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Qazi, M. Habib; Shah, Saeeda – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
This study investigates Pakistan's secondary school children's constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by drawing on data collected from students and teachers from the case school and analysing national curriculum textbooks used in the school. Informed by Foucault's concepts, the article problematises how the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, National Curriculum
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Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly; Al-Said, Khaleel; Makrakis, Vassilios; Kalogiannakis, Pella; de Baz, Theodora – Intercultural Education, 2010
The present study examined the perceptions of Jordanian and Greek pre-service teachers (N = 489) towards the "Other" as well as towards tolerance and intolerance. Frequencies, "t"-tests and one-way analysis of variance, as well as multiple regression analyses, were performed for the data analysis. The results show that although…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Statistical Analysis, Comparative Analysis, Preservice Teachers
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Al-Khatib, Jamal; And Others – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 1996
A study tested the hypothesis that nativism, ethnocentrism, and nationalism have a direct negative effect on students' choice to study international business. Subjects were 222 incoming freshman business students at 4 universities. Results indicated high levels of nativism and ethnocentrism, but not nationalism, were major inhibitors to studying…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, College Students, Course Selection (Students), Ethnocentrism
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Carrington, Bruce; Short, Geoffrey – Educational Studies, 1996
Presents the results of a case study of 9- to 11-year-olds' understanding of nationalism and collective identity in Scotland. Compares the responses of mostly-white Edinburgh students with those drawn from a multiethnic cohort from English schools. Examines the policy implications of these results. (MJP)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Background, Educational Policy
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Lee, Mimi Miyoung – Ethnography and Education, 2006
Based on an ethnographic case study done in an all-white, rural middle school, this article examines the students' experience with and interpretation of an international education program implemented with a hope of providing more global/international contents to the curriculum. The study shows that these students interpreted other cultures…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Case Studies, Rural Schools, Middle Schools