Defining Identity in a Multicultural Society: The Challenge to Religious Schools
This paper focuses on the meaning of school culture in the realization of the purposes of religious schools. Successful school leaders understand and utilize the mechanisms that embed culture within their organization. Multicultural society puts a challenge to this task. The paper states that the st...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2000
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| In: |
International journal of education and religion
Year: 2000, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 166-177 |
| Further subjects: | B
RELIGIOUS SCHOOL
school culture
multiculturalism
school leadership
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This paper focuses on the meaning of school culture in the realization of the purposes of religious schools. Successful school leaders understand and utilize the mechanisms that embed culture within their organization. Multicultural society puts a challenge to this task. The paper states that the state of the art of school leadership has not yet found a way to maintain cultural integrity while having an open-door policy. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0623 |
| Contains: | In: International journal of education and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1570-0623-90000007 |