TY - JOUR
T1 - Transformative Pedagogy in Occupied Palestine International Student Discoveries and Awakenings
AU - Wong, Shelley
AU - Tu, Thuy
AU - Nasser, Ilham
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 International Institute of Islamic Thought.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The article reports on international student perspectives concerning transforma-tive pedagogy through their participation in field trips organized by the Palestinian and Arabic Studies Program at Birzeit University. Students visited historic, religious, and contemporary sites including a Bedouin village, mosques, market-places, the site where Jesus was baptized, a Palestinian refugee camp, and farms in the Jordan Valley. The field experience component of the Palestinian study abroad program was examined through pilgrimage curriculum, a journey of discovery to historic and sacred sites. Through analysis of interviews with students from Australia, France, Germany, and Japan, three transnational educational researchers analyzed student discoveries, awakenings, and shifting perspectives to theorize pedagogical features of transformative learning for future educational exchanges for a more just, peaceful, and inclusive world.
AB - The article reports on international student perspectives concerning transforma-tive pedagogy through their participation in field trips organized by the Palestinian and Arabic Studies Program at Birzeit University. Students visited historic, religious, and contemporary sites including a Bedouin village, mosques, market-places, the site where Jesus was baptized, a Palestinian refugee camp, and farms in the Jordan Valley. The field experience component of the Palestinian study abroad program was examined through pilgrimage curriculum, a journey of discovery to historic and sacred sites. Through analysis of interviews with students from Australia, France, Germany, and Japan, three transnational educational researchers analyzed student discoveries, awakenings, and shifting perspectives to theorize pedagogical features of transformative learning for future educational exchanges for a more just, peaceful, and inclusive world.
KW - Palestinian Arabic studies
KW - dialogic pedagogy
KW - field trips
KW - international students
KW - pilgrimage curriculum
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U2 - 10.2979/jems.3.1.05
DO - 10.2979/jems.3.1.05
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148881821
SN - 2641-0044
VL - 3
SP - 68
EP - 101
JO - Journal of Education in Muslim Societies
JF - Journal of Education in Muslim Societies
IS - 1
ER -