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  • Exploring supports and constraints to school counselors’ practices through Q-methodology research 

    Chaaban, Youmen; Alkhateeb, Hadeel; Al-Ahmadi, Aisha ( Springer , 2025 , Article)
    This Q study explored the systems of influence on 24 male career counselors’ practices in Qatari public schools along intrapersonal, relational, and contextual dimensions. Results revealed three perspectives, which differed ...

  • Institutional and Socio-Cultural Factors that Influence the Wellbeing of Women Working in Academia in Arab Countries: A Scoping Review 

    G.F., Al Jayyousi-Alsalim; D., Alsayed Hassan; S.M., Khaled; M, Zolezzi; L., O'Hara; ... more authors ( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2024 , Article Review)
    Academic life in the present era is subject to several occupational stressors, including increased workloads, reduced research funding, tenuous career paths, and family-work conflicts. Such stressors affect academics' ...

  • Why Qatar's hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup matters 

    Bouandel, Youcef; Amara, Mahfoud ( Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. , 2024 , Book chapter)
    The aim of this chapter is to describe the importance of the FIFA 2022 World Cup for Qatar and for the region, bridging between inside-outsider perspectives. A lot have been written and said about this mega event being ...

  • The 2022 FIFA world cup in Qatar: Global and local perspectives 

    Kozhanov, Nikolay; Amara, Mahfoud; Zweiri, Mahjoob ( Taylor and Francis , 2024 , Book)
    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. The first World Cup to be held in the Middle East, this was a unique sporting mega-event, and this book explores its wider significance across ...

  • Leveraging sentiment analysis of Arabic Tweets for the 2022 FIFA World Cup insights, incorporating the gulf region 

    Ishac, Wadih; Javani, Vajiheh; Youssef, Daoud ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2024 , Article)
    Purpose: The study analyzes Arabic Tweets, with a focus on those originating from the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, to examine public perceptions of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Methodology: Twitter's search API was ...

  • Qatar Residents' Perceptions of the 2022 FIFA World Cup: Projections for Future Co-hosting Countries 

    Ishac, Wadih; Swart, Kamilla; Mollazehi, Mohammad ( Africa Journals , 2022 , Article)
    The study examines Qatar residents' perceptions associated with the 2022 FIFA World Cup by assessing the five dimensions of psychic income. Six months before the event, data were collected from the host city residents ...

  • From values to action: the role of personal and social values in shaping K−12 teachers' wellbeing and professional outcomes 

    Al- Thani, Hessa; Santhosh, Malavika E.; Al-Dosari, Mashael ( Frontiers Media , 2025 , Article)
    This systematic review explores the values upheld by K−12 teachers, examining their impact on teachers' wellbeing and their professional outcomes. Anchored in Schwartz's theory of human values, this study investigates the ...

  • Virtual Frontiers in STEM Education: A Systematic Review and SWOT Analysis of Virtual Reality-Based Interventions at the Preparatory School Level 

    Kamal Naji, Khalid; Al-Ali, Abdulla; Ayari, Mohamed Arselene; Santhosh, Malavika E.; Naji ,Abdellatif Khalid Kamal; ... more authors ( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Article)
    This systematic review explores the potential of virtual reality-(VR)-based interventions in preparatory-level STEM education, incorporating Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis for a comprehensive ...

  • Aquatic Plyometric Drills for Children 

    Konukman, Ferman; Sortwell, Andrew; Filiz, Bijen; Tüfekçioglu ,Ertan; Hermassi, Souhail ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2025 , Article)
    Aquatic plyometric drills for children offer a promising avenue for promoting physical fitness and skill development. By following the guidelines recommended in this article, physical educators and coaches can ensure safe ...

  • Pathways to STEM Identity: High School Students' Perceptions in Qatar 

    Sellami, Abdellatif; Santhosh, Malavika E; Michaleczek, Igor ( Frontiers Media , 2025 , Article)
    Introduction This study delves into the intricate relationship between various constructs of student identity formation, which helps comprehend their subsequent impact on students' interest and persistence in Science, ...

