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Amezaga Rivera, Lesbia Nannette – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Considering the signifying power of visuality to function as language as it constructs, fashions, and alters conceptualizations, and focusing on the Caribbean woman for my research, this study explored the dynamics involved in the construction of the Other by means of the colonial visual imagery and written discourse deployed by Europe and the…
Descriptors: Females, Latin Americans, Power Structure, Foreign Policy
Jain, Romi – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Internationalization of higher education is a major characteristic of China's higher education policy. Accordingly, the Chinese government is fervently encouraging the spread of Chinese language and culture through Confucius Institutes, student exchange programs, recruitment of international students, and international collaborations. South Asia…
Descriptors: International Education, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Confucianism
Holder, Adela Berry – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research is a study of the relationship between language acquisition and the status of equity. The history of the Maya people in Guatemala gives strong evidence that their failure to acquire competence in Spanish, which is the national language of their nation, has resulted in their failure to compete in the social, economic, and political…
Descriptors: American Indians, American Indian Languages, Correlation, Social Status
Jimenez, Leslie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation explores the experiences of Native American college students at a four-year institution. Additionally, institutional and non-institutional supports, strategies of resistance against oppression used by Native American college students, and examination of the role that spiritual activism plays in strategies of resistance at a…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, College Students, Activism, Student Attitudes
Pipitone, Jennifer M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Efforts to globalize higher education have resulted in study abroad climbing to an all-time high in the United States. Amidst this growth, emergent bodies of literature have uncovered problematic trends in study abroad that reproduce hierarchies of power and colonialism, perpetuate views of an exotic cultural "other," and privilege…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Journal Writing, Reflection
Healey-Walsh, Judith – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Based on demographic shifts toward more diversity and increasing health care disparities in the United States, nursing educators have been called upon to find innovative pedagogies to teach cultural competence and social justice concepts. International service-learning programs (ISL) are proliferating, as there is evidence that these experiences…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Power Structure, Partnerships in Education, Nursing Education
Ka opua, Heipua – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the status of women of color in academe with a particular focus on Native Hawaiian women faculty. Using a qualitative narrative design, this research examined the experiences of tenured instructional Native Hawaiian women faculty (Na Wahine) at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. Two research questions guided this inquiry: 1)…
Descriptors: Tenure, Women Faculty, Hawaiians, Minority Group Teachers
Tusiime, Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation examines the experiences of Kigali Institute of Education students using a framework of democratic education theories. In Rwanda, the discriminatory and non-critical education system is believed to have been one of the major causes for the civil strife that has characterized the country, beginning in its post independence to its…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Social Justice, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
Garcia, Jeremy – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This Critical Indigenous Qualitative Research study examined the ways in which K-12 Hopi/Tewa educators and principals negotiated curriculum and pedagogy selected for Hopi/Tewa students. Specifically, the study examined: (1) how the developing theoretical frameworks of Red Pedagogy (Grande, 2004) and Tribal Critical Race Theory (Brayboy, 2006)…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Teaching Methods, Curriculum
Aw, Fanta – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The research study examines the relationship of international students to changing U.S. political economy. The research attempts to move international students from the periphery to the center of understanding the changing U.S. political economy in the twenty-first century. I argue that international students play an important role in building a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Democracy, Engineering, Developing Nations
Shoaff, Jennifer Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This research sterns from twelve months of ethnographic research with Haitian migrant women who reside in "Batey Sol", a former sugar-company labor camp located along the "Linea Noroeste" (northwest line) linking the Dominican Rebulic's border town of Dajabon with the urban center of Santiago. The multi-sited study considers…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Global Approach, Foreign Countries