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Fostering upward mobility of Mexican American adults through a critical incident

Creator:

Matthews, Mildred Shuman

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This research design was based upon the mutual relevance between the fields of education and anthropology to cause cognitive cultural awareness by the teachers of adults as well as visibility within the Mexican American ethnic group. Specifically the purpose of this study was twofold:. (1) to determine whether the adult...

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Dissertation

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Fostering upward mobility of the Mexican American adult
Educational Migration in Indonesia : An Ethnography of Eastern Indonesian Students in Malang, Java

Creator:

Foertsch, Christopher R.

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This research explores the experience of the growing number of students from Eastern Indonesia who attend universities on Java. It asks key questions about the challenges these often maligned students face as ethnic, linguistic, and religious minorities exposed to the dominant culture of their republic during their years of education....

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Masters Thesis

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human mobility and interconnection through improved transportation, online social and mass media, and
International students as educational migrants : east and southwest Asian perspectives

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Visconti, Lauren A.

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Projected to reach one million people next year, international students in the United States are undergoing a transformative educational migration. Moving away from the existing study abroad paradigm is the first step to more accurately understand the lived experience of an educational migrant. Discovering the perceptions of what value an...

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Masters Thesis

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individual uses to negotiate their social environment - abroad is perceived as a way to better navigate the