Nazmi Abdel-Salam Al-Masri

• PhD
• Professor at Islamic University of Gaza

Purpose Student engagement evaluation is considered to be connected to many aspects of the management of higher education, but outside Western higher education, research and evaluation on student engagement and experiences has been limited so far. Our study focuses on the underexplored aspects of Palestinian higher education with the aim of gaining...

Trying to contribute in promoting social justice, equity andequality in inclusive society, this study explored intersectoralchallenges and negative feelings experienced by Palestinianswith disability during COVID-19 pandemic in besieged andconflict-stricken Gaza, Palestine. It involved two focus groupdiscussions and six individual interviews that i...

This descriptive-analytical study used thematic analysis within a sociocultural semiotic approach to explore how violence against Palestinian women is semiotically represented in short Palestinian films. Using desk research and two-day focus group discussions with 17 participants, the study analysed a sample of four films, selected out of 270 surve...

This study reflects on an intensive fiction-writing training course conducted at the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) in Palestine. The trainees were divided into two language-specific groups. The immediate outcome of this training course was 87 short stories. The study assessed the participants' satisfaction levels regarding the quality and conten...

What we know about the development of online teaching expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic is scarce. Current research has concentrated primarily on the obstacles encountered by university teachers, leaving a significant gap in our understanding of the strategies they employ not only to survive but to flourish in online teaching. Furthermore, the...

This literature review provides understanding of the concept of deinstitutionalisation and addresses potential positive impacts and challenges associated with the deinstitutionalisation of people with disabilities in different contexts, mainly in Europe and the USA. It also culturally and critically surveys the existing Palestinian policies pertain...

As a commitment to promoting social justice and building inclusive society, this study aimed to critically review Palestinian policies and practices that are supposed to support the right of students with different disabilities to access Palestinian higher education institutions (PHEIs) located in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs). To ach...

As a commitment to promoting social justice and building inclusive society, this study aimed to review Palestinian policies and practices that support the right of students different disabilities to access inclusive higher education (IHE). To achieve this aim, four data collection tools were used: email correspondence, two focus group discussions i...

In this article we discuss the outcomes of a project which taught Arabic as a ‘refugee language’ to primary school staff so they could welcome Arabic speaking children and families. The project was grounded in a commitment to social justice and inclusive education practices, and in an understanding of integration as a two-way process. The evaluatio...

As part of the Culture for Inclusive and Sustainable Peace (CUSP) Grant Scheme funded by United Kingdom (UK) Government's Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), this semiotic analytic study explores how violence against Palestinian women is semiotically represented in the four selected films: Salt of this sea, Roof Knocking, Hajez, and Today they...

Purpose The aim of this study is to explore the extent to which a transnational pedagogical training affected university teachers' approaches to teaching, as well as their efficacy beliefs and cultural perceptions, and to examine how such training could stimulate teachers' pedagogical-development processes beyond the specific context. Design/metho...

Book Description: This collection lends a critical decolonising lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises. The book draws on case studies from a...

This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews and texts produced during a pedagogical training program with Palestinian university instructors. The study...

This literature review is part of the project ‘Disability Under the Siege’, a programme bringing together a community of researchers, educational practitioners, cultural institutions, advocacy organisations and disability led groups in the UK and Middle East. The project aims to contribute to research efforts by providing intellectual and logistica...

The online workshop brought together more than 100 teachers and administrative staff from the partner universities of the Cluster coming from Switzerland, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran, Palestine, Morocco, and Egypt. The participants had the great opportunity to interact with you and the other two experts and could discuss the challenges and the best practi...

This paper explores the possibilities and challenges of using the social media tool WhatsApp to support language teacher development in the Zataari refugee camp in Jordan. It takes a sociocultural perspective on teacher development where WhatsApp is a mediating tool in the broader sociocultural landscape. A thematic analysis of the postings and exc...

The following link https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.21832/9781788929608/html#contents can be used to download this Introduction from this book: Fassetta, G. , Al-Masri, N. and Phipps, A. (Eds.) (2020) Multilingual Online Academic Collaborations as Resistance: Crossing Impassable Borders. Series: Researching multilingually. Multilingu...

This book details online academic collaborations between universities in Europe, the USA and Palestine. The chapters recount the challenges and successes of online collaborations which promote academic connections and conversations with the Gaza Strip, despite a continuing blockade imposed on Gaza since 2007, and forge relationships between individ...

This article discusses the process of negotiating the storyline for videos developed as part of an online Arabic language course. The project was guided by a social-justice-through-education agenda, explicitly aiming to redress the high unemployment rate of language graduates in the Gaza Strip. We illustrate how the international team designing the...

The aim of the research is to explore Teaching and Learning Regimes (TLRs) in a higher education institution located in Gaza Strip in Palestinian Territories. TLRs are an analytical tool to explore existing cultures of teaching, learning and assessment in higher education. Our research focuses particularly on four components of TLRs: recurrent prac...

