This study examines the perceived value of present procedures planned for assessing institutional quality and the extent to which they address the needs of higher education stakeholders in the Sultanate of Oman for quality assurance through institutional accreditation. The liter…
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Matriculation to college life can often pose adjustment problems that require identification and help. This is especially true in societies where gender separation is the norm. This qualitative study explores the help-seeking process from the subjective and cultural perspective …
Foreign language learners come to the literature classroom possessing a native language and a culture that could be very different from the English language and its cultures. This could have profound effects on how these learners interact with and respond to the literature of th…
The principal aim of this thesis is to assess the performance of Imam Salim b.Rashid and the Imamate revival in Oman during the second decade of the 20th century. It presents biographical information about Imam Salim, with special reference to the military and political policies…
In the current study, which examines the relationship between schools' organizational climates and teachers' sense of efficacy, I developed a conceptual framework in which teachers' perceived collective efficacy (TPCE) was proposed to mediate the relationships between four dimen…
Oman is a country of mystery and was closed to the world until 1970, when His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Saeed assumed power. Its first priorities became education, healthcare, and overall modernization of the country. One of the results of modernization was a desire for the peop…
This dissertation is about a town in Southern Arabia and the ways that gendered sociality and infrastructural transformation meet and become mediated through peoples' understandings of local history and religious values. Focusing on the mundane social world of neighborhood women…
This dissertation explores the extent and the ways Omani Muslim women's identity is affected when writing in English as a second language. This study seeks to gain insight into the relationship between these women's current lives and views and writing in ESL. The participants we…