This study investigates the political sources of change in the regulatory authority for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives that were brought about by the global financial crisis of 2008. OTC contracts have grown in popularity since the 1980s as firms in advanced market economies…
"72" Result
Sort By:
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of school-level factors (physical resources, teachers' and schools' characteristics) and system-level factors (delegation of financial authority to public primary schools through Parent Teacher Councils (PTCs)) on two education…
The purpose of this study was to explore primary grade teachers' stages of concern and their implementation of an educational reform initiative called Integrated Thematic Instruction (ITI) in Indonesia. The Indonesian minister of education mandated primary grade teachers to impl…
Representing the Unpresentable attempts to show that late Qajar Iran was a furiously turbulent era, with the introduction of modern technology, and new ways of imagining the state and religion. Iran's sense of its national identity was also in turmoil. This turbulence articulate…
Over the past thirty years, American taxpayers have seen multiple Department of Defense (DoD) procurement scandals brought to light. Of these historic scandals, some of the most egregious examples include: the spare parts scandal that emerged in the early to mid-1980s, which int…
This dissertation is a study of the New Order (Nizam-i Cedid ) army and the opposition it triggered during the reign of Selim III (1789-1807). It aims to present an alternative perspective on the Ottoman military reform and its implications for the course of the imperial transfo…
Kazakhstan's higher education system is based on the Soviet governance structure, limited academic freedom and no autonomy from the state. In such a system faculties are contract employees delivering predesigned courses with no incentive to bring new ideas and methods. But emplo…
This thesis is basically concerned with the status of the 'regional development processes' under the system of 'medium-term national socio-economic development planning'. The evaluation of the regional dimension of the sectoralised approach to elaboration of the national plan in…
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…
This dissertation examines European involvement in the efforts of the Ottoman government to restructure the Orthodox Church and community ( millet) during the mid-nineteenth century. This is accomplished by placing squarely within the context of international diplomacy the progr…
In “Lucretia Mott: Theology is Reform's Foundation” I articulate the theology of Lucretia Coffin Mott, a nineteenth-century Quaker preacher who was one of the leaders in the abolitionist movement, and a founder of the woman's rights movement in the U.S. Although she has been stu…
This study applies ethnographic methods using the Epistemic Triangle as a lens for investigating teachers' appropriation of a bilingual educational reform policy (i.e., making it their own) in first and second grade Hausa-French classrooms in Niger. The Epistemic Triangle highli…
This study first reviews the innovative pedagogy of Janusz Korczak (1878–1942) within the European social milieu and intellectual Zeitgeist in the first half of the twentieth century, but the main part of the study examines the way in which Korczak's pedagogy is implemented in a…
The problem this ethnographic study addresses is the relationship between various ways of understanding "difference" and particular conceptualizations of what might constitute just educational practices for students across lines of social demarcation. Thinking about differences …
Dans la foulée des politiques d’ajustement structurel (PAS), les autorités marocaines ont entrepris en 1985 de réformer le secteur éducatif, en visant entre autres, d'améliorer le processus d’allocation des ressources et d’augmenter les nouvelles inscriptions au niveau fondament…
Muslim family reform in Iraq has been the most difficult of Shari'ah laws to accomplish because of public resistance to change and fear of manipulation of the traditional laws as interpreted by the early scholars. The problems were compounded by tradition and custom which impose…
The purpose of this study was to explore the feelings, thoughts, behaviors and/or experiences of Saudi participants with regard to the major tenets of Multiple Intelligences (MI) theory as it related to the Saudi context. The literature indicated that MI theory had raised the co…
The current educational reform movement in the United States calls for increased centralization and standardization of curriculum. Interestingly, there is a concurrent important international debate on a more decentralized system of education delivery. The successful incorporati…
This dissertation, an ethnographic and sociolinguistic case study of Israeli feminist practices, investigates the relationship between language use, language ideology, and the socio-cultural construction of gender and gender identity. Taking the definition of language use presen…