Description
International encounters create discursive spaces of exchange between different actors and their cultural, societal, and pedagogical perspectives. Thus, internationalisation can be seen in terms of enabling such discursive spaces to emerge creating room for alternative understandings of educational processes. These alternative perspectives draw on different societal forces and multiple discourses on intercultural exchange, international cooperation, language policies, and what ‘good’ education entails in a specific context. Internationalisation can create a space for these alternative discourses to (ex)change or even hybridise. I explore this hybridisation process on a case of a transnational education programme organised as a part of a Finnish–Palestinian university collaboration. This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated before the pandemic. Research data collected in 2017—2018 include focus group interviews and texts produced during an online pedagogical training programme with Palestinian university instructors. The study examines teaching and learning cultures as constructed by discourses in and around the Palestinian university located in the Gaza Strip. A poststructuralist discourse analysis identified five discourses of teaching and learning: disciplinary differences, traditional and modern education, improving education, sociocultural and religious context, and political and economic circumstances. The study shows that institutional teaching and learning cultures are dynamic and fragmented as they are constructed by the contrasting discourses. The findings suggest that pedagogical development initiatives need to provide spaces for discursive transformation, especially in the transnational context that introduces additional alternative discourses into the institutional cultural meaning-making.| Aikajakso | 15 jouluk. 2021 |
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| Tapahtuman otsikko | European Universities - Critical Futures Keystone Conference |
| Tapahtuman tyyppi | Conference |
| Sijainti | Copenhagen, TanskaNäytä kartalla |
| Tunnustuksen arvo | International |