Only a few studies have examined work cultures, teaching approaches and self-efficacy beliefs of academic teachers outside Europe, North America, and Asia. This mixed-method study investigated the following research questions: 1) What kinds of approaches to teaching and self-efficacy beliefs can be identified among academics in the selected Palesti...

This paper investigates a small-scale project concerned with establishing and sustaining an e-partnership between international students in the UK and engineering students in Palestine. It focuses on the value of peer teaching and learning as an attempt to ensure a greater balance between knowledge and language on a UK pre-sessional English languag...

This article discusses an action research study that involved the design and delivery of an online training course for teachers of Arabic to speakers of other languages in the Gaza Strip (Palestine). Grounded in Freirean pedagogy, the course aimed to respond to the employment needs of university graduates by creating opportunities for online langua...

في ظل التعاطف الشعبي العربي والإسلامي والدولي مع أهل غزة المحاصرين لأكثر من عشر سنين، وزيادة الإقبال الدولي الملحوظ على تعلُّم اللغة العربية كلغة أجنبية ، لأهداف سياسية واقتصادية ودينية وثقافية وأدبية وسياحية وغيرها، وتطور وتنوع نظريات ومدارس إعداد معلمي اللغات الأجنبية وسرعة انتشار التقنيات الحديثة، بادرت الجامعة الإسلامية بغزة -فلسطين- عام 2012 و...

This chapter explores the values and goals of English language education in the context of the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, has been subject to siege for over ten years, with significant restrictions on mobility and three wars resulting in considerable loss of life and infrastructure, increasing poverty and r...

إن الإستثمار في الموارد الشبابية الفلسطينية للعمل عن بعد هو أفضل إستثمارإستراتيجي يناسب واقعنا الإجتماعي والإقتصادي والسياسي والجغرافي. وبالتأكيد يتطلب هذا الإستثمار إعداد خطة وطنية لتطوير وتحديث جذري للجامعات و الكليات و الأقسام والتخصصات والمناهج وأساليب مهارات التعليم والتدريب في جامعاتنا وإعداد بنية تحتية معلوماتية قوية وموسعة ونشر ثقافة العمل...

This presentation is a reflection on the process of developing a situated language teacher education programme in Teaching Arabic to speakers of Other Languages (TASOL) informed by a human ecological approach (Phipps & Levine 2012). In a human ecological view on language learning, the speaker's ability or inability to communicate, learn or 'flouris...

How can technology be best-harnessed to innovate pedagogical approaches to curriculum design and delivery, in order to enhance university students’ learning experience? This article looks at this question from the perspective of an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course, and reports on a number of technology-enabled interventions to the design...

UK universities rely increasingly on the fees paid by overseas students, whose numbers have grown significantly in the past 20 years. Many of these students enter via pre-sessional courses, which combine language development with work on study skills and acculturation into academic life. Peak student-intake falls naturally in July and August, when...

Palestinian National Authority Ministry of Education General Administration of Curricula English Language Curriculum for Public Schools: Grades 1-12 New Edition 2015

The chapter is intended for primary and secondary school teachers who are currently teaching English as a foreign language or plan to do so. The content will focus on the essentials in language teaching methodology and practical classroom applications: syllabus design and implementation, classroom techniques and activities, communicative abilities...

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This paper discusses how a variety of educational technologies can be used to develop pre-service English language teachers' linguistic proficiency and teaching competence. The discussion is based on a 16-week academic course entitled " Technology for Teaching English ". The course included 81 Palestinian participants who are 3rd-year university st...

Evaluating English for Palestine Grade 9: Reading Texts & Exercises Nazmi Abdul-Salam Al-Masri & Nai'ma Mosa Ali The Islamic University of Gaza Abstract This study aimed at evaluating the reading texts and exercises in student book (SB) and workbook (WB) of English for Palestine-Grade 9 in order to identify the areas of weaknesses in these readin...

This study aims at assessing the three study plans (programmes) for preparing teachers of Arabic, English, science and mathematics at Gaza universities: the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), Al-Aqsa University (AQU) and Al-Azhar University. The analytical descriptive method is used to achieve this aim using different tools to collect and analyse da...

يهدف المسرد إلى توفير لغة مشترآة متفق عليها، وتعزيز الحوار المنتج بين الدول المشارآة في المشروع في مجال التعليم والتدريب المهني والتقني، ليشكل ذلك أساسا للانطلاق في مشاريع تعاون مشترآة أخرى، وقد وضع هذا المسرد ليكون مرجعا للعاملين في الميدان وأصحاب الاختصاص، والمدربين، ولم يقصد منه أن يكون مرجعا أكاديميا فقط يحتفظ به في المكتبات ومراآز البحث العلمي...

One of the commonly used learning management systems that can facilitate the teaching­learning process is the WebCT (Web Course Tool). The WebCT has several tools (such as email, discussion board and links). This paper discusses how different WebCT tools can be used to develop an effective TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) course for fo...

This book is designed to provide a practical guide to the process of writing research papers in the field of language and literature. It leads English department students through the step-by-step process of writing research papers, from the initial research skills of choosing a topic searching sources and taking notes to the skills of drafting, cit...