This dissertation explores the role of schools, families, and other-group contact on ethnic saliency and student attitudes towards outside groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) via statistical analysis. It was found that families, via familial example, have a statistically sign…
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National standards for learning foreign languages describe five area goals which are intertwined and interconnected in the K–12 learning environment; yet, absent from the literature are investigations on how K–12 teachers are able to implement and incorporate the practices, prod…
The purpose of this single case study was to investigate a work climate in a secondary school to determine if work-climate effects produced teacher generated creative outcomes. Teachers interacted within their school work-environment and formed perceptions about social and conte…
This qualitative case study examined how six students who attended the Academic Magnet High School constructed and made meaning of their Jewish identities. The students came from five families, with two sisters included in the sample. Data were obtained from interviews, observat…
This field study explores the effects of computer-mediated Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on a decision-making process within the men and women's division of a sexually segregated private high school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. At the time of the study, the school is develo…
In this study, conducted in the context of a Greek Cypriot high school, I examine how students understand the history of Cyprus, and how this understanding has influenced their political perspectives and their vision about the future of the island. During the last century Cyprus…
The purpose of this study was to explore the musical experiences of immigrant students in an American high school choral classroom. This study revealed some of the central issues and tensions that immigrant students face as they are acculturated into secondary school music progr…
Through qualitative interviews of twenty high school youth pastors, this study sought to explore what intergenerational ministry implementations are currently being used in American youth ministry. Fourteen were discovered; eight involved students serving within church (or on mi…
The end of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ushered in a new era in China. The Chinese government abandoned the previous assimilative ethnic policy and adopted a pluralist policy and a multicultural education policy to promote cultural diversity. However, if the plurali…
In recent years, there has been much written about the role of the principal and the many and varied styles of effectiveness. This study focuses on the perceptions of high school teachers in the New York City School system with regard to the perceived effectiveness of their prin…
Diversity in the American classroom has created an unavoidable debate about cultural identity and its impact on students' performance. The acculturation or assimilation level is crucial to the development of the self and determines the level of comfort of dealing with people fro…
This dissertation explores the manner in which the academic and social aspirations of recent immigrant Bangladeshi youth from a working class community, were reconfigured subsequent to family reunification with fathers already living in New York. The impetus for this research wa…
In this dissertation the researcher studied whether or not high school English teachers' and their students' perceptions about writing became more closely aligned after a semester of interaction. Four teachers, two males and two females, and their students were repeatedly survey…
This study evaluated the high school biology education in Yemen based on the Biological Sciences Curriculum Study (BSCS) Developing Biological Literacy (1993). The study used inductive analysis, a type of qualitative research, in which triangulation of six data sources was used …
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government initiated a youth exchange program to bring Muslim students to the U.S. for a school year. The Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program was created to help reduce tensions, and foster mutual under…
Although there is a growing body of research that describes factors affecting the cultural adaptations and academic engagement of a variety of immigrant groups such as Latinos, Asians and Caribbean immigrants, there is little research on African immigrant students' experiences i…
The use of hypermedia and Web-based materials in Jewish Education is a new and growing phenomenon. This dissertation is the outcome of an action research project conducted on the use of a Web site on the biblical story of Cain and Abel with Israeli high school students. The majo…