Anwar Ahmed
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anwar Ahmed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anwar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmed |
| SIGNATURE | AHMED A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5883-3238 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Exploring the transformative potential of duoethnography for critical language teaching
This paper explores the transformative potential of duoethnography for critical language studies in settings of ethnolinguistic diversity. In duoethnography, two researchers juxtapose their experiences in a dialogic manner, seeking critical understanding that would otherwise not be available through individual self-reflection. Such understanding requires openness, trust, and respect for diverse ways of knowing, and a willingness to reexamine and …
Initial Teacher Education and the Emotional Geography of Languages: A conceptual intervention
The article addresses a key challenge faced by Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs: how to reconcile the growing multilingual reality of society with the limited adoption of multilingualism in educational practice. It begins by providing an overview of ITE and some of its challenges. It then examines the importance of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA), which emphasizes multilingualism as essential for equity and inclusion in li…
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration
This article addresses the research-practice divide in education, with a particular focus on language teacher education. In line with this special issue, we see disciplinary value in the concept of “nexus” to describe the dynamic relationship between research and practice, offering a more nuanced framework than traditional dichotomies. After introducing the notion of nexus, we briefly explore the distinction between education and education al res…
Health behavior profiles and association with mental health status among US active-duty service members
Introduction: This study investigated the clustering of health behaviors among US active duty servicemembers (ADSM) into risk profiles and explored the association between these profiles with ADSM sociodemographic characteristics and mental health status. Methods: This study utilized secondary data from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS), a Department of Defense (DoD) self-administered online survey. Health behaviors included physica…
Distractive language education policies and the endangerment of Indigenous languages in Bangladesh
Focusing on language education policies in Bangladesh, this article shows how the policies have distracted people's attention from the harms inflicted on the country's Indigenous communities and their languages. I discuss two factors that have contributed to policy distractions in this context: a strong form of Bangla linguistic nationalism and a neoliberal approach to English language teaching. To address the problem of language education policy…
Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing
Teaching the Nation(s): A Duoethnography on Affect and Citizenship in a Content‐Based EAP Program
The plurality of nation in this title foregrounds the challenge of teaching a geopolitical entity whose survival depends on building emotional ties of belonging. These ties can be problematic in diverse societies in which collective identities compete for recognition. In Canada, nationhood tied to language and culture is claimed by French‐speaking Quebecers; it is also invoked by many Western‐Canadian politicians to express a growing alienation f…
Withdrawn: Circulation of dengue virus serotypes in hyperendemic region of New Delhi, India during 2011-2017
Opportunities for investment in the societal values provided by Sanjay Gandhi National Park, India
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), surrounded by the megacity of Mumbai, India, is subject to high anthropogenic pressures. However, it constitutes an important 'green lung' and water source, supporting biodiversity, tourism, recreation, and additional benefits both locally and remotely. To safeguard and enhance the park ecosystem, there is a need to recognise and demonstrate the diversity of values associated with these multiple benefits, ident…
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the "Women Empowered" approach
Emotions in the curriculum of migrant and refugee students
Emotions are often used to categorize migrant and refugee populations, and to place them into particular subject positions. In much of the literature on the education of migrant and refugee students, emotions are viewed through a therapeutic lens. Against this backdrop, I argue that curriculum inquiries need to pay more sustained attention to how emotions are generated and circulated through complex discursive practices and to their potential imp…
Shifting borders and sinking ships: What (and who) is transnationalism “good” for
Use of Skin-Whitening Products by Sudanese Undergraduate Females: A Survey
The effects of age and gender on the prevalence of insomnia in a sample of the Saudi population
Insomnia is most prevalent among Saudi females and the elderly Saudi population
Slipping around in curriculum studies: (Re)views from new scholars
There are multiple ways of apprehending the current state of an amorphous field-like curriculum studies. While none of them can give us a comprehensive view, some perspectives shed different light
ICT and Language Teacher Development in the Global South: A New Materialist Discourse Analysis
In this article, I present insights from a discourse analytic study in which I examined publications that emerged from a teacher development program in Bangladesh. The program, known as English in Action, utilizes information and communication technologies to deliver professional development activities to English-language teachers. Now in its 8th year, the program claims great success in developing teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and capacity. Th…
Why critical literacy should turn to 'the affective turn: Making a Case for Critical Affective Literacy
