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Catholic education and students
Islamic education and Muslims
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Background information

International handbook of Catholic education [electronic resource] : challenges for school systems in the 21st century / edited by Gerald Grace and Joseph O'Keefe.
Dordrecht : Springer, c2007.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
The Praeger handbook of faith-based schools in the United States, K-12 / Thomas C. Hunt and James C. Carper, editors.
Santa Barbara, CA : Praeger, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC427 .P67 2012 V.1
The Routledge international companion to multicultural education / edited by James A. Banks.
New York : Routledge, 2009.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1099 .R685 2009
The Routledge international handbook of education, religion and values / edited by James Arthur and Terence Lovat.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC311 .R68 2013
Encyclopedia of Diversity in Education / Editor, James A. Banks, University of Washington.
Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Reference (non-circulating) » LC1099 .E38 2012 V.1
"The major aim of this encyclopedia is to describe the most important concepts, theories, research, policies, case studies, and programs at the pre-school through the postsecondary levels and their implications for educational reform. Diversity is defined broadly in this encyclopedia and includes race, ethnicity, social class, gender, sexual orientation (LGBT), religion, language, and exceptionality, which encompasses giftedness and disability." p. xlviii

New books

Issues in religion and education : whose religion? / edited by Lori G. Beaman, Leo Van Arragon.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC107 .I77 2015
Reason and faith at early Princeton : piety and the knowledge of God / Owen Anderson.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LD4593 .A53 2014
God, schools, and government funding : First Amendment conundrums / Laurence H. Winer, Nina J. Crimm.
Law Library (Crown) » Stacks 1 » KF4124 .W56 2015
Expressing post-secular citizenship : a madrasa, an ethic and a comprehensive doctrine / Zahraa McDonald.
Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang Ltd, c2015.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BP173.63 .M33 2015
Religion in the classroom : dilemmas for democratic education / Jennifer Hauver James ; with Simone Schweber, Robert Kunzman, Keith C. Barton, Kimberly Logan.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC107 .J36 2015
Spiritual discourse in the academy : a globalized indigenous perspective / edited by Njoki Nathani Wane, Francis Akena Adyanga, and Ahmed Ali Ilmi.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC383 .S678 2014
Reaching in, reaching out : faith schools, community engagement, and 21st-century skills for intercultural understanding / Marie Parker-Jenkins, Meli Glenn, and Jan Germen Janmaat.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC746 .G7 P37 2015
International perspectives on education, religion and law / edited by Charles J. Russo.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC107 .I58 2014
New perspectives in philosophy of education : ethics, politics and religion / edited by David Lewin, Alexandre Guilherme and Morgan White.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB14.7 .N488 2014
Critical perspectives on black education : spirituality, religion, and social justice / edited by Noelle Witherspoon Arnold (University of Missouri), Melanie Brooks (University of Idaho), Bruce Makoto Arnold (Louisiana State University).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2717 .C75 2014
Histoire de l'école laïque en France / Jean-Marie Gillig.
Paris : Harmattan, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC116 .F8 G55 2014
Spiritual experiences in early childhood education : four kindergartners, one classroom / Jennifer Mata.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1139.23 .M376 2015
Claiming our callings : toward a new understanding of vocation in the liberal arts / edited by Kaethe Schwehn, L. DeAne Lagerquist.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC1011 .C455 2014
What schools teach us about religious life / Daniel R. Heischman.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC428 .H45 2014
Ordinary theologies : religio-spirituality and the leadership of black female principals / Noelle Witherspoon Arnold.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB2831.93 .A76 2014
Redefining religious education : spirituality for human flourishing / edited by Scherto Gill and Garrett Thomson.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1027.2 .R45 2014
Les défis de l'intégration à l'école : recommandations relatives à l'expression religieuse dans les espaces publics de la République / Haut conseil à l'intégration.
[Paris] : Documentation française, [2011]
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC3747 .F8 F74 2011
Religion in secular education : what, in heaven's name, are we teaching our children? / by Cathy Byrne.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC107 .B97 2014
Catholic schools in the public interest : past, present, and future directions / edited by Patricia A. Bauch, O.P. (The University of Alabama).
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC501 .C34955 2014
Leadership in Africa : challenges for theological education / West African Association of Theological Institutions ; edited by Emiola Nihinlola, Thomas Oduro, Deji Ayegboyin.
Ibadan, Nigeria : West African Association of Theological Institutions, c2012.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC95 .N55 W47 2010
Yiʻudah shel universiṭah datit = The Role of a religious university / ʻorkhim, Yaʻaḳov ʻIram, Yehudah Fridlander, Shimʻon Oḥayon.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC321 .Y58 2013
Christian higher education : a global reconnaissance / edited by Joel Carpenter, Perry L. Glanzer, and Nicholas S. Lantinga.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC383 .C495 2014
The quest for meaning and wholeness : spiritual and religious connections in the lives of college faculty / Jennifer A. Lindholm ; foreword by Alexander and Helen Astin.
First edition.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LB1775 .L49 2014
Curriculum and the culture wars : debating the Bible's place in public schools / Melissa Deckman & Joseph Prud'homme, editors.
New York : Peter Lang, c2014.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC111 .C84 2014
For the civic good : the liberal case for teaching religion in the public schools / Walter Feinberg, Richard A. Layton.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC111 .F43 2014
La morale à l'école selon Ferdinand Buisson / Laurence Loeffel.
Paris : Tallandier, c2013.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC314 .F8 L64 2013
Civility, religious pluralism, and education / edited by Vincent F. Biondo III and Andrew Fiala.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BJ1533 .C9 C55 2014
Engaging culture, race and spirituality : new visions / edited by Cynthia B. Dillard and Chinwe L. Ezueh Okpalaoka.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC2781 .E58 2013
Global perspectives on spirituality and education / edited by Jacqueline Watson, Marian de Souza and Ann Trousdale.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BL42 .G66 2014
Educating in the divine image : gender issues in Orthodox Jewish day schools / Chaya Rosenfeld Gorsetman and Elana Maryles Sztokman.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC715 .G67 2013
Does religious education work? : a multi-dimensional investigation / James C. Conroy, David Lundie, Robert A. Davis, Vivienne Baumfield, L. Philip Barnes, Tony Gallagher, Kevin Lowden, Nicole Bourque and Karen Wenell.
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » LC410 .G7 C66 2013

