This phenomenological study explores the perspective of inclusionary practices of culturally relevant pedagogy in academic spaces and validation theory of Chicano/a students in the secondary high school in the Puente Project to understand how this program empowers students to ha…
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The problem under examination is the course success of High School students in Face-to Face and Blended classroom environments. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the participation and performances of Face-to-Face and Blended high school students in different class…
The lives of Somali born high school students are complicated by intersections with both race and religion. They often carry refugee histories of trauma and displacement that are further exacerbated during the resettlement process. Schools are struggling to make the kinds of acc…
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…
This qualitative case study examined how six students who attended the Academic Magnet High School constructed and made meaning of their Jewish identities. The students came from five families, with two sisters included in the sample. Data were obtained from interviews, observat…
In this study, conducted in the context of a Greek Cypriot high school, I examine how students understand the history of Cyprus, and how this understanding has influenced their political perspectives and their vision about the future of the island. During the last century Cyprus…
Many founding teachers of new schools are motivated by their desire to educate in unconventional ways. They tend to be idealistic and dedicated, and to devote themselves totally to the mission of pioneering their educational enterprise, especially in the early years. However, as…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of high school mathematics teachers in Jeddah toward using calculators in teaching mathematics, the teachers' training about using calculators in teaching mathematics, the teachers' actual use of calculators in teaching …
This study investigated the influence of teachers' characteristics and secondary science teacher preparation programs on new high school chemistry teachers' knowledge, beliefs, and performance. "New high school chemistry teacher" refers to any teacher who during their first thre…
The primary objective of this study is to investigate the opinions and perceptions of senior Saudi high school EFL students and teachers of the Buriydah region regarding reading difficulties and factors that influence reading English as a foreign language. To examine the reading…
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…
Diversity in the American classroom has created an unavoidable debate about cultural identity and its impact on students' performance. The acculturation or assimilation level is crucial to the development of the self and determines the level of comfort of dealing with people fro…
This dissertation explores the manner in which the academic and social aspirations of recent immigrant Bangladeshi youth from a working class community, were reconfigured subsequent to family reunification with fathers already living in New York. The impetus for this research wa…
This field study explores the effects of computer-mediated Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) on a decision-making process within the men and women's division of a sexually segregated private high school in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. At the time of the study, the school is develo…
Although there is a growing body of research that describes factors affecting the cultural adaptations and academic engagement of a variety of immigrant groups such as Latinos, Asians and Caribbean immigrants, there is little research on African immigrant students' experiences i…
This dissertation examines five high school world history textbooks for the presentation of women in four major world history themes: Ancient Greece, the Roman and Byzantine Empires, Ancient Egypt, and the Fertile Crescent and Mesopotamian Civilizations. The five textbooks chose…
This study sought to facilitate the incorporation of Standards 8 and 9 of the National Standards for Music Education into the high school choral classroom. It was intended to remedy the problem that such Standards are frequently neglected in music performance classes. As such, i…