To meet the academic and social-emotional needs of recently-arrived immigrant youth, Newcomer high schools have been created in many urban areas. In New York City, these schools are often comprised mostly of Spanish-speaking students (ranging from 80-95%) with a small, yet diver…
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This dissertation is a qualitative exploration of the perspectives of Ethiopian immigrants to the United States who have educational experience in both cultures. By interviewing five respondents and asking them to reflect on the role that their education played in their accultur…
Significant health care disparities exist in the United States. Nurses can play an important role eliminating these disparities. International immersion experiences for undergraduate nursing students may provide long-lasting enhancements in cultural competency and improvements i…
Living in an Islamophobic context where 49 percent of Americans polled in a 2010 ABC News Poll held an unfavorable view of Islam (Ali, Clifton, Duss, Fang, Keyes, & Shakir, 2011), visible American Muslims, particularly hijabi women and girls, experience a host of challenges. Rec…
This study examines the relationship between Islamic education and multicultural education. This process of educational development is described by prominent Islamic scholars, such as Mulana Muhammmad Ali and multicultural scholars such as Jawaza Kunjufu. An argument is made tha…
This study examined the schooling experiences and perceptions of resettled sub-Saharan African middle school refugee students in a metropolitan area of the United States Southwest. The research questions underpinning this study included: What are the schooling experiences and pe…
Prosocial behavior is discussed in its broadest sense with a focus upon philanthropy. Is there a general, universal propensity towards philanthropy or do demographic and other factors contribute to differences? In addition to a cross-cultural study of philanthropic attitudes, in…
This qualitative study provides information on the experiences and perceptions of women who immigrated to the U.S. after the 1979 Iran Islamic Revolution to pursue higher education and professional careers. The study offers new understanding of strategies used to overcome obstac…
This study looks at a growing trend in literature: memoirs written by women from Islamic countries. It will deal specifically with the cultural significance of these books in North American culture with special consideration of how the Muslim religion is depicted and therefore r…
This study was conducted in order to examine Iranian higher education and its links with the United States since 1960 and to obtain analytical and conceptual information about Iranian-American higher education relations during these twenty-six years. Educational Policy Studies m…
This qualitative study explores the underlying reasons of the decisions of U.S. educated Turkish professors to stay in the United States or return to Turkey. To collect data, interviews were conducted with a total of 20 U.S. educated faculty members, as 10 returned to Turkey whi…
During a time when most institutions of higher education are in search of underrepresented student participation, Georgia State University (GSU), a majority White institution, has observed a lack of involvement of White students in co-curricular activities. The purpose of the re…
This art-based expressive therapy study investigated opinions and feelings about cultures in the city of Jerusalem and the country of Israel at large. A coat, designed and sewn by the researcher, was covered with symbols that were identified with peoples who have been victims of…
The study examined the mediating role that acculturation (traditionalist and assimilationist) strategies played in the relationship between coping subscales (confrontive, escape-avoidance, and positive reappraisal) and psychological well-being subscales (environmental mastery an…
Children’s work in the street of developing countries has been accused of contributing to children’s low enrollment in formal schooling. In Indonesia, the government has been employing the Education for All policy in order to abolish children from working in the street. This dis…
This study took a cultural and sociolinguistic approach to examine the role of one-on- one tutoring in helping culturally diverse students, focusing on ten Farsi-speaking students. I discussed the influential role culture plays by looking at the importance of pragmatic competenc…
The Paiutes science education is influenced by their myths and legends. To the People, these are their truths, just like the Bible is to the Christians, the Torah is to the Jews and the Koran is to the Muslims. The more connected the Native person is to his/her traditional belie…
According to Passel and Cohn (2008), in 2008, there were 1.5 million undocumented children under the age of 18 living in the United States. California housed 22% of the nation's total undocumented population (Passel & Cohn, 2008). Each year approximately 65,000 undocumented stud…
There is little research available on Asian-Indians' attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help. Further, little research is available that addresses theoretical approaches that may be effective in reducing the stigma associated with psychological help in working w…