Bilingual and Bicultural Education. Alternative Educational Approaches to Ethnic Communities

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Georgiev
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Educational Integration

The article presents the characteristics of bilingualism according to modern linguistic theories as well as the approaches of elaboration and implementation of bilingual educational programs in Europe and the United States. The advantages of the socio-cultural approach in selection and implementation of educational integration programs are outlined, with the emphasis on the so-called productive training.

Conservative Catholicism and American Philanthropy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udi Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
West Germany ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
War Effort ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Effective Path

This chapter focuses on political theorist Waldemar Gurian, one of the first Catholic émigrés to return from exile to visit Germany in 1948. During the occupation period and the early 1950s, Gurian utilized U.S. wealth to fund a stream of publications, lectures, and educational programs intended to establish a union between the United States and Europe's Catholics. His writings depicted the United States as the guardian of Catholic ideals, autonomy, and communities and insisted that an alliance with the United States presented the only effective path toward defeating Catholicism's ultimate enemy, the Soviet Union. With the massive support of the American diplomatic and cultural apparatus, Gurian and other émigrés worked to popularize these ideas among German Catholics. By the mid-1950s, their efforts helped forge an alliance between Catholics, West Germany, and the United States, a bond that became the backbone of the Cold War effort in Europe.

Market vs. Academic Models

2011 ◽  
pp. 1272-1274
Author(s):  
Gary A. Berg
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Market Models ◽  
For Profit ◽  
University Mission

In recent years much has been written on the link between distance learning and the commercialization of higher education (Berg, 2002). Particularly in the United States, this debate has been described as a conflict between open and traditional academic-market models. As various government, nonprofit, and for-profit ownership of these nontraditional universities are present worldwide, it is important to understand the market-model issues and how they influence university mission and implementation of educational programs.

Dancing in the Street: Impacting At-Risk Youths’ Lives through the Arts

2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 516-518
Author(s):  
Sharon Kantorowski Davis
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
The United States ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Community Dance ◽  
Limited Success ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Collaborative Art

In the United States, youth involvement in delinquent and criminal acts remains persistent and increasingly violent. For at-risk youth, key demographics include poverty and distressed communities. Since traditional interventions have had limited success in addressing the needs of and issues experienced by these youths, millennials must seek new and creative techniques and programs to serve them. One such program that currently exists and provides inspiration for the future is Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company, a nonprofit, community dance group based in Oakland, CA, that offers competitive scholarships to deserving, at-risk youth in lower class, largely ethnic communities. In the ethnographic documentary, FREE: The Power of Performance, the lives of five at-risk youths are affected and transformed through the creative medium of dance. It shows that for at-risk, diverse teens, collaborative art can be a foundation for personal strength, liberation, and hope.

Criminal Justice Higher Education- Its Growth and Directions

1974 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph J. Senna
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Criminal Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Educational Programs

This article traces the development of higher education in criminal justice in the United States, in regard to the numbers of programs and numbers of students enrolled, from the early 1920's to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on a review of this growth during the 1960's, when many of these educational programs were developed.

Translation of the Diabetes Prevention Program to Ethnic Communities in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 479-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel L. Hall ◽  
Emily G. Lattie ◽  
Judith R. McCalla ◽  
Patrice G. Saab
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
Diabetes Prevention ◽  
Diabetes Prevention Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ethnic Communities

scholarly journals Muslim Communities in North America

1995 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-118
Author(s):  
Omar Altalib
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities

This book, which is a collection of 22 articles by 25 authors, is appropriatefor undergraduate courses on religion in the United States, religiousminorities, immigrant communities, the history of religion, and the sociologyof Islam and Muslims. The first part contains five articles on religiouscommunities, the second part has nine articles on the mosaic of Islamiccommunities in major American metropolitan centers, and the third partconsists of eight articles on ethnic communities in metropolitan settings.Each part should have been a separate book, as this would have made thebook less bulky and more accessible to those who are interested in onlyone of the areas covered.Reading this book makes it clear that there is great need for Muslimscholars to study and analyze their own communities, which have a richhistory and have only been studied recently. Books such as this are animportant contribution to the understanding of Muslims in the West andalso serve to clear up many misconceptions about Muslims, a developmentthat makes interfaith and intercommunity dialogue easier.Part 1 begins with an article on the Shi'ah communities in NorthAmerica by Abdulaziz Sachedina (professor of religious studies, University ...

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