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Bradford Schools Linking Project Evaluation Report, 2005hot!
- 01.06.2006
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This ambitious project has been running for over three years and during that period has grown from a single pair of linked primary schools to 61 primary and 12 secondary schools. Thus, during the final evaluation year, 1,880 primary and approximately 200 secondary pupils participated in linking. The project aims to: provide opportunities for children (and their families) from different ethnic backgrounds, who would not normally meet, because they live and attend schools in different areas of the district, to work and play together; provide opportunities for children and adults to work with creative partners and to work in the District’s cultural venues, through the project’s emphasis on enhancing the curriculum through creativity; provide opportunities for adults who work with the children, to meet to share ideas and broaden perspectives. Although it is difficult to do justice to a complex piece of research, the following impacts were summarized: There was dramatic impact in that the project facilitated thousands of new relations between individual children, and between adults; in that, on average 2.6 new cross-cultural friendships per child resulted from linking; in that dramatic increases in confidence and trust resulted from the project. Further, there was significant impact, in increased reciprocity, in maintaining the links resulting from the project, and in children demonstrating curiosity about other people, and their values and points of view.
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British Humanist Association on the Golden Rulehot!
- 28.03.2006
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Takes a similar approach to the world's faiths in the 2002 document presented to the United Nations, but adds material from the British Humanist Tradition. Of interest not least because it equates the humanist position with tnat of other faiths.
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Communities of Faith helping against violence on womenhot!
- 12.03.2006
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Produced in the USA, this report argues that religious, spiritual and faith-based groups and organizations should become committed to action against the problem of violene against women and girls, and should promote teachings that support equality and respect for women and girls.
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Connect: Different Faiths / Shared Values for Young Peoplehot!
- 30.03.2006
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As a young person in 21st century Britain you belong to an increasingly diverse society where people of many cultures and faiths live side by side. This action guide is about making connections and friendships. It's about how it matters to build bridges of friendship and understanding between people of the different and distinct religions in this country today. Prepared by the Inter-Faith Network, 2004.
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Do Abrahamic Faiths Experience their Crises in the Fifteenth Century of their Existence?hot!
- 02.05.2006
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Jim Matthews, Community News Editor of the Leicester Mercury, writes: I was fascinated to hear the Very Rev Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark, on the Radio 4 programme Today the other morning talking about the John Mere Commemoration Sermon which he delivered last Tuesday. He said that in the 15th century of Judaism, Assyria and Egypt collapsed; in the 15th century of Christianity, there was the renaissance; and now, in the 15th century of Islam, there is an ‘extraordinary and radical reformation occurring within Islam’. In each case, he says, there was a major shake-up. Now there is the electronic revolution which, when considered with increased worldwide travel, suddenly all the old certainties are shaken up. He says that in all three religions this caused a return to fundamentalism with people ‘shouting louder about old certainties and discredited formulae instead of embracing change and finding it an adventure into new knowledge’. I was so intrigued, I e-mailed and asked for the text of the sermon and for permission to distribute it. The Dean yesterday very kindly e-mailed me this message: ‘I take the view that a sermon, once preached is a public matter and so it is available to anyone.’
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