Higher education challenges in Yemen: Discourses on English teacher education

Date

2014-07-01

Author

Muthanna, Abdulghani
Karaman, Abdullah Cendel

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

221
views

0
downloads

We investigated Yemen's higher education challenges by focusing on the English teacher education program. Interpretative analysis of policy statements and interviews revealed several factors that are hindering the quality of the program. Deeply aware of the socio-political dimensions impeding progress, the university lecturers shared convoluted visions for improving higher education and, in reflecting on the mission and realities of their program, voiced their quest for social justice and recognition by university administrators. The administrators acknowledged key problems in teacher education, but proposed no specific corrective measures. The findings highlight the urgent need for systemic change in Yemeni higher education.

Subject Keywords

Development, Sociology and Political Science, Education

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43077

Journal

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2014.02.002

Collections

Department of Foreign Language Education, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Democratic environment in higher education: The case of a Turkish public university ÇALIŞKAN, ÖMER; Akin, Sibel; Engin Demir, Cennet (Elsevier BV, 2020-01-01) This study describes the expectations of undergraduate students regarding the characteristics of a democratic university environment. It then goes on to explore whether there are any significant differences among the dimensions of democratic university environment, namely respect for ideas, participation in decision-making, and promotion of tolerance. Last, it examines the effects of certain variables (gender, student club attendance, newspaper reading, and home residence) on student perceptions of their un...
Curriculum reform in Turkish teacher education: Attitudes of teacher educators towards change in an EU candidate nation Grossman, Gary M.; Onkol, Pinar E.; Sands, Margaret (Elsevier BV, 2007-03-01) Educational development is one way through which Turkey enhances progress towards its social goals and prepares itself for European Union membership. A major effort to upgrade the Turkish educational system was made through a multi-phased comprehensive reform of the sector introduced during the 1990s. One part of this reform, perhaps most crucial to the long-term effectiveness of other developments in education, was a transformation of the approach to teacher education. This paper utilizes recently conducte...
Change in beliefs after first-year of teaching: The case of Turkish national curriculum context Haser, Çiğdem; Star, Jon R. (Elsevier BV, 2009-05-01) The impact of national curriculum context on mathematics related beliefs of 12 beginning middle grades mathematics teachers was investigated after the teacher education program and first-year teaching through interviews and a combination of three belief frameworks. National curriculum requirements, lack of effective mentoring programs, and preservice tutoring experiences were detected as the major factors impacting beliefs. Participants simultaneously had teacher-centered and student-centered beliefs, causi...
Challenges of primary education in Turkey: Priorities of parents and professionals Demir, Cennet Engin; Paykoc, Fersun (Elsevier BV, 2006-11-01) This article investigates the major issues and problems of Turkish society that may have an impact on people's daily lives, and the characteristics required of primary school graduates as citizens in response to those issues and problems from the perspectives of parents and educational professionals. Data was collected from 407 parents and 389 professionals using three questionnaires developed by the researchers. Results indicated that priority challenges of primary education were considered to relate to pe...
The imposition of government education policy initiatives and school enactment: uncovering the responses of school principals Arar, Khalid; Kondakçı, Yaşar; Taysum, Alison (Informa UK Limited, 2019-09-01) Rapid economic, social, political and technological changes in the external environments of education systems have put constant pressure on the internal processes and practices of educational systems. Over the last four decades, educational systems have become more and more vulnerable to economic, political and social developments. Recent global developments such as the crises in the Arab world and their impact on the refugee crisis; the Brexit crisis; and the introduction of Mercantile law by the US impact...

Citation Formats

A. Muthanna and A. C. Karaman, “Higher education challenges in Yemen: Discourses on English teacher education,” INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, pp. 40–47, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/43077.