This study focused on the development of the Project DELSILIFE which is an acronym for the: "Development of a Coordinated Educational Intervention System for Improving the Quality of Life of the Rural Poor through Self-Reliance". The project was undertaken by the Southeast Asian…
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Inter-group community among young adults in Israel was explored through the discourse of close friends, Palestinian Israeli Arabs and Israeli Jews living in the Haifa region. Implications were sought for the Israeli educational system and society. The transcribed texts of in-dep…
This study was conducted in order to examine Iranian higher education and its links with the United States since 1960 and to obtain analytical and conceptual information about Iranian-American higher education relations during these twenty-six years. Educational Policy Studies m…
Heritage language (HL) instruction is one of the many models of bilingual programs implemented in U.S. schools. The aim of the HL program is to develop proficiency in a HL, usually, the language of the students' parents or religious tradition. This study was conducted to explore…
The purpose of this study is to describe the relationship between acculturation and Arabic language skills in Arab American youth in a community center setting. Seventy Arabic speaking students at the age of 13 through 17 in a Midwestern state were selected on a non-random sampl…
The purpose of this study was to develop an index of acculturation which could then be used to examine communication patterns in the acculturation process for Nigerian foreign students. Communication and acculturation are viewed as interdependent processes that cannot be divorce…
The purpose of this study was to analyze the social demand for community skills centers in rural Anambra State in terms of the extent to which clients and advocates (in particular, trainees, program planners, and rural residents) perceived the centers as an effective means of pr…
This study is the first comprehensive follow-up on Geert Hofstede's seminal work on Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values (1980). Its main purpose was to test the construct validity of Hofstede's 4-D Model. Its secondary aim was to explore stat…
Öğrencilere yazma becerisini daha kolay edindirebilmek ve kalıcı olmasını sağlayabilmek için onlara etkili öğrenme ortamı sağlayan bireysel öğrenme yöntemlerini gözlemlemek büyük bir önem taşımaktadır. Fransızcada sözcük dizimi, kelime bilgisi, yazılı ve sözlü dildeki farklılıkl…
The purpose of this study was to examine the culture learning process in study abroad. More specifically, this study attempted to understand the preparation that on-site staff have had for their role as intercultural educators, how they conceptualize and facilitate culture learn…
In Lebanon, the symbolic value of language has held prominence in religious and secular nationalist discourses and ideological struggles over the last century, as bilingual educational practices spread through missionary and colonial institutions. This dissertation examines the …
This dissertation is a historical, comparative examination of resistance and agency by Jewish and African American activists seeking redress in the form of redistribution of resources and early multiculturalist efforts demanding recognition of group identities within New York Ci…
There is no doubt that culture represents a vital component of the foreign language curriculum. Over the past decades, foreign language textbooks, as a key element in the teaching and learning process, covered culture differently qualitatively and quantitatively, and the Arabic …
Much research relating to bilingual education in the early years has focused on how young children are learning a new language, viewed from a monolingual paradigm of language use (Tabors 1997, Clarke 1999, Cummins 2001, Drury 2007, Genesee 2008). Recent sociocultural research on…
Children’s multilingual education is a topic of vital concern among immigrant parents, and this topic has been addressed in different cultural contexts, such as European and North American. However, there is limited research focusing on the subject among Chinese immigrants in Ca…
This case study examined the factors that promote or inhibit Dual Language programs, so we are able to understand the optimum environments for maximizing academic success for Dual Language learners. Bilingual education programs that support multilingual education teach students …
Because of the increase in minority immigrant student enrolment in the K-12 and consequently the higher educational system, there is a corresponding need to ensure that their specific needs are taken care of. Postsecondary multicultural developmental education can be part of the…
This study focuses on the impact of attending an ethnoreligious school on different dimensions of social integration. Data are measures of students of fourth and fifth secondary registered in French speaking ethnoreligious schools in the province of Quebec. This study is also se…
This study investigated the impact of participation in the Seeds of Peace International Summer Camp program on attitudes toward perceived enemies and in-group members. Specifically, individuals' social dominance orientation, stereotype attributions, closeness to own and out-grou…