Literature books that reflect the demographic diversity of this nation are missing from popular websites, bookshelves, libraries, and schools. Books that perpetuate social stereotypes, discrimination and racism continue to be used and sold around the nation. Children are not exp…
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Objective. The objective of this research is to examine whether blogs can foster political mobilization among minority populations, using the minority Indians in Malaysia as the context. In particular, this research studies the characteristics of blogs from a non-Western perspec…
HRQL is an important aspect of chronic illnesses such as diabetes and needs to be considered by healthcare providers. It is one of the most important outcomes of healthcare interventions, representing an integral public health goal in Healthy People 2000, 2010, and 2020. Arab Am…
Extending over an area of 3,149 square kilometers, Darjeeling district, located in sub-Himalayan northeast India, is the site of my research. Flanked by the international boundaries of Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Tibet (China), this region is politically sensitive to India an…
The statutory derivative action provisions in Alberta and Nigeria were significantly and substantially reformed, within the last thirty years. Similarly the directors duties, the modes of enforcing corporate rights, and the shareholders remedies were exhaustively overhauled. The…
How do different opportunity structures influence Russian minority responses, such as varied rates of exit (emigration) and varied degrees of voice (political mobilization), to post-Soviet challenges? What accounts for variation in type of Russian voice? Russian minority politic…
Minority peoples (defined as religious and ethnonationalist groups demanding some degree of self-determination) are often thought to pose a threat to social unity. If one conceives of states as held together by affective identity, then the existence of multiple peoples within a …
Educating a nation of ethnically, racially and linguistically diverse children is one of the many challenges facing teachers and teacher educators. In 1995, 35 percent of the students enrolled in public schools were multicultural 1 students of color (National Center for Educatio…
Over the past decade much has changed in the United States schools. The number of minority students in U.S. continues to increase. The number of ethnically diverse teachers is declining. By the year 2000, it estimated that minority students will compromise 33% of the school popu…
Lack of participation in the school by the minority parents is related to lack of support from the school to attract and to involve these parents. This ethnographic research studies the perceptions of seventeen English speaking, immigrant, minority parents regarding participatio…
This research examines the identity perception of Maronite adolescents in Israel as part of the Israeli Palestinian Arab Christian community. The research was carried out between the years 2009-2011, involving 25 Maronite adolescents ranging from ages 16 – 18 years. Views on ide…
The objective of the study is to validate the CAS Basic Battery for Arabic-speaking children, ages 5.0-7.11 years on a sample population of 49 (21 males, 28 females) Arabic-speaking, Palestinian students, and to cross-validate this with a matched sample of English-speaking, Amer…
Research suggests that military service advances social mobility for racial and ethnic minorities because of the less discriminatory environment and steady employment with generous benefits, especially GI Bill benefits for funding college education. Changes in the social and pol…
The purpose of this study was to focus an empirical investigation of the effects of the accelerated schools model on at-risk students in schools that have adopted the model, compared to schools not using the model. The study examined whether at-risk students in accelerated schoo…
This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …
Currently, there are around 120 million (2% of the world's population) people who are living outside their birth countries. Pull factors in developed countries (wages, freedom, land, and/or peace) continue to attract large numbers of individuals from poor countries. At the same …
In the following pages I try to present my interpretation of the enigma behind the successful co-existence between the two largest ethnic groups in Bulgaria---the Bulgarian majority and the Turkish minority---by offering a new theoretical rationalization of this atypical phenome…