Intrigued by the heterogeneous development of rural and urban China, persistent poverty in rural ethnic minority regions, and dilemmatic quality compulsory education provided for ethnic regions as a key to poverty alleviation, this dissertation sets out to examine the rural appr…
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The 2006 student movement, termed the Penguin Revolution for the black and white uniforms worn by high school students, and the 2011 student movement, called the Chilean Winter, a reference to the "Arab Spring," have captivated the attention of the media and scholars alike. Howe…
This autoethnographic study problematizes a fourth-year teacher's experiences at an alternative high school as she navigates a conflicting personal and professional identity. It seeks to trouble notions of curriculum, the teacher's role in developing and shaping that curriculum,…
This dissertation identifies the design, purpose, and reception of two volunteer aid organizations, and examines whether any similarities and differences may be attributed to the project sponsor's geo-political designation as part of the global North or global South. Various sch…
This study focuses on the concept of cultural awareness as a new education/language policy prescribed by the Lebanese New National Curriculum and pursued in school and classroom practice through the national English textbook, THEMES, intended for ESL/EFL secondary-age students. …
The focus of this study was the roles of subject leaders in enhancing the implementation of the Lebanese New Curriculum, the implementation that started before the public schools were equipped to reflect its spirit and without the proper recognition of subject leadership as a ro…
Nigeria inherited a colonial educational framework at independence from Britain on October 1st 1960. The systemic thrust of this education centered on the liberal arts modality and not the sciences. This system of education was formulated to serve the colonial interest which was…
Devolution of power, responsibilities, and resources from central to local governments has been the foundation of decentralization reforms in developing countries like Ethiopia. The most recent decentralization reforms in Ethiopia began in the early 2000s at the woreda (district…
Variations in educational policy outcomes have always been perceived as policy failures, and they are often associated with policymakers insensitivity to what is happening down at the grass roots level, and with implementers' inefficiency and non-compliance. Based on institution…
Since the introduction of Education for All (1990), governments have sought ways to educate all children to high levels of global preparedness. In order to achieve this goal, in many places around the globe there has been a drive to introduce cost-effective strategies such as pu…
In California, dual enrollment refers to any high school student who enrolls in two systems at the same time, most commonly a community college and a high school—this student is thus concurrently enrolled in both high school and college. Students may receive credit from both sys…
Numa sociedade em mudança, as instituições, como a Família e a Escola são sujeitos e objetos dessa mesma mudança. Ao integrar o sistema de ensino português e estando em contacto com a instituição familiar, a disciplina de Educação Moral e Religiosa Católica (EMRC) tem um papel r…
At what point will educational actors recognize the limitations and utilize the possibilities of policy implementation processes to actualize long overdue reform measures for students—particularly those from historically marginalized backgrounds? Previous literature has attended…
Research focused on educational language policy (ELP) within the United States has explored orientations, ideologies and outcomes for English Learners (ELs) (Wiley, 2002; Skutnabb-Kangas, 2000; Hornberger, 2005). This study seeks to intersect these variables in order to investig…
This dissertation examines the association between educational gender equality from one hand, and the Religious and Modernization Theories from the other hand, using fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010. The results indicate that less religious countries …
The objective of this study is to observe the effect of political socialization through education as a tool for state building in three case studies. A background into the topics of political socialization and civic education is made. Civic education theory is applied to the sta…