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…
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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…
This study explores the educational experiences at home and in school in relation to the ethnic identity development of the Indonesian-Dutch, a biracial minority group that emerged from the colonial situation in the Dutch East-Indies. Comparisons were made across the three major…
There is an ever present and growing population of continental African immigrants in the United States. The recorded numbers of legal immigrants from Africa increased 58.9 percent by 1995 (INS 1996). African immigrants bring their own languages and often must learn English as a …
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 case study described certain characteristics of the American overseas school experience as perceived by Bahraini graduates of Bahrain School. Bahrain School, located on the island of Bahrain in the Arabian Gulf, is a kindergarten through grade twelve school, operated by the…
Mainstreaming bilingual children while providing them with in-class language support is a language policy which aims to provide for the needs of children in multicultural British schools. In classes where there are substantial numbers of pupils for whom English is not their firs…
International development organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the G8, and USAID have launched initiatives to provide developing nations with access to information technology. Education and training are major components of these initiatives. As these organiz…
Immigrant communities, particularly small ones, often face pressures to adjust their behavioral archetypes to a new context. This study examines this issue within the Christian Arab Canadian community in Edmonton. In order to conform to contemporary peers, teenagers and young ad…
This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…
The purpose of the present dissertation is to derive the criteria/dimensions underlying learners' second language (L2) oral ability scores across three tasks: an oral interview, a narration, and a read-aloud. A stimulus tape of 18 speech samples was presented to three native spe…
This study investigated the language loss factors that plagued two Mexican-American families and the language maintenance strategies that they used to preserve Spanish in their lives. Six subjects participated in the study. A representative of each family for each of three gener…
ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) community college students enrolled in a required writing course were introduced to contrastive rhetoric to assist them in making connections between their first languages (L1) and English to enhance their writing. Students wrote a …
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…
This dissertation compares two urban schools based on their ability to provide effective education to Hispanic students. Both schools were developed to fill specific needs for a fast-growing city at different periods in its history. One school is large and public with a history …
An increased awareness of cultural diversity by students, faculty, and administrators has been emphasized in American higher education in recent years. International education has played a major role in adding to the diversity of American college and university campuses by facil…