The Capstone Paper is written by students in the Master's Program in Intercultural Service, Leadership, and Management. Capstones reassess theoretical knowledge in light of professional experience in the form of a final research paper, incorporating both classroom knowledge and practicum based experience.
The full-text of papers in the Capstone Collection is limited to World Learning/SIT faculty, staff, students, and alumni. If you are not affiliated with World Learning and want access to these papers contact your local library and ask about requesting the hard copy on interlibrary loan.
Due to copyright restrictions some papers are not available full-text electronically. World Learning affiliated students and staff can check these papers out of the library or, if you are off-campus, request them via interlibrary loan
Submissions from 2012
Addressing the Learning Needs at Occupy DC, Andrew J. Batcher
Analysis of National Association of Bilingual Education, Sam J. Baumer
Addiction in Alaska: How Alcohol Abuse is Impacting Community Members in Native Villages throughout Rural Alaska, Cristina Casillo
Empowerment, Engagement and Efficacy: Incorporating Youth Participant Voices into Program Assessment at OneWorld Now!, Darielle Horsey
Power of Play: Is Girls’ Empowerment through Sport Social Justice?, Victoria M. Jones
Behind Bars: prison abolition and collective work toward social justice, Emily M. Pulsfus
LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter: The role of social media in developing community for non-profits, Elizabeth Weaver
Submissions from 2011
Shooting The Moon: Social Justice and The Logic of Capitalism, Jonathan G. Barnes
The Charter School Commercial: NYC’s Fight Against Public School Privatization, Keedra Gustava Gibba
Indigenous Perspectives: The Struggle For Land, Culture And Education In Rivas, Nicaragua, Jeremy Harrison-Smith
Farmworkers In D_ County, California Define Their Labor Rights, Amanda Jordan
Knowledge vs. Understanding: An Assessment of Teachers’ Perceptions on Tracking in One School District in Southern California, Matthew Killian
Immigrant Women Organize For Justice: A Listening Project, Sandra Catalina Nieto
Education For The Excluded: Alternative Education In Bolivia, Martha Rath
Fighting Fire With Flame: Visual Storytelling As The Antidote To Negative Media Imagery, Léna Sulpovar
Narrating Women's Interfaith Agency: Stories of Faith, Transformation, and Vision, Audra Teague
Submissions from 2010
Empowering a Shift in Self-Awareness: An Inquiry into How Buddhism Benefits Westerners at Work, Kerry Leigh Ambrose
Extremists for Love: Social Action in Church Ministries – An Evaluation of the Diocese Of Kansas’ College Missions to Kenya, Kiera Leigh Evans
Parent Perspectives of Standardized Tests, Bethany Hobbs
Preparing White Educators for Multicultural Classrooms: Exploring Privilege, Power, and Rearticulating White Identity, Rijelle M. A. Kraft
When Black Is The Same Color: A Collective View of Domestic and International Black Students on Race at the SIT Graduate Institute, André Devon Marks
An Analysis of Women For Human Right's Initiative: Fighting For Social Security For Widows Across Nepal, Morgan Rebecca St. Clair
Deaf People and Human Rights in Humanitarian Assistance: Rights of Accessibility for Deaf Victims from Natural Disasters., Erikson Young
Submissions from 2009
Understanding Indigenous Spirituality: The Kankanaey Sida Ritual, Marjorie M. Balay-As
Building A Relevant Community Food Security Movement For All People In The Brattleboro Area, Angela Berkfield
Ready, Willing And Able…Competencies And Training For SIT Youth Peacebuilding And Leadership Program Staff, Melanie A. Brubaker
Mujeres Con Esperanza: Reflecting On Training In My Second Language, And Designing For Effective Social Justice Advocacy, Phyllis Nicole Chill
Overcoming the Storm: The Most Effective Healing Strategies for African American Female Survivors of Sexual Violence, Argrow Kitnequa Evans
Neoliberal Ideology And The Restructuring Of Education In South Korea: The Continued Struggle For Democratic Social Reform, Workers’ Rights And Cham, Elizabeth Goggin
Social Justice Struggles in Freedom Park: Linking Advocacy, Research and Community Organizing, Corinne Nadine Hoag
Young People’s Experiences With And Perceptions Of The Police In Worcester, MA, Liz Leidel
Building Non-Violent Social Justice Movement Through Innovation in Community Justice Systems: Turkana Village Courts Experience; Northwest, Kenya, John Erus Lopeyok
