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Bernsteinian Perspective On Further Marginalization Of International Students In Open And Online Learning Environment: Pedagogizing Student Centric Approaches, Syed Ali Nasir Zaidi, Atiya Razi Jun 2021

Bernsteinian Perspective On Further Marginalization Of International Students In Open And Online Learning Environment: Pedagogizing Student Centric Approaches, Syed Ali Nasir Zaidi, Atiya Razi

Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium

This paper attempted to explore the relevance of Bernstein’s (2001) critical views on the marginalization of international students in the context of emerging online learning models. It also focused on the disengaged learning patterns of marginalized international students via Bernstein’s (1990) theoretical lens of elaborated code and restrictive code, where Bernstein (2001) instructed teachers to play their vital roles in complex learning processes, which were heavy on teachers and students alike, to facilitate the healthy and successful learning trajectory. This paper used metadata via Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; Van Dijk, 2003) to construct themes from students’ …


Real Pandemic: Institutional Neglect, Goli Rezai-Rashti,, Shamiga Arumuhathas, Fengchenzi Zhao Jun 2021

Real Pandemic: Institutional Neglect, Goli Rezai-Rashti,, Shamiga Arumuhathas, Fengchenzi Zhao

Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium

The neoliberal market-reform within the Canadian tertiary education sector led to the proliferation in student mobility, which has translated to 600,000 international students (IS) over the past two decades (Scott et al., 2015; Firang, 2020), contributing to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) by $26.1 billion (IRCC, 2019). Racialized IS attending post-secondary education (PSE) in Canada accounted for systemic barriers that thereby hinder their student experience and academic outcomes. Such challenges included culture shock (Popadiuk & Arthur, 2004), linguistic speaking barriers (Guo & Guo, 2017), discrimination (Myles & Cheng, 2003; Chen & Zhou, 2019), employment exploitation (Scott et al., 2015), securing …