The purpose of this study was to determine if Arabic male and female children perceived differential treatment by their parents. Arabic families, immigrant and first generation, have tried to maintain their culture, while living in a new country with a culture different from the…
The purpose of this study was to investigate acculturation of fourth grade Lebanese-Moslem students in a public elementary school in Southeastern Michigan and its relationship with family demographic variables and student achievement as measured by MEAP scores. Immigrants, encou…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the performance and solution strategies of Arabic-speaking bilingual second graders in the domain of addition and subtraction word problems. Furthermore, relations between children's performance in this domain and their proficiency in…
This study investigates how Muslim parents of pre-K and elementary public school children perceive their role in their children's education. Furthermore, the study identifies how Muslim parents describe their current parent involvement practices and the challenges they face when…
Textbooks are often considered as key elements in education. For many students, especially in developed countries, textbooks are their first and early exposure to books and to reading. The education policy in Jordan is trying to design a new curriculum for reading textbooks. Thi…
This study explores perceptions and divergent commitments to formal schooling and education among present-day elementary school children in Tanzania. The study examined mechanisms which operate in the context of Tanzania and lead elementary school children to either embrace or a…
This inquiry examined how 4 Class 1 students in a private school in Pakistan learn about right and wrong. The study grew out of the lack of literature on young children's learning, and moral learning in particular, in a Pakistani context. Even Western studies of childhood educat…
This study is based on 72 children's and young adult books that met the criteria of being about Muslims and published and circulated here in the U.S. They can be divided into the varied genres as 49 contemporary realistic fiction, 6 historical fiction, and 17 autobiographies, bi…
This study was conducted to find the teachers' attitudes and evaluations of children with and without kindergarten education in the Al-Kharj Governate of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. It was hypothesized that teachers would have favorable attitudes towards children with kindergar…
Cette thèse s'inscrit dans les préoccupations récentes du système scolaire marocain à l'égard de la qualité de l'éducation. Ces préoccupations consistent à considérer l'enseignement fondamental (le primaire) non seulement comme un lieu pour apprendre à lire, à écrire et à compte…
Character education includes morals, virtues, values, and ethics. Certain moral truths remain constant across civilizations, but the influence of the culture is a point of contention. It is this source of cultural influence on morals, virtues, values, and ethics that allows for …
This study explored the state of gifted education in Islamic schools in the United States, focusing on school organization and elementary school teachers' practices in planning and implementing instructional and curricular experiences for gifted students and average students. Th…
In 1996, learning disabilities (LD) was introduced as formal category of disability into Saudi Arabia educational system. This qualitative grounded theory study aimed at understanding how members of LD teams in 9 Saudi public elementary schools perceived and made sense of studen…