Negin Dahya

University of Washington Seattle | UW · Information School

RÉSUMÉ Alors que la pandémie de COVID-19 persiste, la collecte de données de recherche qualitative dans des milieux difficiles d’accès reste semée d’embûches. Cet article présente la méthodologie développée dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage sur et par les technologies au sein de la communauté de personnes...

The focus of this project is to understand the ways in which teaching, learning, and technology interact in/dependently in the daily lives of refugee people in Dzaleka Refugee Camp at home, in the community, and at school. Distinctly, we are asking questions about the role of technology in the everyday lives of refugee people in Dzaleka, and specif...

Policy makers, advocates and scholars have long concentrated on the importance of equal access to primary and secondary education as a foundation for a democratic and just society. Despite the growing importance of higher and specialist education in an increasingly technological and skill-focused global market, tertiary education has attracted much...

This paper addresses the role of instant messaging chat groups to support teacher training and gender equity initiatives in Kenyan refugee camps. Our findings are based on survey data with refugee teachers in Dadaab and Kakuma refugee camps (n = 203), group interviews with refugee teachers in Kakuma (n = 21), and interviews with international instr...

This study identifies pathways to educational success among refugees. Data are from an original online survey of Somali diaspora and in-depth qualitative interviews with Somali refugee students educated in the Dadaab refugee camps of Kenya. This research builds on Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model to consider both the locally and globally situated...

In this paper, we explore the role of online social networks in the cultivation of pathways to higher education for refugees, particularly for women. We compare supports garnered in local and offline settings to those accrued through online social networks and examine the differences between women and men. The paper draws on complementary original...

TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY: AN INQUIRY INTO HYBRID PEDAGOGIES IN HIGHER EDUCATION J. Jenson ¹, N. Dahya ², M. Sengara ¹ 1York University (CANADA) 2University of Washington (UNITED STATES) Hybrid, or blended teaching and learning – where courses are delivered with both face-to-face (F2F) and online elements – is quickly becoming the new norm in High...

This introduction to the special issue Voice and representation in youth media production in educational settings: transnational dialogues presents a discussion of the notions of voice and representation and an overview of the contributions to this issue, and reflects on the possibilities and limits for a transnational dialogue within current acade...

This paper offers a critical discussion on voice and representation in youth digital media production in educational settings. The paper builds on existing calls from digital media and visual studies scholars to approach youth-made media with greater attention to context in production practices. In this discussion, the author addresses the importan...

In this article, the authors discuss findings from a digital media production club with racialized girls in a low-income school in Toronto, Ontario. Specifically, the authors consider how student-produced media is impacted by ongoing postcolonial structures relating to power and representation in the school and in the media production work of Musli...

While student engagement plays a central role in the education process, defining it is challenging. This study examines teachers' conceptions of the social and cultural dimensions of student engagement in learning at three low-achieving schools located in a low socioeconomic status (SES) urban area. Sixteen teachers and administrators from the thre...

In this paper, we identify how and why digital media production can contribute to the active participation of children in education and also consider how much of the existing work in this area is framed as a ‘miraculous’ answer to educational challenges without critical interrogation of either the process or product. To begin, we identify some of t...

This paper discusses the significance of conducting respectful research within urban schools, using the example of one large-scale university–school board partnership in northwestern Toronto. The authors, three research assistants on the project, use their experiences within three of the participating schools to interrogate the research approach an...