Institutions of Higher Education invest considerable resources to provide students with leadership experiences through extracurricular activities, especially in community service and spiritual programming. The inter-relationship among these variables (socially responsible leader…
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Over the past five decades, educators have been working to develop authentic Ethnic Studies courses that can be implemented in both higher education and K-12 schools. Ethnic Studies has been documented to be effective in growth in several metrics used to assess student "achievem…
This dissertation is a qualitative exploration designed to identify the notions that mathematics teachers have about how teaching practices impact student learning and development in addition to exploring where there might be room for growth or change in teaching practices. A pr…
While there has been ample evidence of a teacher shortage in public schools throughout the United States, one subject where there has been a continual retainment of educators has been in secondary social science. However, what is notable from the data is that social science teac…
Students attending high-needs schools experience greater pressure to increase their academic aptitude in math and English, often at the expense of quality instruction in other core subjects such as science, social science, and history. Multilingual learners require differentiate…
Native methodology in social science research encompasses an “agenda based on Indigenous epistemology” wherein reciprocal relationships between investigators and community members are essential (Kurtz, 2013, p. 222). However, Western scholars have often misrepresented Native per…
The purpose of this naturalistic inquiry study was to explore parents’ rationales for enrolling their children in a Classical Christian education (CCE) school accredited by the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS). The curriculum of CCE is unique in its biblical and…
Social studies education provides education researchers with a less common opportunity to discover multimodal instructional methods for disciplinary literacy. During a 12-week period in 2021, four social studies teachers with at least one history course in a large suburban Merce…
In the highly polarized American political climate, teachers are facing immense pressure from legislators, community members and administration that impacts their decisions regarding what and how to teach certain topics perceived as controversial. The purpose of this study was t…
Several independent African states promote teaching of a national culture as one culture and learning about ethnic cultures as separate and distinct aspects of other cultures of the nation. This is often articulated in development philosophies and political discourses that compl…
This paper examines the early influences on Turkish novelist Halide Edib (1884 - 1964), who is best remembered as a feminist writer. Although she was born at the end of the Ottoman era, Edib articulated the idea of the new, modern woman of Turkey through the female protagonists …
This study examines the perceptions and operational assumptions of university representatives with regard to the new higher education policy-]making in Kurdistan. It attempts to explore the development and implementation of the policy's first priority, the aim to bridge the gap …
This document reports the findings of a doctoral project regarding peace education in Lebanon. The emergence of Lebanon from a long civil war necessitates the existence of a peace program that will educate the new generations for a culture of peace. In this study, we tried to ex…
This study consisted of qualitative interviews with six Afghan political leaders who served as cabinet members in the Afghan government prior to the Soviet invasion. The study sought to report the political conditions in Afghanistan based on the direct experiences and the reflec…
Scholars of religion and education have claimed the U.S. suffers from religious illiteracy. This, combined with the rise of Islamophobia in the U.S. beckons a need for more research on religious education in Social Studies classrooms. Conceptually grounded in postcolonial theory…
Utilizing the dependency theory, this study analyzes and interprets the development of Iranian education since World War II within the context of Iran's dependent capitalist development. The study addresses the following general issues: (1) how dependent capitalist development w…
This dissertation examines diverse pedagogic approaches to teaching human rights and citizenship at the university level and how a particular academic community perceives of and engages with human rights and citizenship discourse. Based on fieldwork conducted at Sabanci Universi…