Journals

International Journal of Jewish Education Research
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"An initiative of the School of Education and the Lookstein Center of Bar-Ilan University. IJJER aims to portray and explore Jewish education as a multifaceted, heuristic and dynamic phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary, geographical, cultural, religious and historical perspectives and contexts. IJJER aims to provide an interdisciplinary, international and multi-language platform where past and present forms and aspects of Jewish education are examined through research."
Journal of Jewish education.
New York : National Council for Jewish Education,
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks
Religion & education [electronic resource] : R & E.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Studies in Jewish education / the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Melton Centre for Jewish Education in the Diaspora.
Jerusalem : Magnes Press ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : distributed in the U.S.A. by Humanities Press, 1983-
Education Library (Cubberley) » Stacks » BM100 .S88 V.13 2008/2009

Databases

Education databases

ERIC [electronic resource] : the educational resources information center.
[Washington, DC : National Library of Education?, 199?-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Bibliographic database of educational resources including articles, reports, and curriculum.
Education full text [electronic resource].
[Bronx, N.Y.] : H.W. Wilson Co.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Indexes and abstracts articles of English-language periodicals and books on education from 1983 on. Abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. Full-text coverage begins in January 1996 and is available for over half the 600 journals indexed.
Education week American education news site of record [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : Editorial Projects in Education, Inc.
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
Teachers College record book reviews [electronic resource].
Birmingham, AL : Teachers College Record
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"Teachers College Record Book Reviews provides comprehensive reviews of the leading books in education and educational research by major scholars in these fields. "

Related Databases

ATLA religion database with ATLASerials [electronic resource].
[Evanston, Ill.] : American Theological Association, [Ipswich, Mass.] : EBSCO Information Services
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"The ATLA Religion Database is a comprehensive database designed to support religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research."
Index Islamicus [electronic resource].
Bethesda, MD : CSA, 2003-
Stanford University Libraries » Online resource » (no call number)
"The Index Islamicus database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world." "Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level."
Index to Jewish periodicals.
[Cleveland Heights, etc., Index to Jewish Periodicals, etc.]
Green Library » InfoCenter (non-circulating) » Z6367 .I5 V.23-25 1985-1987
"Index to Jewish Periodicals is the definitive index on Jewish history, activity and thought. This database provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 220 journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Index to Jewish Periodicals is intended for students of Jewish thought and others interested in contemporary Jewish and Middle Eastern affairs. Journal coverage dates back as far as 1988."