Thesis (D.A.)--Illinois State University, 1995. / Title from title page screen, viewed April 24, 2006. Dissertation Committee: M. Paul Holsinger (chair), Lawrence W. McBride, Louis G. Perez, Edward L. Schapsmeier, Beverly A. Smith. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 390-417) and abstract. Also available in print.

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This study addresses a concern for the experience of participants in Canadian Government sponsored language and job-training programs for recent immigrants, specifically El Salvadoran refugees. The research has sought to uncover, through interviews with two former students, some of their impressions and insights concerning their participation in a Canadian government sponsored language and job-training program. The interviews were structured to account for historical, cultural, political, ideological and educational events and influences in El Salvador and Canada that contributed to the formation of their subjective experience within the context of the Canadian programs in which they participated. Analysis of the interview transcripts and notes made during and after the interviews revealed several emergent themes. These were: political activity and war, teachers as leaders, religion, what is good teaching, adjustment to Canada, values and hopes, and the need for ESL and job-training programs. In the views of the two informants, the teacher-student relationship, based on awareness, communication and respect emerged as a very important feature of successful pedagogy . The findings are related and discussed in relation to Canadian society. The instructional implications are discussed with reference to relevant pedagogical approaches. / Education, Faculty of / Language and Literacy Education (LLED), Department of / Graduate

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This thesis is a study of religion in movement through retellings of stories from members of the Vietnamese-Canadian immigrant community in Montreal, Québec. It aims to demonstrate that religion, specifically Buddhism, plays an important role in processes of homemaking. The thesis maps Vietnamese Buddhism as a complex system of shifting beliefs and practices, highly contingent on its encounters with different environments and people. It aims to show that the tradition is strongly anchored in members of the community’s everyday life given that it is tightly intertwined with cultural ways to interact, eat, care, and treat their family members, alive and dead. This thesis, following North American Religions scholars, aims to challenge the assumption that the modern world, due to its post-Enlightenment disenchantment with the superstitious in the move toward the rational and scientific, has been “secularized,” that is, emptied of religion, which has declined and become privatized. It argues that religion still has much to do with the way everyday life is lived. The research thus takes up a “lived religion” approach to enquire into the ordinary religious subject’s everyday practices in new, often non- religious, and profane spaces, rather than the explicit and exclusive religious life of the unambiguously religious individual. It aims to demonstrate that studying religion constitutes a generative avenue to understanding societies today. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / This thesis is interested in constructions of religion and of religious identity in the diaspora, specifically the making of Vietnamese Buddhism in Montreal, Québec. It both attempts to understand Vietnamese Buddhism in Montreal as constructed by those who experience it, and religion’s role in the creation of a Canadian and Vietnamese identity. How is Vietnamese Buddhism lived in Montreal? In what ways does Buddhism shape Vietnamese-Canadians’ interactions? How might Buddhism play into marking them as different?

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 1999. Graduate Programme in History. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 436-482). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/yorku/fullcit?pNQ56261.

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