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Branch Campus Classroom Expectations: An Ethnographic Study of Transnational Faculty and Students in Qatar ...
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Few studies have deeply and empirically described and analyzed the teaching and learning dynamic in branch campus classrooms in the Middle East, and fewer still have focused on educational technology. The purpose of this ethnographic study is to examine whether any gaps in expectations between transnational Canadian faculty and students in Qatar might be present because teacher and student participants come from different cultural backgrounds. The three research questions guiding this study pertain to a priori expectations, gaps in expectations and acculturation of expectations. Current literature on globalization, internationalization, branch campuses, transnational education, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism, culture, fundamental attribution error, and teaching and learning and educational technology in Arab Gulf nations is critically reviewed for this study. The study had four phases of data collection: (1) an initial online questionnaire about cultural differences in teaching and learning based on Hofstede’s ...
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Keyword:
acculturation; branch campus; Canada; Classroom; Cultural adaptation; Culture; Education--Bilingual and Multicultural; Education--Teacher Training; Education--Technology; Educational Technology; Ethnography; fundamental attribution error; globalization; heterogeneity; homogeneity; Instructional Design; international; large culture; learning; Middle East; Qatar; small culture; systems approach; teaching; transnational education
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/prism/25161 https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/11023/1728
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