives; they are the first form of socialization experience. The family are people we share the same genetics with in nature, they are people that can be said as the closest relations to us, they are grouped into two categories; Members of the immediate family and members of the extended family. The members of the immediate family consist of the spouse (husband/wife), parent, brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters. While members of the extended family consist of the grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, nephew and niece. In general the family members are people that can share personal experiences and information to one and another, which on normal condition wouldn’t share with others outside the family membership. They are believed to have the greatest impact on socialization process, It is from the family, we get to get to know who we are, fit into the society; learn languages, beliefs, religion and general culture. The family is the root of all socialization; it gives us the basic understanding as we grow up. The wealth and social status of the family also determines the life, job opportunity and...
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...Not Preach Teaching the Bible in public high schools is a very controversial topic. An article in TIME magazine written by David Van Biema, called “The Case for Teaching The Bible”, does a great job presenting the pros and cons of teaching the Bible. Some might argue that teaching the Bible promotes certain faiths. Although, there will be some teachers who share their opinions, the Bible should be taught in public high schools because it is extremely prominent in pop culture and is in fact constitutional, as long as the teachers are trained to teach, not preach. Because the Bible and its stories are commonly utilized in pop culture, the Bible should be taught in public high schools throughout America. According to Van Biema,...
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