Religious Education as a Part of General Education

Fundamentalism as a Challenge for Religious Education

Empirical research on fundamentalist biographies—presented are three case studies and a summary of research results—demonstrate the complex biographical-motivational factors for fundamentalist turns, but also a transformational potential. Explaining fundamentalist conversion and deconversion within a theoretical framework of fundamentalism as “modern anti-modernism” and as “dislocation of relig...

Feasibility Study on Family Laws Education as a General Lesson in Higher Education

Introduction: The family is the social institution, which is the first foundation of collective life. Considering the importance of the family and its legal system, the discussion of the family rights and its education can prevent the damage caused by the lack of familiarity with it; So, the purpose of this study was to feasibility study of family laws education in higher education from the vie...

Robotics as a Component of a General Education Course

We describe a robotics assignment for a General Education course. This assignment is part of an Introduction to Computer Technology course designed for the General Education requirements at The College of Staten Island. The goal for this assignment was to acquaint students with basic robotics while satisfying the course goals of algorithmic thinking, limitations of computers, problem solving, a...

The Secular Benefits of Comparative Religious Education

Kara, finite state machines, and the case for programming as part of general education

As a major evolutionary step in computer technology, users have come to rely on ready-made application software, rather than writing their own programs. If computer users no longer program, does it follow that the art of programming should only be taught to computing professionals? We argue the case for programming as a component of general education. Not because of any direct utilitarian benef...