Multicultural education

This causal comparative study was designed to compare the mathematical performance of Grade 3 students in Provincial public and Islamic private schools in Ontario. Three hundred and fifty-eight third grade students' EQAO (Education Quality and Accountability Office) mathematics …

My dissertation project, "College Knowledge: The Experiences of Mexican Mothers and Educational Success in the Midwest", is grounded in the idea that Mexican parents (regardless of citizenship status) take part in a critical role in U.S. schooling today. While Mexican parents ho…

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between perceived discrimination and subsequent academic motivation of adolescent refugee girls who have been resettled in the United States. In the study, I addressed the following questions: (a) Do adolescent refugee gi…

University courses implementing multicultural pedagogy currently appear to be one solution to countering the long history of racism in education, but they are often not required as a part of the curriculum. Additionally, in higher educational institutions, students are not expec…

Research has shown that African American students are not doing well academically as white students. Varies studies show how African American students as well Latino/a student’s academic achievement increases when they work with literature and works involving their cultures and …

El presente trabajo de investigación se refiere a los factores que favorecen la aplicación del enfoque transversal de interculturalidad en la educación básica regular, abordando en particular el caso del Colegio Intercultural Sol y Luna. Dicha institución busca brindar una educa…

This project, an outgrowth of the researcher’s Study Abroad experience in the Republic of Turkey, assimilates the principles of ethnomusicology, musical scholarship spanning the Ottoman, Republican, and modern periods in Turkish history, and curriculum planning to present a unit…

This study uses a qualitative, case study approach to understand the reflections of North American missionaries in Asia regarding their training and equipping for cross-cultural missions. For this study, seventy-five long-term missionaries from over twenty-five sending organizat…

This dissertation is a qualitative testimonio study that documents the reflections and experiences of twenty Mexican/Latinx Chicago teachers through a Latino Critical Race (LatCrit) Studies in Education theoretical lens. These testimonios contribute to the ongoing documentation …

This dissertation was designed to examine how experiences, education, and professional development informed culturally responsive pedagogy and influenced teacher beliefs in their ability to guide students to success when employing culturally responsive teaching practices. The re…

Although much research exists on both historical considerations of Korean music and intercultural relations, little attention has been paid to the processes and possibilities of intercultural collaboration of jazz and traditional musicians. As a practice-based inquiry, the resea…

Full time Torah study in a yeshiva in Israel, once considered an exotic experience for a modern Orthodox high school graduate, is now a commonplace phenomenon in North American Jewish education. This study examined American modern Orthodox high school graduates before (N = 403) …

This is a study about access to literacy and one school's ongoing struggle to afford this right to all of its students. The Tel-Aviv School in Israel has reinvented itself over the past 12 years, ascending from an educational quagmire to achieving national recognition for excell…

This qualitative study explored, through a process of elicitation of awareness for teachability, the metacognitive strategies that fifth-grade elementary monolingual English-speaking students in a dual English and Hebrew language program are using in reading comprehension in the…

This study explores the linguistic landscape and sociolinguistic context of an expanding circle country, namely Mongolia. German, Korean, Japanese, and Turkish, in addition to English, Russian, and Chinese, are used by Mongolians to varying degrees, placing Mongolia in a unique …

This study investigated the reactions of American professors to the written prose of non-native speaking international students in their classes. The need for a clear understanding of the specific nature of the writing required in particular content areas has been recently stres…

This work on the development of Mongolian ethnicity is the culmination of my own personal experience growing up as a Mongol, as well as of my more recent anthropological field research in Inner Mongolia. This dissertation is based on two major theoretical constructs: the existen…

This study examined the question of whether there was a difference in the general school experiences of children who move to a new country with an entirely different culture and language and children who immigrate to a country with a language and culture that is similar to their…

This study begins by identifying the relations between American and Middle-Eastern Arab societies as characterized by conflict. It then identifies the potential positive impact that teacher exchange programs can have on improving these strained diplomatic relations. This is reco…

The need for classroom instruction and materials that reflect students who come from different cultural and linguistic background is important in a country with a multiethnic population. The purpose of this study is to investigate how student teachers respond to literary texts t…