The purpose of this study was to examine parent and teacher expectations for early childhood educational programs in Muscat, Oman. Questionnaires were distributed in three private schools; these schools differed from one another in terms of their socioeconomic (SES) levels. Pare…
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The purpose of this study was to explore the earliest influences on Lebanese professional women's Dreams (Levinson, 1978). A focus was placed on achieving a deeper understanding of the Dream's origins in childhood. There was an examination of how the Dream initially developed an…
Multicultural education, often seen as a late twentieth-century phenomenon, had its roots eighty years ago in efforts to teach tolerance to children. While nativist and racist trends revived after World War I, a counter-trend also emerged. Beginning in the mid-1920s, thousands o…
This thesis examines how Pakistani children in Southall, England, negotiate their ethnic and religious identity through play. The majority of the population (60,000) of Southall are "Asian"--the British term for people from the Indian subcontinent. Children here have little cont…
Historians agree that "childhood" is not an unchanging, natural phenomenon but is a social and cultural construct. This has been a much-debated topic in the history of Europe, particularly in France where scholars such as Philippe Ariès, founder of the field the history of child…
