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Direct linkCohen, Elisheva – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2022
This study examines the construction, navigation, and contestation of belonging for Syrian refugee youth in the context of inclusive refugee education in Jordan, where refugee students study alongside Jordanian nationals. I demonstrate how belonging is always in flux and constantly being negotiated across local, national, and transnational scales,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Inclusion, Student School Relationship
Hind Al-Braizat – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2024
This research paper aims to analyze the perspectives of a selection of Jordanian women between the ages of 20 and 50 on social justice and explore if ingrained gender discrimination prevents women from attaining equality in Jordan. It tries to pinpoint the factors that hinder or motivate women to pursue social justice in Jordan while identifying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Social Justice, Social Change
Download full textJehan Alghneimin; Attila Varga; Monika Kovacs – Hungarian Educational Research Journal, 2024
In recent years, the integrated approach of STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has been adopted in the Middle East to improve students' scientific capacities and their formative thinking. Nevertheless, this approach encounters complications in the application, including many due to gender differences. Middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
Khaleda Sammour – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Television production plays a significant role in shaping and exposing cultures around the globe. This paper is an attempt to address multiple fundamental concerns and challenges underlying TV production in the Middle East and the perception towards women in the region. The study population consists of a sample of 1010 college students at Al-Najah…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sex Stereotypes, Television, Cultural Influences
Al Jayyousi-Alsalim G. F.; Alsayed Hassan D.; Khaled S. M.; Zolezzi M.; O'Hara L.; Daher-Nashif S.; Alhaija E. S.; Kane T.; Al-Wattary N.; Abidia R. F.; Al Hadeethi T. T. A.; Abdul Rahim H. F.; Morris L. D. – SAGE Open, 2024
Academic life in the present era is subject to several occupational stressors, including increased workloads, reduced research funding, tenuous career paths, and family-work conflicts. Such stressors affect academics' quality of life, wellbeing, and job satisfaction, and women are particularly vulnerable. There is, however, a dearth of information…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Well Being, Females
Banikalef, Ala'Eddin Abdullah – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This study aims to examine the speech act of congratulations in the Arabic language on the occasion of 'birthday' among young Arab Jordanians who use Facebook to share social life with each other. The data collected is 855 birthday congratulation notes posted by 100 Jordanian Facebook users. The convenience sampling is being used as research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Media, Interpersonal Communication
Farahat, Ashraf – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2022
Introduction: Academic integrity is the expectation that members of the academic community, including researchers, teachers, and students, to act with accuracy, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect. Academic integrity is an issue of critical importance to academic institutions and has been gaining increasing interest among scholars in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Integrity, Ethics, Cheating
Almoabdi, Rahaf Bandar – Online Submission, 2022
This research investigates females' awareness of politeness and politeness strategies and their use of those strategies in the English department at the University of Jeddah. The researcher used a quantitative method to collect the data. A questionnaire with three sections was designed and distributed to 25 participants at the University of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Interpersonal Relationship, English (Second Language)
Othman, Areej; Abuidhail, Jamila; Shaheen, Abeer; Langer, Ana; Gausman, Jewel – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2022
Young people require good quality information about their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) while transitioning to adulthood and parents have a key role in providing it. This study intended explored Jordanian and Syrian parents' perspectives on initiating discussions about SRHR with their children. A convenience sample of Jordanian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
Ahmad, Jamal – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the fears of Jordanian children and how it related to parenting styles and demographics. The study used the quantitative methodology of a survey to examine fears of a sample of 640 Jordanian children aged 4-9 in Al-Zarqa city. Results revealed that the most specific fear was imaginary or animals. The least…
Descriptors: Fear, Anxiety, Children, Arabs
Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
BouJaoude, Saouma; Noureddine, Razan – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
The purpose of this study was to investigate if science textbooks prepare students for the twenty-first-century and if and how science and religion are depicted in science textbooks in Arab countries where religion, especially Islam, plays a role in the lives of individuals and possibly in the understandings of science. The analysis was conducted…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Science Education, Religion, Textbook Content
Barah Alallawi; Richard P. Hastings; Gemma Gray – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Cultural dimensions of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are relatively unexplored in the research literature. The current study is a systematic scoping review describing social, educational, and psychological research focused on individuals with ASD and their family members in Arab countries and cultures. Seventy studies met eligibility criteria.…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Educational Research, Psychological Studies, Social Science Research
Hashem, Reem – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2022
In 2003, the Jordanian government launched an 'education reform for knowledge economy' leadership programme in Jordanian public schools. The programme transformed school leadership structures by advocating patterns of distributed leadership. However, growing evidence in cross-cultural research shows the influence of local culture on implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Administration, Leadership Styles
Maadad, Nina; Yu, Marizon – Education and Society, 2022
This article explores the education experiences of Syrian and Iraqi refugee children, specifically girls, enrolled in high schools in Australia, Lebanon and Sweden. Symbolic interactionism frames the analysis of in-depth interviews, demonstrating the adolescent girls' ability to take perspectives on their home environment, school, community and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Females, High School Students
