Browsing GSE Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Education, Bilingual and Multicultural"
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An Assets- and Equity-Based Approach to Multilingualism, Multiliteracy, and Multiculturalism: Harnessing the Development of a District-Wide Strategy to Foster Learning, Shift Mindsets, and Seed System-Level Change
(2017-05-01)In the United States and globally, there is growing recognition of the extensive cognitive, emotional, social, and economic benefits of multilingualism, multiliteracy, and multiculturalism. At the same time, a double ... -
Botho – “I Am Because We are.” Constructing National Identity in the Midst of Ethnic Diversity in Botswana’s Junior Secondary Schools
(2017-05-05)Multiethnic states globally face the dilemma of how to negotiate ethnic diversity while promoting a unified national identity. In Botswana, a remarkable example of peace and stability in Sub-Saharan Africa, two highly ... -
Community Organizing and School Transformation
(2016-05-02)Across the country, community organizing has emerged as a strategy for engaging low-incoming communities and communities of color in school transformation. There is increasing recognition that this approach can be used to ... -
A Contributing Role of Parental Investments in Early Learning to Head Start Impacts on Children’s Language and Literacy: Examining How Mechanisms of Program Impact Differ for Spanish-Speaking Dual Language Learners (DLL) and Non-DLL
(2015-05-15)Head Start is the largest and longest-standing publicly-funded preschool program, serving close to 1 million low-income children and their families, with an annual budget of over $10 billion. While early childhood programs ... -
Identifying Predictors of Academic Writing in English as a Foreign Language: A Study on Early Adolescents in Korea and China
(2017-10-27)Attaining English proficiency in two East Asian countries, Korea and China, is often described as a “national obsession.” Although adolescent English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners are rapidly increasing in number, ... -
Language Ideologies and Identity Construction Among Dual Language Youth
(2016-05-13)Cross-cultural learning and identity formation are an under-theorized but fundamental aspect of dual language bilingual schools, where heritage speakers and English-only learners of a foreign language are educated together ... -
Letting Go of Clecha, While Holding Corazón; Developing a New Approach to Empowering Youth in Gangs the Homeboy Industries Way
(2016-05-02)This capstone seeks to assess and support Homeboy Industries (HBI), a leader in wrap-around services for formerly gang-involved and incarcerated men and women, in their co-creation of a youth services committee and a ... -
Opening the Door to Cross-Cultural Educación in Two-Way Immersion Programs
(2015-05-08)Learning how to interact with others of diverse backgrounds is essential to effective participation in a globalized world and is a key goal of two-way language immersion programs, which bring together students from different ...