Connecting Theory and Practice, Life and Times in Oaxaca, Mexico, Jill Muhm
Homelessness In Cincinnati: Discussing The Consumer, Community Members, And Social Service Agencies, Michael Murphy
Reducing Wage and Hour Violations: A Study of the San Francisco Bay Area Day Labor Industry, Nanako Otsuki
"Nowhere to Run to, Baby, Nowhere to Hide” : The Effects of the 2009 Recession on Women Seeking Shelter from Domestic Abuse, Melanie L. Patterson
Submissions from 2008
Immigrants in Rural America: The Experiences and Perceptions of Hispanic Integration in Bennington, Vermont., Juiana Camacho Simpson
In League: Global Warming And Globalization, Allissa Beth Cloer
Social Justice And The Public School Classroom: How experiential education, culturally relevant pedagogy, and state standards work together in theory and practice, Julie Greenfield
The Initiative of a Network: A Case Study on Global Water Partnership’s Advocacy Efforts for Integrated Water Resources Management in Cameroon, Rachel Hamidou
Collective Identity and Mobilizations: The Relationship between Perceptions of Self and Community-Oriented Action, Farhad Karim
Attitude Formation in College Students in Henan Province, China Regarding Minority Nationals, Austen Petersen
Palestinian Refugee Youth and the Legacy of Right of Return, Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch
What is Integration? Migrants’, Refugees’, and Asylum seekers’ Views and Experiences- A Study from London, Anne Stoltenberg
Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction in an Ethnic Community in Vietnam, Hoang Vuong
Submissions from 2007
Intercultural Intimacy: an examination of cross-cultural couples and the implications for intercultural communication competence, Stéphanie Guimarães Bibb
U.S. Based International Volunteering: An Exploration Of Peace Corps Thailand Volunteers As Community Development Workers, Andrea Bontrager
Rural At-Risk Youth: Identifying Community Supported Program Goals, Dorothy Alston Calley
Market Campaigns: An Effective Contribution to the Global Justice Movement?, Jennifer DeLury
An Analysis Of Bolivia’s Oil And Gas Nationalization: One Initiative In The Democracy Center’s International Advocacy Efforts, Aaron S. Luoma
From “Charity” To “Social Justice”: Reconceptualizing Service-Learning To Facilitate Social Justice Consciousness Among Preservice Teachers, Amanda Moeller
Teachers, Study Circles and the Racial Achievement Gap: How One Dialogue and Action Program Helped Teachers Integrate the Competencies of an Effective Multicultural Educator, Catherine Brenner Orland
A Report on the learning from the Reflective Practice Questions and Capstone Paper, Venkatesh Raghavendra
One Veil Between Two Eyes: How Muslim and Western Women in the United States Perceive Human Rights and Women’s Rights, Sahar Sattarzadeh
Creating Social And Economic Opportunities For Indonesian Immigrants In The United States: A Critical Examination Of The Family Saving Account and The Micro-Enterprise Program Of The Women’s Opportunity Resource Center, Siti Kurnia Widiastutira
Submissions from 2006
Who are the natives here? : how do non-Hawai'ians living in Hawai'i perceive Hawai'ian sovereignty?, Beverly Allen-Ananins
A pedagogy of service : developing spiritual human resources through praxis in the Ruhi Institute curriculum, Jeffery Clark
Let's get real : how anti-bias, anti-bullying curricula impact the way middle school youth talk about bullying and bias, Adore Davidson
Terror in the heartland : fear, propaganda & the social construction of the neoconservative agenda, Carolyn Little
The practice of process : a study of one teacher's reflections on the teaching of critical multicultural pedagogy, Miriam Patterson
Regional network building for local economic development : the local partnership model project in Poland, Christina Thomas
Submissions from 2005
Between individuals and institutions : an analysis of a supportive housing program on the North Side of Chicago, Anne E. Bergen-Aurand
Fellowship networks in community leadership development programs : a case study, Kimberly Anne Bloch-Rincan
Art for social responsibility : stories behind artists' commitment to social justice and an analysis of moral development in activist art, Rita Marie Brown
Interethnic mentoring : a case study, Koni F. Denham
Submissions from 2004
Corporate mommy, Emily Daniels
Submissions from 2003
Identity Borderlands: What Opportunities Can They Offer Us?, Laurie McDonnell
Submissions from 2002
The role of Armenian women as peacebuilders since the end of the Soviet era, Cloe Liparini