Journal for Multicultural Education: Volume 11 Issue 4

Survival of Islamic education in a secular state: the madrasah in Singapore

Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor, Nurhanisah Senin, Khadijah Mohd Khambali Hambali, Asyiqin Ab Halim

This paper attempts to explore the transformations taken by madrasah, especially in preparing students both in religious and academic field. Besides, this paper aims to…

Numbers don’t lie: problematizing faculty diversity at HSIs

Rosa Maria Banda, Alonzo M. Flowers, Petra Robinson

Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), like other universities, are faced with challenges related to faculty diversity. The literature related to faculty at HSIs is scant and so…

School personnel-student racial congruence and the achievement gap

Allison B. Moore, Cynthia MacGregor, Jeffrey Cornelius-White

This paper aims to examine the relationship between student achievement and racial congruence of school personnel and students to help educators and policy makers narrow the…

Social skills scores: The impact of primary school population characteristics and parental involvement

Karien Dekker, Margje Kamerling

The paper aims to examine to what extent and why parental involvement as well as characteristics of ethnic school population influence social skills scores (social position…

A cultural insight into the development of teacher autonomy support scale: A self-determination theory perspective

Rosna Awang-Hashim, Rajaletchumi Thaliah, Amrita Kaur

The cross-cultural significance of autonomy within self-determination theory is divisive on universal significance. This paper aims to report a sequential exploratory mixed…

A novel module for cultivate unity and harmony in multicultural society through arts education

Balamuralithara Balakrishnan

Promoting unity in multicultural society among Malaysians should start from school education since young age. Art through its own variety of approaches could show possibilities in…