Technology has been at the center of heated debates in educational settings driving schools to compete for the best technological equipments. However, in Lebanon there is a lag in technology integration matching twenty first century advances. Several barriers related to teacher …
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The needs of citizens for the twenty-first century have led educational institutions to re-examine their instructional strategies and methodologies. In an attempt to meet the demands of this ever-changing world, institutions initiate innovations in teaching strategies for effect…
This qualitative within-case study explored how technology is being integrated in a private school in Lahore. This study also attempted to shed light on the effect of different professional development opportunities on the technology integration practices of teachers in this sch…
This thesis provides an ethnography of the final year at an emerging middle-class private high school in the Northeast of Brazil. It draws on 15 months of fieldwork, including participant observation in the classroom wherein I followed students whilst they prepared for vestibula…
This study investigates language policy and language planning (LPP) in a small private school in an urban area of Puerto Rico. This school is considered an elite school where most of the students are bilingual (Spanish and English) and sometimes multilingual (Spanish, English, F…
Heritage language (HL) instruction is one of the many models of bilingual programs implemented in U.S. schools. The aim of the HL program is to develop proficiency in a HL, usually, the language of the students' parents or religious tradition. This study was conducted to explore…
In this thesis, I perform a comparative case study on the status of freedom of education and related parental rights in the era of the rights of the child. The aim of this case study is to provide insight into whether freedom of education and the right of the child to an educati…
Catholic schools across the country serve a valuable role in their communities as a source of academic strength, faith formation, and as a support system for families. The decline of Catholic school enrollment continues to be a source of challenge for families seeking a Catholic…
Cultural integrity in private Christian schools is of significant importance, because school culture is a dynamic structure that is influenced by all the forces that comprise it including values, beliefs, mission, administrators, faculty, staff, students, parents, facilities, an…
This study measures to what extent students of Al-Dharra Madressor (ADM), a private school in Kuwait, achieve American, Western "cultural proficiency," defined as the ability to understand and function in another culture. ADM operates as its own self-contained bilingual school s…
This inquiry examined how 4 Class 1 students in a private school in Pakistan learn about right and wrong. The study grew out of the lack of literature on young children's learning, and moral learning in particular, in a Pakistani context. Even Western studies of childhood educat…