The central argument of this essay is that critical literacy with a rationalistic bent may not enable us to cope with ethical dilemmas in our responsiveness to human sufferings. I argue that critical literacy education would benefit from turning to the recent scholarship on affect/emotion studies. I draw upon the works of Sara Ahmed – one of the leading contributors to critical affect studies – to shed light on what is called a regulatory power t…
Religious pluralism in school curriculum: A dangerous idea or a necessity
Few topics raise into relief the tensions and contradictions that haunt liberal democracies more than religious pluralism. For instance, the ironies of how core liberal values, like freedom of expr
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Pedagogy of Ignorance
In this article I discuss how Jacques Rancière’s thought invites us to re-conceptualize the education–emancipation nexus. The primary goal of traditional approaches to emancipatory and anti-oppressive education has been to empower the oppressed so that the latter can (re)gain their voice and transform their situations. Building on Rancière’s ideas, I argue that the processes of empowering the oppressed imply that one has the power to empower the …
The Informal Financial Sector in Bangladesh: An Appraisal of its Role in Development - A Comment
Why critical literacy should turn to 'the affective turn: Making a Case for Critical Affective Literacy
The central argument of this essay is that critical literacy with a rationalistic bent may not enable us to cope with ethical dilemmas in our responsiveness to human sufferings. I argue that critical literacy education would benefit from turning to the recent scholarship on affect/emotion studies. I draw upon the works of Sara Ahmed – one of the leading contributors to critical affect studies – to shed light on what is called a regulatory power t…
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the "Women Empowered" approach
Emotions in the curriculum of migrant and refugee students
Emotions are often used to categorize migrant and refugee populations, and to place them into particular subject positions. In much of the literature on the education of migrant and refugee students, emotions are viewed through a therapeutic lens. Against this backdrop, I argue that curriculum inquiries need to pay more sustained attention to how emotions are generated and circulated through complex discursive practices and to their potential imp…
ICT and Language Teacher Development in the Global South: A New Materialist Discourse Analysis
In this article, I present insights from a discourse analytic study in which I examined publications that emerged from a teacher development program in Bangladesh. The program, known as English in Action, utilizes information and communication technologies to deliver professional development activities to English-language teachers. Now in its 8th year, the program claims great success in developing teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and capacity. Th…
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Use of Skin-Whitening Products by Sudanese Undergraduate Females: A Survey
Pedagogy of Ignorance
In this article I discuss how Jacques Rancière’s thought invites us to re-conceptualize the education–emancipation nexus. The primary goal of traditional approaches to emancipatory and anti-oppressive education has been to empower the oppressed so that the latter can (re)gain their voice and transform their situations. Building on Rancière’s ideas, I argue that the processes of empowering the oppressed imply that one has the power to empower the …
Distractive language education policies and the endangerment of Indigenous languages in Bangladesh
Focusing on language education policies in Bangladesh, this article shows how the policies have distracted people's attention from the harms inflicted on the country's Indigenous communities and their languages. I discuss two factors that have contributed to policy distractions in this context: a strong form of Bangla linguistic nationalism and a neoliberal approach to English language teaching. To address the problem of language education policy…
Religious pluralism in school curriculum: A dangerous idea or a necessity
Few topics raise into relief the tensions and contradictions that haunt liberal democracies more than religious pluralism. For instance, the ironies of how core liberal values, like freedom of expr
The Informal Financial Sector in Bangladesh: An Appraisal of its Role in Development - A Comment
Returning to Our Pasts, Engaging Difficult Knowledge, and Transforming Social Justice
Our dilemma of representing concepts through the use of these words emerges as a result of the expansion and contestation of meanings and manifestations of the concept due to inevitable subjectivity of human understanding and the spread of discourses about justice. We are aware that justice is a social construct that reflects a basic human instinct or ideal of fair treatment and access to rights and opportunities. At the same time, we recognize t…
Pedagogy of Ignorance
In this article I discuss how Jacques Rancière’s thought invites us to re-conceptualize the education–emancipation nexus. The primary goal of traditional approaches to emancipatory and anti-oppressive education has been to empower the oppressed so that the latter can (re)gain their voice and transform their situations. Building on Rancière’s ideas, I argue that the processes of empowering the oppressed imply that one has the power to empower the …
Religious pluralism in school curriculum: A dangerous idea or a necessity
Few topics raise into relief the tensions and contradictions that haunt liberal democracies more than religious pluralism. For instance, the ironies of how core liberal values, like freedom of expr
The effects of age and gender on the prevalence of insomnia in a sample of the Saudi population
Insomnia is most prevalent among Saudi females and the elderly Saudi population
Slipping around in curriculum studies: (Re)views from new scholars
