The Muslim community in Nashville established an Islamic school in 1996. The current school can accommodate students from kindergarten to sixth grade. The Kurds, numbering more than 10,000, started their own quest to establish a full-time Islamic school in 2006. Reviewing the li…
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To improve K-12 students' images of the nature of science (NOS) through science textbooks, two issues must be addressed: (a) the level of NOS that ought to be included in science textbooks and (b) the treatment of this level in those textbooks. Science educators achieved a conse…
This thesis is a historical review of Indonesia's curriculum and practice as seen through the works of Kartini (1878-1904) and Ki Hadjar Dewantara (1889-1959), whose ideas colored and influenced the development of Indonesia's educational system. Although Kartini and Ki Hadjar ar…
This inquiry is a comparison of the historical content of the Vietnam War in the Vietnamese and the California high school history textbooks. Focusing on the selective images and the textual content with regard to the Vietnam Way from 1954-1975 in both textbooks in both countrie…
This thesis documents a quasi-comparative study of the educational systems of Japan, England, and Iran from three perspectives: how is the curriculum formed and controlled; what is the structure of schools and the curriculum; and what is the structure of teacher education. I use…
Philosophers and others have debated for centuries about the concept of "rights" - what they are, where they came from, how they evolved, on what authority they proceed, and in what formulations. Because rights express values and are not simply rules governing an immutable statu…
The purpose of this study was to examine the current availability of Arabic young adult literature trade books and to systematically analyze Arabic young adult literature trade books in terms of their cultural authenticity. By analyzing the contents of the trade books through th…
Much of the current debate surrounding the integration of Muslims into Western countries is fueled by the belief that Islamic values are incompatible with those of the liberal democratic West. One area that could prove especially challenging for integration is education, as the …
This analysis addresses the subject of nahda , or renaissance, in Jordanian history, civics, religion, and literature textbooks from the 1970s to 2009. "Nahda " is a keyword in the textbooks signifying both the historical period of Arab modernist thought and nationalism in the l…
"The flipped classroom method, particularly when used with digital video, has recently attracted many supporters within the education field ... [This book] provides a comprehensive examination of the latest strategies for incorporating the flipped classroom technique into Englis…