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Zaidi, Sara M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation employs data collected from multiple sites in Southern California over a period of nine months. Several in-depth ethnographic interviews and participant observations were conducted with Pakistani Muslim women (age 17-22) and their parents in an effort to better understand the influence that parents and ethno-religious communities…
Descriptors: Muslims, Females, Foreign Countries, Ethnography
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Jiang, Ying Hong; Yau, Jenny; Bonner, Patricia; Chiang, Linda – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2011
Introduction: Driven by an overarching conceptual framework adapted from Self-Determination Theory, this study tested the direct and indirect effects of perceived parental academia autonomy support vs. academic planning control on the interrelated variables of adolescents' self-esteem, academic motivation, and academic achievement, using…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Self Determination
Warren, Richard L. – 1981
This is a report of a case study, in the anthropological tradition, of an elementary school with a bilingual-bicultural program. The research was carried out in 1978. The school is in a community of 45,000 located close to the California-Mexican border. Eighty-seven percent of the pupil population are of Hispanic background, 10 percent are Anglo,…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Case Studies, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education
Cegelka, Patricia Thomas; And Others – 1986
A product of a statewide (California) survey of 104 school districts and 9 county educational agencies, the report focuses on promising practices for use with handicapped children of limited English proficiency (LEP). In Phase One, seven categories of promising practices or program attributes were identified:(1) first and second language…
Descriptors: Administration, Annotated Bibliographies, Bias, Cultural Differences