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A Correlational Study of Attitudes of Students and Faculty Members toward Internationalization in a Private Higher Education Institution in Puerto Rico
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Ginorio-Martinez, Angel M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Globalization and internationalization are topics frequently discussed in the literature and their importance has been growing between higher education institutions around the world. In fact, the number of students seeking study abroad programs were 4.5 million in 2012 and is expected to rise to 7 million in 2020, representing $13.5 billion to US…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Correlation, International Education, Statistical Analysis
The Importance of National Identity in Social Studies Classes in Puerto Rico: An Examination of Teacher and Student Perceptions of "Lo Nacional"
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Díaz Peña, Jesús D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, is home to approximately 3.4 million U.S. citizens. The literature on Puerto Rican national identity (PRNI) describes how and why it has been debated on the island for more than five hundred years throughout the colonial trajectory, once under Spain and now as a…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Identification (Psychology), Ideology, Middle School Teachers
Educating toward Direct Democracy and Ecological Sustainability: Theory of Social Ecology as a Framework for Critical, Democratic, and Community-Based Education
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Holohan, Kevin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The aim of this dissertation project was to explore and extrapolate the work of the left-libertarian social theorist, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006), paying particular attention to his theory of social ecology and to examine its implications for and use as a comprehensive philosophical/theoretical framework for alternative secondary education that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Democracy, Sustainability, Educational Theories