Contradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university

This study explores six cases of non-native English speaking students engaged in a distance English-medium course on critical thinking at a university in Iran. Framed within activity theory, the study investigated students’ course-related activity systems with a particular focus on contradictions t...

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Autores principales:	Irshat Madyarov, Aida Taef
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Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2012
Materias:	activity theory contradictions open distance English as a foreign language Middle East Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fc8cd5b11a7c4c5483c817863d53819c2021-12-02T19:26:10ZContradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university10.19173/irrodl.v13i2.11801492-3831https://doaj.org/article/fc8cd5b11a7c4c5483c817863d53819c2012-04-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1180https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 This study explores six cases of non-native English speaking students engaged in a distance English-medium course on critical thinking at a university in Iran. Framed within activity theory, the study investigated students’ course-related activity systems with a particular focus on contradictions that underlie any human activity. The construct of contradictions provides a theoretical lens to understand a web of relationships among a number of elements in course-related activities situated in a cultural-historical setting beset with political controversies, technological challenges, and needs for a bilingual curriculum. The findings indicate that all student participants had multiple activity systems within the course environment. Most participants had primary, secondary, and quaternary contradictions that had positive and negative consequences on the expansion of their activity systems. Discussion also includes practical implications for the distance university under study that could potentially be applied to similar distance schools. Irshat MadyarovAida TaefAthabasca University Pressarticleactivity theorycontradictionsopendistanceEnglish as a foreign languageMiddle EastSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 13, Iss 2 (2012)
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description	This study explores six cases of non-native English speaking students engaged in a distance English-medium course on critical thinking at a university in Iran. Framed within activity theory, the study investigated students’ course-related activity systems with a particular focus on contradictions that underlie any human activity. The construct of contradictions provides a theoretical lens to understand a web of relationships among a number of elements in course-related activities situated in a cultural-historical setting beset with political controversies, technological challenges, and needs for a bilingual curriculum. The findings indicate that all student participants had multiple activity systems within the course environment. Most participants had primary, secondary, and quaternary contradictions that had positive and negative consequences on the expansion of their activity systems. Discussion also includes practical implications for the distance university under study that could potentially be applied to similar distance schools.
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title	Contradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university
title_short	Contradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university
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Contradictions in a distance course for a marginalized population at a Middle Eastern university

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