A collective case study of multicultural small-group discipleship in selected Southern Baptist churches was conducted to determine distinctive characteristics and beneficial practices that could be useful in other Southern Baptist churches. The study participants represent a str…
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The purpose of this thesis is to research and compile the five major religions in the United States in order to provide hospice music therapists with informative material on how the philosophies of those religions may affect a patient and family’s quality of care at end-of-life.…
The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of Arab American parents in a Michigan high school on multicultural education in the Detroit Metropolitan area. Arab American parents were both foreign-born and born in the United States with students in 9th, 10 th, 11th, and …
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…
One of the most important goals of American educational institutions over the past 47 years has been the desegregation of pubic schools. This goal reflected the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated schools are inherently unequal and deny segreg…
As a result of late 20th-century immigration patterns, workplace change and labor practices, a fast-paced, American hospitality/service concessionaire at a large, Midwestern, international airport found itself staffed predominantly by immigrants and refugees (primarily Ethiopian…
The faces of students in schools across America are and will continue to become more racially and ethnically diverse. (Banks, 2001; Neuharth-Pritchett, Reiff, & Pearson, 2001; Sleeter, 2001). This change in the student body also extends to rural school districts as well. Therefo…
Kazakhstan Evangelical Christian Seminary (KECS) has been training leaders for the service of Christian churches since 1993. It has experienced some small ethnic conflicts during the course of its ministry that have made me consider ways of pacifying the school environment. In t…
The experience of being raised in the United States by immigrant parents involves many complex layers of value systems and life decisions. This dissertation traces theory on identity development, acculturation, and intercultural communication concepts, and examines how first gen…
African-American students have yet to attain levels of achievement comparable to those of European-American students. Cultural differences between teachers and students have been suggested as one factor contributing to the continuing educational disparities between the two racia…
This dissertation explores the life and work of a philosophy of education and multicultural education teacher, through the use of narrative inquiry. As a Palestinian/Lebanese Canadian researcher, teacher, mother, activist and writer, I present the journey of freeing myself from …
An increasing number of people in our world are growing up crossing national and cultural boundaries on a regular basis. This profoundly affects their perception of culture. Many of these individuals, whether they are American or not, depend on American international schools (AI…
American and German educational systems have both experienced an increase of ethnic groups in the classrooms; however, in both countries the increase in ethnic groups is not matched by increases in the numbers of minority teachers (NEA, 2005). Therefore, challenges such as inter…
Sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and psychologists have all studied multiculturalism from their disciplinary perspectives, which has led to more confusion than clarity about this construct. This study took an interdisciplinary approach and examined the meanin…
This study explores how the multicultural local churches of the Lutheran church, namely, the Basel Christian Church of Malaysia (BCCM), deals with the Malaysian multicultural environment. The BCCM was first started in Malaysia in 1882 with its local churches remaining purely Hak…
In this study, two tenured Canadian teacher educators were asked the question, "What are your personal and pedagogical experiences of engaging with the complexities of teaching anti-racist, multicultural education in your graduate courses?" The researcher is a Muslim woman, born…
This study examined undergraduate, non-music majors' familiarity with and preference for Arabic music as compared to other world music. Several factors were examined to assess their effect on music preference including familiarity, musical characteristics, and student characteri…
This work deals with the role of Islam as it relates to the social, political and economic structures and processes, and the particular problems of national unity and political stability which Nigeria has yet to achieve. Nigeria, the "Giant" of Africa, has been blessed with both…
The present project investigated the role of ethnicity, Asian American (AA) cultural immersion level, and examiner-examinee racial match on commonly-used neuropsychological and personality measures (Studies One and Two, respectively). As hypothesized, culturally-different respon…