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A Narrative Research Study on How Brazilian Women Executives Build a Sense of Community and Belonging When Transferred to the United States
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Silvia Regina Siqueira – ProQuest LLC, 2023
According to the American Immigration Council (2021), 14 percent of the United States population is foreign-born. Immigrants have enriched American culture and enhanced our influence in the world. People feel a need to belong and have an inherent desire for deep, lasting, and meaningful connections (Baumeister & Leary, 1995). Research suggests…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Foreign Nationals, Self Concept
Goals, Principles, and Practices for Community-Based Adult Education through the Lens of a Hatcher-Assagioli Synthesis
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Ayvazian, Andrea S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examines how adult education can facilitate learning towards the full realization of human potential. It synthesizes two theories of human development, and applies this to the practice of community-based adult education carried out by trained facilitators who do not have formal degrees in the field of mental health. The first part of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Literature Reviews, Foreign Countries
Rescuing Tradition at the Pierre Verger Cultural Space: Teaching and Learning Afro-Brazilian Culture through Music in Brazil
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Junqueira, Joao Carlos – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study investigates how the Pierre Verger Cultural Space (PVCS), an educational organization dedicated to teaching Afro-Brazilian culture in Bahia, uses music to construct a sense of Afro-Brazilian self. Located in a poverty-stricken neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, the PVCS sees its mission as "rescuing" ("resgatar") an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Music, Field Studies, Music Activities