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McAdoo, Daryl Spen, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Critical scholars have asserted for decades that effective educational programming for black students and communities requires the guidance, governance, and leadership of African American professionals who can understand and affirm the identities of those being served (DuBois, 1935; Lomotey, 1989; Lomotey, 1993; Lightfoot, 1983; Sowell, 1976;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, African Americans, Boards of Education, Racial Factors
Zekraoui, Lotfi – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The MENA region has witnessed unprecedented political and social events that started with a youth revolt in Tunisia in December 2010 and was followed by a series of uprisings spanning the whole region in the following months. Historians, political scientists and sociologists have attempted to study this so-called "Arab Spring" each from…
Descriptors: Authoritarianism, Social Change, Arabs, Case Studies
Arends, Jessica Hope – ProQuest LLC, 2014
In higher education, the number of service-based courses and student experiences has increased considerably over the past few years, especially those with the purpose of developing global citizenship skills (Bringle, Hatcher, & Jones, 2010; Hunter, White, & Godbey, 2006). Indeed, advocates claim that service-learning facilitates two…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Service Learning, Cultural Awareness, College Faculty
Robinson, Emily Erin Peterson – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Single parent households are on the rise, and female headed households are more likely to live in poverty than other single parent households (Holyfield, 2002). Many single mothers who do not have an undergraduate degree see education as a way out of poverty (Holyfield, 2002; Heller & Bjorklund, 2004). This research was undertaken to highlight…
Descriptors: Poverty, Mothers, One Parent Family, Counseling Services
Baxter, Kathleen B. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
As a result of the underrepresentation of women in science and engineering programs, the culture is male-dominated and perpetuates an unsupportive and biased climate that discourages undergraduate women from connecting to their gender. Using a social identity framework, this study addresses how gender influences undergraduate women's perception of…
Descriptors: Women Scientists, Focus Groups, Science Careers, Engineering
Swagman, Kirstin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The institutionalization of separate standard varieties for Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian in the 1990s was hailed by many Bosnians as the long-denied recognition of the Bosnian idiom as distinct from the Serbian and Croatian varieties it had so often been subordinated under. Yet the accompanying codification of Bosnian standard language forms has…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Middle Schools, Language Variation, Ideology