Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors
This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews and texts produced during a pedagogical training program...
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| author | Vesna Holubek Pauliina Alenius Vesa Korhonen Nazmi Al-Masri |
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| description | This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews and texts produced during a pedagogical training program with Palestinian university instructors. The study examines teaching and learning cultures as constructed by discourses in and around the Palestinian university. A poststructuralist discourse analysis identified five discourses of teaching and learning: disciplinary differences, traditional and modern education, improving education, sociocultural and religious context, and political and economic circumstances. The study shows that teaching and learning cultures are dynamic and fragmented as they are constructed by the contrasting discourses. The findings suggest that pedagogical development initiatives need to provide spaces for discursive transformation, especially in the transnational context that introduces additional alternative discourses into the institutional cultural meaning-making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f44295b1fe5048e6bf8eb5300133b72e2022-12-22T02:37:10ZengGeorgia Southern UniversityInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning1931-47442022-05-0116210.20429/ijsotl.2022.160209Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University InstructorsVesna HolubekPauliina AleniusVesa KorhonenNazmi Al-MasriThis qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews and texts produced during a pedagogical training program with Palestinian university instructors. The study examines teaching and learning cultures as constructed by discourses in and around the Palestinian university. A poststructuralist discourse analysis identified five discourses of teaching and learning: disciplinary differences, traditional and modern education, improving education, sociocultural and religious context, and political and economic circumstances. The study shows that teaching and learning cultures are dynamic and fragmented as they are constructed by the contrasting discourses. The findings suggest that pedagogical development initiatives need to provide spaces for discursive transformation, especially in the transnational context that introduces additional alternative discourses into the institutional cultural meaning-making.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol16/iss2/9teaching and learningculturesdiscourseshigher education institutionstransnational education |
| spellingShingle | Vesna Holubek Pauliina Alenius Vesa Korhonen Nazmi Al-Masri Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning teaching and learning cultures discourses higher education institutions transnational education |
| title | Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors |
| title_full | Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors |
| title_fullStr | Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors |
| title_full_unstemmed | Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors |
| title_short | Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors |
| title_sort | construction of teaching and learning cultures in transnational pedagogical development discourses among palestinian university instructors |
| topic | teaching and learning cultures discourses higher education institutions transnational education |
| url | https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol16/iss2/9 |
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