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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Learning "about" and "from" Religion: Phenomenography, the Variation Theory of Learning and Religious Education in Finland and the UK
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Hella, Elina; Wright, Andrew – British Journal of Religious Education, 2009
The paper addresses the relationship between the twin tasks of enabling pupils both to learn about and learn from religion in the state education systems of Finland and the UK. Recognising that the relationship between these two tasks is the subject of considerable confusion, it is argued that the most appropriate way to view the connection is…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Phenomenology
Variation in Finnish Students' Understanding of Lutheranism and Its Implications for Religious Education: A Phenomenographic Study
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Hella, Elina – British Journal of Religious Education, 2008
This article contains the results of how a selected group of Finnish upper secondary students understand Lutheranism. The data consisted of 63 students' responses to a writing task together with complementary interviews of 11 students. The outcomes of phenomenographic analysis of variation in the students' understanding of Lutheranism are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Qualitative Research, Individual Differences