  • Problematising PBL in Higher Education in GGC Countries: The Case of Qatar 

    Chaaban, Youmen; Al-Thani, Hessa; Du, Xiangyun ( Springer Nature , 2025 , Book chapter)
    In this chapter, we use Foucault’s problematisation approach to analyse the ways in which the concept of Problem- and Project-based Learning (PBL) is constructed and contested within the GCC higher education context, with ...

  • Teaching Sustainability in Qatar: Challenges for Teacher Readiness 

    Bruder, Jennifer; Hamwy, Noor; Sellami, Abdellatif; Romanowski, Michael H. ( Springer Nature , 2025 , Book chapter)
    The core obstacle in imparting knowledge about sustainability lies in teachers’ readiness, which encompasses an internal motivation and commitment towards sustainability, adequate knowledge, and teaching techniques, as ...

  • University students’ use and metalinguistic understanding of code glosses: A cross-linguistic study of students’ L1 Arabic and L2 English argumentative writing 

    Ahmed, Abdelhamid M.; Rezk, Lameya M. ( Elsevier , 2025 , Article)
    This study investigates the use of interactive metadiscourse markers, known as code glosses, in argumentative texts produced by Qatari university students writing in both their L1 Arabic and L2 English. An analysis of 390 ...

  • Accreditation and the Standardization of Syllabi: Critical Reflections from the College of Education at Qatar University 

    Al-Muftah, Esraa; Alkhateeb, Hadeel ( Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. , 2020 , Book chapter)
    Scholars studying international accreditation practices traditionally assess the successes and failures of such programs (e.g., Collins, 2015; Altbach & Knight, 2007). Still, others investigate the reasons behind the spread ...

  • Active learning engagement in teacher preparation programmes - A comparative study from Qatar, Lebanon and China 

    Du, Xiangyun; Chaaban, Youmen; Sabah, Saed; Al-Thani, Alanood Mubarak; Wang, Li ( Routledge , 2020 , Article)
    This study investigated student teachers' preferred active learning strategies, and those which they actually received during their teacher preparation programmes. An explanatory mixed methods research design was adopted, ...

  • The effect of family literacy programs on the development of children's early literacy in kindergarten settings 

    Ihmeideh, Fathi; Al-Maadadi, Fatima ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)
    The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of family literacy programs on developing kindergarten children's early literacy skills in Qatar. Three hundred and twenty kindergarten children (166 girls and 154 ...

  • Exploring research ethics through the lens of critical posthumanism in the age of Artificial Intelligence 

    Chaaban, Youmen ( Taylor and Francis Group , 2025 , Article)
    Drawing on critical posthumanism, I attempt to theorize an alternative, non-linear conceptualization of graduate students’ experiences with AI ethics in the context of an educational research methodology course. The ...

  • Forms of implementation and challenges of PBL in engineering education: a review of literature 

    Chen, Juebei; Kolmos, Anette; Du, Xiangyun ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2021 , Article)
    During the last 40 years, problem- and project-based learning (PBL) has been widely adopted in engineering education because of its expected effectiveness in developing students' professional knowledge and transferable ...

  • Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 

    Michael, Brauer; Roth, Gregory A; Aravkin, Aleksandr Y; Zheng, Peng; Abate, Kalkidan Hassen; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd. , 2024 , Article)
    Background: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to ...

  • Middle and High School Students’ Attitudes towardDistance Education: The Case of Qatar 

    Alshaboul, Y. M.; Abu-shawish, R. K.; Alazaizeh, M. A. ( ASR Research India , 2022 , Article)
    Countries worldwide have been facing an unprecedented virus that viciously sweptthroughout society, drastically changing everyday life. Governments enforced new safety measures to protect their citizens; many ...

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