The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore Military Brats, who are, or who were multicultural leaders, and how they described their lived experiences and cultural immersions. Research questions: How do Military Brats describe their lived experiences: 1. whi…
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This study investigated the lived experiences of foreign English-language professors working at higher education institutions (HEI) in Japan. Rather than being a new development in Japanese higher education (HE), internationalization runs through the entire history of the modern…
This project addresses the development of the ReIGNITE Free Will Baptist Church in Virginia Beach. This dissertation seeks to address the question, “When planting a new multi-ethnic church. In what forms can culture and composition be completely reflected?” The absence of repres…
The Armenian people have an extensive history of culture, trauma, and resiliency. With over 1.4 million Armenians living in the United States (“Armenian Population in the World,” n.d.) and the greatest number of them living in Los Angeles (Zurcher, 2016), it is imperative that m…
It is no secret that America's history is one that reflects participation in chattel slavery in 1619. What is untold is the ways in which that part of America's past is reflected in curriculum. The question guiding this research is, "How is enslavement portrayed in 3rd through 5…
This dissertation presents a qualitative content analysis of the U.S. District Court-District of Arizona Transcripts of Proceedings of Bench Trial (González et al. v. Douglas et al., 2017), the constitutional challenge to Arizona’s anti-Mexican American Studies law A.R.S. §15-11…
This study on Black teachers and quality utilizes primary source documentation to investigate teacher recruitment and hiring policies in the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) between 1952 and 1964. Grounded in archival research methods and critical historical analysis, …
Racist laws and subsequent educational policies and practices have resulted in schools in the United States failing to teach Black students reading. Historically, a racial achievement gap in elementary reading has existed throughout the history of the United States and has persi…
This dissertation uses the Community of Practice (CoP) framework (Leve & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998; Wenger et al., 2002; Wenger, et al., 2015) to explore the learning and knowledge construction from the perspective of a community of former writing center tutors in México. It is…
Korea’s fascination with America or Miguk (“Beautiful Country” in Korean) is reflected in its international ranking as fourth in sending transnationals to the United States. Recently, there has been a trend toward younger (elementary-aged) transnational student visits. These stu…
This research utilized Crenshaw’s intersectionality theory and Cummins’ (1996) coercive and collaborative relations of power framework to explore the experiences of five students who self-identify with multiple cultural identities and who have graduated from the public-school sy…
The purpose of this study is to explore the mediating relations of specific Mexican cultural values (i.e., familism, respect, religion, and traditional gender roles) and examine their role on MMPI-2 Scales L, K, and 5 among an adult Mexican American, while also accounting for th…
The purpose of this project is to establish a class to increase the knowledge of Mercy Church’s cross-cultural understanding. Chapter 1 stipulates the establishment of the project, which includes the context, rationale, purpose, goals, definitions, limitations/delimitations, res…
While it is important to evaluate student-centered learning and outcomes, study abroad involves many more humans than just students. Many of the life-changing, perspective-broadening experiences marketed and delivered to study abroad participants depend on the participation of h…
The number of U.S. higher education institutions (HEIs) that offer study abroad increased 100% between 1996-2015 while student participation rates held steady at approximately 1% of all college students during the same period. Study abroad can place significant financial demand …
Segregation under law was the way of life in Jackson, Mississippi since the end of the Reconstruction Era. Although the United States Supreme Court declared segregation in education under law unconstitutional in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the publ…
The aim of this qualitative study was to scrutinize and explore the social challenges faced by newly arrived South Asian immigrants in their early transitioning period in the United States. This research study examined the factors that impede or facilitate the social process of …
Extensive research has been dedicated to documenting the long history of racial tension and discrimination of African Americans within the U.S. educational system. Much less is known about the strategies that have emerged from school districts and the African American families t…
African American males in the United States have been incarcerated at higher rates than any other race. This overrepresentation of Black men in the prison system has been a historical societal issue that is a direct result of a multitude of oppressive social systems. The purpose…