The traditional way of education was the dominant educational system in Saudi Arabia until 1954, when the Ministry of Education was established and a new era of modern schooling has started. In the 1970s, while the modernization in education was slowly reaching its peak, the tra…
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The position of the Arabian Peninsula in the past as a center for trade during the Ottoman Empire and now as the land for the yearly pilgrimage has contributed to the diversity of its population. The present study investigates the presence or lack of multicultural representation…
This study examined local stakeholders' involvement in the School-Based Curriculum Development (SBCD) policy implementation in five elementary schools in a city in the southeastern region of Indonesia. An interpretive qualitative case study design was applied. Participants in th…
In this study an interpretive learning framework that aims to measure learning on the classroom level is introduced. In order to develop and evaluate the value of the framework, a theoretical/empirical study is designed. The researcher attempted to illustrate how the proposed fr…
The present study was designed to measure differences in elementary school teachers' attitudes toward willingness to teach students with ADHD in their classrooms in Riyadh City in Saudi Arabia through a descriptive non-experimental quantitative research instrument. The study exa…
This study examined Malay Language elementary reading textbooks to determine whether or not these textbooks contain gender stereotypes, and to see how these textbooks reflected the changing role and status of Malaysian women. The content analysis was used as an analysis strategy…
This study has attempted to translate the rationale for the nongraded elementary school organization of Goodlad and Anderson into a possible organizational pattern for elementary education in Lebanon, K-6. A historical review of Lebanese elementary schooling and the changing obj…
To examine the effects of integration into mainstream classes of 14 second language learners (SLL) who had been isolated in English as a second language (ESL) skills centers, a time series of reading inventories were administered three times a year for two years. The SLLs were i…
Individualism and community are competing values in the late twentieth century. The dominance of individualism, which cherishes freedom and independence, is antithetical to the bonds and boundaries implicit in healthy community. The purpose of this study is to explore the ways i…
Primary school enrollment rates in Pakistan are far lower than in countries facing similar economic circumstances. The problem is particularly severe for girls in poor families and rural areas. To address this problem, the Balochistan Education Foundation with technical support …
The major purpose of this study was to describe the images of society and its members that Kuwaiti television programs for children impart, and to determine how certain social issues were treated in these programs. This study investigated the content of four children's programs,…
The education of young girls in Senegal is affected by low admission and completion rates. This study unveils some of the socio-economic factors relating to the schooling of females in rural Muslim areas; it focuses on Fouta Toro, Senegal. Despite certain measures which aimed at…
This study was an initial effort to examine the applicability of Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) procedures to measure reading in a language other than English, and more specifically, in Hebrew. Participants included 416 regular education students from grades 1–5 from 3 eleme…
Recent research asserts the importance of creating schools as learning communities. Proponents argue that small schools are more likely to foster community. However, school size research has yielded ambiguous findings about the relationship between size and student outcomes. The…
This dissertation presents three case studies of collaborative interaction in a third-grade dual-language classroom during writing instruction over the course of a school year. The study addresses the notion of developing student voice, and how instruction can be seated so that …
The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a multicomponent diagnostic test, the Arithmetic Word Problem Solving Ability (AWPSA) Test. The AWPSA test is to be used by sixth-grade teachers in Malaysia to identify students needing remediation in solving arithmetic word …
Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…
This is a study in education administrative structure. It is an investigation of a modern upazila parishad (county council) and deals with modernization of primary school administration in the traditional culture of Bangladesh in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureaucracy. T…
This study is an attempt to identify predictive factors in parental choice between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jewish Day Schools. More than 650 families from four communities representing eight schools responded to a questionnaire which addressed original motivations for choosing…