There are multiple ways of apprehending the current state of an amorphous field-like curriculum studies. While none of them can give us a comprehensive view, some perspectives shed different light
ICT and Language Teacher Development in the Global South: A New Materialist Discourse Analysis
In this article, I present insights from a discourse analytic study in which I examined publications that emerged from a teacher development program in Bangladesh. The program, known as English in Action, utilizes information and communication technologies to deliver professional development activities to English-language teachers. Now in its 8th year, the program claims great success in developing teachers’ pedagogical knowledge and capacity. Th…
Why critical literacy should turn to 'the affective turn: Making a Case for Critical Affective Literacy
The central argument of this essay is that critical literacy with a rationalistic bent may not enable us to cope with ethical dilemmas in our responsiveness to human sufferings. I argue that critical literacy education would benefit from turning to the recent scholarship on affect/emotion studies. I draw upon the works of Sara Ahmed – one of the leading contributors to critical affect studies – to shed light on what is called a regulatory power t…
Emotions in the curriculum of migrant and refugee students
Emotions are often used to categorize migrant and refugee populations, and to place them into particular subject positions. In much of the literature on the education of migrant and refugee students, emotions are viewed through a therapeutic lens. Against this backdrop, I argue that curriculum inquiries need to pay more sustained attention to how emotions are generated and circulated through complex discursive practices and to their potential imp…
Shifting borders and sinking ships: What (and who) is transnationalism “good” for
Use of Skin-Whitening Products by Sudanese Undergraduate Females: A Survey
Withdrawn: Circulation of dengue virus serotypes in hyperendemic region of New Delhi, India during 2011-2017
Opportunities for investment in the societal values provided by Sanjay Gandhi National Park, India
Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), surrounded by the megacity of Mumbai, India, is subject to high anthropogenic pressures. However, it constitutes an important 'green lung' and water source, supporting biodiversity, tourism, recreation, and additional benefits both locally and remotely. To safeguard and enhance the park ecosystem, there is a need to recognise and demonstrate the diversity of values associated with these multiple benefits, ident…
Social capital and disaster preparedness in Oromia, Ethiopia: An evaluation of the "Women Empowered" approach
Mapping the intersections of critical language awareness and affective approaches to second language writing
Teaching the Nation(s): A Duoethnography on Affect and Citizenship in a Content‐Based EAP Program
The plurality of nation in this title foregrounds the challenge of teaching a geopolitical entity whose survival depends on building emotional ties of belonging. These ties can be problematic in diverse societies in which collective identities compete for recognition. In Canada, nationhood tied to language and culture is claimed by French‐speaking Quebecers; it is also invoked by many Western‐Canadian politicians to express a growing alienation f…
Health behavior profiles and association with mental health status among US active-duty service members
Introduction: This study investigated the clustering of health behaviors among US active duty servicemembers (ADSM) into risk profiles and explored the association between these profiles with ADSM sociodemographic characteristics and mental health status. Methods: This study utilized secondary data from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey (HRBS), a Department of Defense (DoD) self-administered online survey. Health behaviors included physica…
Distractive language education policies and the endangerment of Indigenous languages in Bangladesh
Focusing on language education policies in Bangladesh, this article shows how the policies have distracted people's attention from the harms inflicted on the country's Indigenous communities and their languages. I discuss two factors that have contributed to policy distractions in this context: a strong form of Bangla linguistic nationalism and a neoliberal approach to English language teaching. To address the problem of language education policy…
Initial Teacher Education and the Emotional Geography of Languages: A conceptual intervention
The article addresses a key challenge faced by Initial Teacher Education (ITE) programs: how to reconcile the growing multilingual reality of society with the limited adoption of multilingualism in educational practice. It begins by providing an overview of ITE and some of its challenges. It then examines the importance of Critical Multilingual Language Awareness (CMLA), which emphasizes multilingualism as essential for equity and inclusion in li…
Cultivating the nexus of research and practice in language teacher education: A duoethnographic exploration
This article addresses the research-practice divide in education, with a particular focus on language teacher education. In line with this special issue, we see disciplinary value in the concept of “nexus” to describe the dynamic relationship between research and practice, offering a more nuanced framework than traditional dichotomies. After introducing the notion of nexus, we briefly explore the distinction between education and education al res…
Exploring the transformative potential of duoethnography for critical language teaching
This paper explores the transformative potential of duoethnography for critical language studies in settings of ethnolinguistic diversity. In duoethnography, two researchers juxtapose their experiences in a dialogic manner, seeking critical understanding that would otherwise not be available through individual self-reflection. Such understanding requires openness, trust, and respect for diverse ways of knowing, and a willingness to reexamine and …
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Pedagogy (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)