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Muslim Female Students And Their Experiences Of Higher Education In Canada, Farzaneh Khosrojerdi
Muslim Female Students And Their Experiences Of Higher Education In Canada, Farzaneh Khosrojerdi
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Through conducting qualitative case studies on 10 Muslim female students in Canadian universities and drawing on theories of third-wave feminism, post-colonial feminism, and anti-racist feminism, this research explores the experiences of Canadian Muslim female university students. It explores how gender, race, ethnicity, and religion, and their intersection, impact Muslim female students’ identity construction and their overall experiences of higher education in Canada. This research investigates Muslim female students’ perceptions of, and reactions towards, the prevailing stereotypes about Muslim women in Canadian universities. It also explores how Muslim female university students perceive the hijab and wearing it in Canadian universities. The …
Academic Literacies As Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts, Ani Amirmooradian Malhami
Academic Literacies As Documenting Becoming Through Mixed Genre Texts, Ani Amirmooradian Malhami
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The research for this study began with certain poststructural and postmodern readings and philosophical inflections that suggested, in various ways, that subjectivities are fluid, multiple, and complex. I arrived at the idea that one way of capturing the complexities of subjectivities is documenting becoming; this insight, in turn, led me to investigate the literature on academics who experience problems with representing, and on models of writing in higher education. However, the literature does not locate either the problem of representing or its resolution in the practices of academics struggling to write about the world in and through their subjectivities. …