Since 1979, Saudi-Iranian relations have been tense due to their position as superior powers in the Middle East. Both countries have different values and perspectives in regards to diplomatic relations with the West. As a consequence of the new developments in Iran's foreign pol…
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This dissertation is an examination of some of the divergent forces influencing Islamic university student activists during a period of momentous societal transition. It is intended to provide a means for understanding the relationships between proponents of two overlapping soci…
In October 1992, the government of Ethiopia, backed by the IMF and the World Bank, implemented a structural adjustment and macroeconomic policy reform program. The objective of the program is to revitalize the economy by creating a market-oriented system. The dissertation invest…
The objective of this dissertation is to analyze the role of external agents in administrative reform of developing countries' bureaucracies given the complex political, environments characterizing intervention and implementation attempts. It conceptualizes a new model for conti…
This dissertation, an ethnographic and sociolinguistic case study of Israeli feminist practices, investigates the relationship between language use, language ideology, and the socio-cultural construction of gender and gender identity. Taking the definition of language use presen…
The Twin Cities Metropolitan Council continues to draw national attention as a unique form of regional government. Yet there have been few in-depth studies of the Council's history, current circumstances and future prospects; and no broad-based assessments have been done for mor…
Constructivist teaching has become a dominant theme in educational literature in response to the positivist model of education that is prevalent in schools. It is generally acknowledged that in order for K-12 education to become more constructivist there must be a qualitative ch…
This thesis is basically concerned with the status of the 'regional development processes' under the system of 'medium-term national socio-economic development planning'. The evaluation of the regional dimension of the sectoralised approach to elaboration of the national plan in…
This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…
In “Lucretia Mott: Theology is Reform's Foundation” I articulate the theology of Lucretia Coffin Mott, a nineteenth-century Quaker preacher who was one of the leaders in the abolitionist movement, and a founder of the woman's rights movement in the U.S. Although she has been stu…
This study first reviews the innovative pedagogy of Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) within the European social milieu and intellectual Zeitgeist in the first half of the twentieth century, but the main part of the study examines the way in which Korczak's pedagogy is implemented in a…
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…
This project’s central focus is the broken police mentality that was intensified with the death of Dr. King and the law and order election of President Richard Nixon in 1968. The projects aim is to get people’s feelings about the historical brokenness of the law enforcement comm…
After a series of reversals in its wars with European powers during the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was forced to reevaluate its military technology and training. The realization that the West had outstripped the Muslim East in scientific and technological advancement…
2 Kings 18:4 describes reform measures taken by Hezekiah of Judah: he removed the high places, smashed the pillars, cut down the Asherah, and broke the bronze serpent Nehushtan in pieces. This study addresses the question of whether this reform was a historical event, as well as…
The current educational reform movement in the United States calls for increased centralization and standardization of curriculum. Interestingly, there is a concurrent important international debate on a more decentralized system of education delivery. The successful incorporati…
The present study examines science education policies in three selected developed countries and compares them with science education policies in Lebanon in order to identify their potential reform policies and practices applicable to Lebanon. The selection of the three countries…
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the National Science Foundation-sponsored, constructivist-based course Higher Order Thinking Skills in Science for teachers of grades 5–16 in Arkansas in terms of its impact on post secondary teaching. The course was part of the Arkansas…
Standards for 21st century education as outlined by the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future require the theory, research, and practice of multicultural education. Without the clearly stated, direct, and fundamental support of multicultural education as a pedagog…