This study sought to facilitate the incorporation of Standards 8 and 9 of the National Standards for Music Education into the high school choral classroom. It was intended to remedy the problem that such Standards are frequently neglected in music performance classes. As such, i…
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The purpose of this study was to identify the most salient factors in facilitating the high school graduation of a group of immigrants of Serbian descent who came to the United States at secondary school age. The participants of the study were 10 recent graduates from a Midweste…
This study took place in three high schools in rural Northern Pakistan. The participants comprised four experienced high school teachers, three men and one woman. Using predetermined criteria, I had identified them as “improvement-oriented teachers” (IOTs), more ready and determ…
The present study aims to elucidate the determinant factors that affect environmental attitudes (EA) of senior high school students in Turkey and the origins of these EAs. Over nine hundred students from different school types, neighborhoods, geographical regions, social-economi…
Iran, known as Persia for thousands of years, has an extremely long, complex, and sophisticated history. Understanding the history of Iran from a global education perspective is critical to the understanding of the world and our interconnections, particularly in relation to curr…
This dissertation research examined schooling and youth programming experiences of participants in the Muslim Interscholastic Tournament (MIST), a youth program specific to Muslims. Data from interviews, MIST documents, and participant observations were analyzed using grounded t…
This study aimed to establish better understanding of Muslim students' religious needs and challenges in public schools. Through interviewing Muslim students who attend a public high school in the Midwest, their parents, and a Muslim religious leader, the researcher was able to …
Arab American Muslims are one of the most misunderstood ethnic and religious groups in the United States. To many Americans, Arabs and Islam seem alien and shrouded in mystery. As a relatively new immigrant group, the education and social adjustments of Arab American Muslims has…
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 is an area in the North Eastern Province where the government has invested little or nothing in terms of infrastructure. This area was closed to the rest of Kenya in the early 1960's and any one entering had to have "special permission." After a secessionist movement in 196…
Since their conceptualizations by Bums (1978), transactional and transformational leadership have been extensively researched in adult contexts. However, there has been very little research on these theories in adolescent contexts. van Linden and Fertman (1998) suggested that ma…
The United States evolved to become a mosaic of communities, the mainstream American and the minorities. These minorities live by the cultural preferences of both communities. The American Muslims are no exception. Not only do they attempt to live by the standards of both Americ…
This dissertation examines the critical issues of gendered citizenship, religious identity and educated status through the lives of young women in Bawadi al Naseem, a city in Jordan, and the day-to-day life of the al-Khatwa Secondary School for Girls. It argues that schools are …
"Elusive Culture is an ethnographic study of youth engaged in a passionate quest for identity in global times. It explores questions of identity and culture at a Toronto high school, a space wherein teachers and students alike shift and slide in relation to the policies and prac…