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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
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Fayadh Hamed Alanazi; Mustafa Ali Khalaf; Mohammed Saleh Alzamil; Abdo Noman M. Almufti – Journal of Turkish Science Education, 2023
This study investigates the perceptions of a sample of Arab science teachers pertaining to the cultural factors affecting pupils learning processes in three Arab countries. A randomly sampled group of 169 science teachers from the three countries comprised the participants, Egypt (N=37), Yemen (N=53), and Saudi Arabia (N=79). A questionnaire…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
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Alghamdi Hamdan, Amani K.; Aldossari, Ali Tared – Issues in Educational Research, 2021
Ongoing global crises, including climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, have made Saudi Arabia recognise the importance of moving away from its oil-dependent economy. This inaugural, exploratory study focused on female postgraduate students who, in addition to striving for intellectual growth and development, are shouldering a social obligation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Females, Debate
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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
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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
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Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa; Alhazmi, Ahmed Ali; Alsubaie, Merfat Ayesh; Alzahrani, Saleh; Bukhamseen, Amani Mohammed; Aldoughan, Eman Abdulaziz; Almudhafar, Fuad Ahmed; Maher, Eman Ahmed; Al-Abdullatif, Ahlam Mohammed; Kotb, Ahmed Abdel hamed; Amira, Mostafa Samy; Al Khateeb, Ebrahem Abdullah; Alshehri, Layla Abdulrahman; Aldoomi, Raed Ali Bani; Al Dafar, Awatef Abdulaziz; Alarfaj, Maher Mohammed; Alholiby, Mossab Saud; Mahgoub, Yassir Mohammed; Boreqqah, Abeer Abdulmohsen; Ali, Asma Margeni; Al-Sababha, Khairi Mahmoud; Al Youssef, Ibrahim Youssef; Abouzaid, Enam Mohammed; Ali, Hasnaa Hamdy; Batal, Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed; Alhassan, Omer Musa; Ibrahim Atta, Ibrahim; Alqatam, Mohammed Ahmed; Al-Aqtash, Ala'a Yahya; Alshoura, Mohammad Ahmad; Selim, Hossam Saad; Abdelrahman, Mohmed Abdelmoneim; Bahrawi, Atef Abdalla; Alarfaj, Abdulhamid Abdullah; Aladsani, Abdullah Mohammed; Almaiah, Mohammed Amin; Ata, Sobhi Noureldin; Hamad, Nahid Hassan; Hamad, Awatif Mahmoud; Elsherif, Khaled Hassan; Ahmed, Mohammed Keshar; El-Zeki, Ahmed Abdelfattah; Elrefee, Enas Mahmoud; Ali, Abeer Farouk; Melhem, Tareq Yousef; Alsaeed, Maha Saad; Hegazy, Ahmed Zakaria; Alhuwaiji, Khalel Ibrahim; Ahmed, Hatem Tawfik; Alboray, Hanem Mostafa; Hassan, Marwa Mohamed; Alnoer, Lubna Noaman; Elmorsy, Ghada Nasr Huisen; El Koshiry, Amr Mohamed – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
This piece theorises the limitations of transitioning reflection from individualistic to participatory practice. It addresses the question: what are the challenges of introducing crowd-reflecting into Arab academia? To answer this question, 140 Arabs from an academic organisation were invited to crowd-reflect, online, on their institution, using a…
Descriptors: Arabs, Barriers, Cultural Influences, Reflection
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Alsswey, Ahmed; Al-Samarraie, Hosam – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The simplicity and minimal cost of mobile phones make them more suitable for use among students and educators across the world. The integration of mobile technology in a university context has been found to provide a superior learning environment compared to the traditional classroom lecture. Yet, there are several challenges that may delay the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Adoption (Ideas)
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Abeer Shujaa Alharbi – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2024
This research investigates impediments to the successful implementation of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Saudi English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Going beyond typical discussions on teacher training and curriculum development, the study explores entrenched resistance stemming from traditional teaching methods among teachers…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Usage, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alshehri, Asmaa; Alasmari, Muhammad; Qasem, Fawaz; Ahmed, Rashad – Arab World English Journal, 2022
Developing a writer's voice is a challenging task for second-language writers who are new not only to the culture but also to the values associated with the target language. This study aims at exploring the writer's voice of Arabic-speaking learners who study English as a Second Language. The study mainly discusses the following question: Do L2…
Descriptors: Arabs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Song, Juyoung – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article examines Saudi female students' socialization process in mixed-gender interactions during their study abroad, focusing on how they negotiate culture-specific gender expectations of women's deference and modesty. Findings reveal that Saudi women's deference to maintaining an ideal image of Saudi womanhood makes shyness and fear of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Socialization, Study Abroad
Saad, Mourad Ali Eissa; Borowska-Beszta, Beata – International Journal of Psycho-Educational Sciences, 2019
The phenomena of disabilities in the Arab world can be viewed from various perspectives, considering historical times, epistemological programmes and theoretical models. This article is a theoretical review and comparative data analysis of the problems regarding the evolution of attitudes and current concept of disability and theoretical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Arabs, Comparative Analysis, Caring
Eissa Saad, Mourad Ali; Borowska-Beszta, Beata – Online Submission, 2019
The phenomena of disabilities in the Arab world can be viewed from various perspectives, considering historical times, epistemological programmes and theoretical models. This article is a theoretical review and comparative data analysis of the problems regarding the evolution of attitudes and current concept of disability and theoretical…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Arabs, Comparative Analysis, Caring
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Islam, Samira I. – World Journal of Education, 2017
In most countries of the world, 40 to 50 % of students are women. However, there is greater sex imbalance in STEM fields. Indicators show that tertiary education in Arab region is high compared with gender balance in several countries; there is even imbalance in favor of women as in Saudi Arabia & Gulf States. UNESCO and World Bank statistics…
Descriptors: Arabs, STEM Education, Females, Womens Education
Sendi, Kholod – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Although there are a significant number of Saudi females pursuing graduate degrees in Saudi Arabia and abroad, few studies have examined their educational experiences. This qualitative multi-case study examines the educational experiences of ten Saudi females who graduated with a master's degree in an English language related field in two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Females, Self Concept, Educational Experience
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Abid, Samar A.; Apancatl-Ibarra, Edgar; Wanger, Stephen P. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2017
The effects of globalization have been studied, mainly, from a corporatization perspective (Kleypas and & McDougal 2012) and have used classic economic and academic capitalism theories (Walker 2009), and administrative theoretical frameworks (Barrow, Didou-Aupetit, and Mallea 2003). Such views have contributed to the widespread adoption of a…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Models, Student Attitudes, Commercialization
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