Amani K Hamdan Alghamdi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4153611 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Amani K Hamdan Alghamdi |
| NOMBRES | Amani K Hamdan |
| APELLIDO | Alghamdi |
| FIRMA | ALGHAMDI A K H |
| AFILIACIONES | Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8500-0266 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2007 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Unveiling progress
This qualitative paper employs framing theory to examine the evolving media representation of Saudi women in the workplace, particularly focusing on a visual analysis of 30 media images collected between April and September 2023. The study reveals a departure from traditional portrayals in Saudi Arabian media and Western perceptions of Saudi women as oppressed and passive, highlighting a significant shift in Saudi media platforms following Vision…
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women
Background : Wisdom holds that healthy and fit citizens ensure more successful national development plans. In its transition to a knowledge-based economy (Vision 2030), Saudi Arabia is depending on women’s contributions and leadership. But Saudi females have historically lacked access to physical education or sports as evident in their compromised health status (44% obesity rate) compared to the national average (35.4%), which is nearly three tim…
Does Gender Matter? Motivation and Learning EFL
Motivation is one of the most determining factors for the acquisition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) with gender a key factor. This quantitative research focuses on gender, motivation, and EFL learning in Saudi Arabia. An adapted version of the Motivation and Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) was used in March 2021 at two Eastern Province public secondary schools. Data were collected from 169 students (aged 16–18). The final sample frame (N=10…
Teaching 21st Century Skills in Saudi Arabia with Attention to Elementary Science Reading Habits
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 urges the teaching of 21st century skills. This study involved female elementary science teachers (n = 55) and students (n = 232) (intentionally taught using science reading and not intentionally taught this way) in two offices of a Saudi Eastern Province school board. Descriptive statistical analyses of teachers’ beliefs and students’ thoughts on science reading revealed key results. Most teachers believed that student…
Women’s role in nation building
This paper is about socialising Saudi female preservice teachers (PSTs) while they are attending university into the role of educational leadership. This leadership role should be broadened to include nation building per the tenets of Saudi Arabia’s national development plan, Vision 2030. After discussing nation building and profiling the Saudi educational context (including educational reform initiatives), and after explaining Islamic understand…
Bringing Science Fiction Story Writing to Saudi Science Education
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030’s Compatibility with Women and Children’s Contributions to National Development
Saudi Arabian secondary students’ views of the nature of science within Islamic context
This mixed-methods benchmark study examined Saudi Arabian (SA) Eastern Province secondary students’ understandings of the nature of science (NOS) in the Islamic context. To that end, two instruments, the Scientific Epistemological Views (SEVs) and an open-ended questionnaire about science and scientists were employed. Convenience sampling yielded N = 592 students (66% male, 34% female, Grades 10–12) from 25 science classes at the eight schools in…
Push-Pull Factors Influencing Saudi Women’s Investment in English-Language Learning
This qualitative study investigated Saudi women’s decision to invest in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This exploratory study collected semi-structured interview data from nine Saudi women of varying ages and educational and professional backgrounds in seven Saudi Arabian cities. A thematic analysis of the data revealed a wide array of factors that informed women’s discourse about pursuing English-language studies, culminating in t…
The Impact of Digital Technology on Female Students’ Learning Experience in Partition-Rooms
Contribution: As expected, a partition-room environment negatively affects students' learning. An unexpected result of this study is that female students occasionally choose not to use the technology available in partition-rooms, to avoid undesirable facial exposure. Background: The main purpose of partition-rooms is to prevent male instructors from seeing female students' faces. In learning environments where instructors and students are physica…
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
Gender, Language, and Society
This study concerns itself with the prevalence of gender stereotypes and classification of professions in Saudi Arabia. A survey and follow-up interview were administered to 80 female university students to determine whether young Saudi females’ classification of professions carries evaluative connotations related to gender. The results show that the subjects associate higher status (or skilled) professions with males and lower status professions…
Muslim Women Stereotyped
In this paper, I use global education theories and principles to deconstruct common myths regarding Muslim women and the Islamic treatment of women. This paper demonstrates how global education theory and principles can be used to deconstruct and reframe the myths and misconceptions perpetuated on Muslim women. The three major themes explored – female circumcision, polygamy, and subordination – are embedded in a single case and serve as a rich il…
The Role of Authentic Islam
This paper explores the main reasons for which progressive Saudis can be optimistic that women will eventually achieve their rightful place in society in general and in the employment sector in particular. A critical analysis is performed of the social, cultural, and religious background to gender inequality as well as of the current state of women’s education and employment. The evidence considered of the everlasting gender discourses in Saudi A…
Autoethnography as a Genre of Qualitative Research
In this article, I argue that an autobiographical narrative approach is highly suited to educational research. I discuss how a researcher's personal narrative, or autoethnography, can act as a source of privileged knowledge. I further argue that personal experience methods can be used on a variety of topics relevant to teaching and the field of education in order to expand knowledge. Autobiographical narrative is a research genre and a methodolog…
Single-sex or Co-educational Learning Experiences
In this paper I discuss how Arab Muslim women view the learning experiences of children in single-sex and co-educational schools. I explore the stereotypes that are perpetuated about each form of schooling and how these stereotypes may have hindered or encouraged their children's educational pursuits. While some participants see single-sex schooling as a vehicle for improving the educational experiences of girls, others perceive that single-sex s…
Narrative Inquiry as a Decolonising Methodology
As a distinct form of qualitative research, narrative can be used as a method of inquiry in order to examine past experiences and decolonise minds regarding the “still persistent colonial mission” (Willinsky in Abdi & Richardson, 2008, p. viii). Narrative acts as a lens through which we see anew – it is a means to explore unfamiliar sociohistorical context. A significant characteristic of narrative is that it can allow for new meanings and divers…
The Issue of Hijab in France
Europe's largest Muslim population of 4-5 million Muslim resides in France. On February 10, 2004 the French government approved an internationally controversial ban on headscarves, known as the hijab, worn by Muslim women attending public schools. Although the law banned all religious symbols, in this paper I focus on the ramification it has on the Muslim girls adhering to the hijab. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legislation ban of …
Arab Muslim Women in Canada
This paper is a discussion of how Arab Muslim Canadian women perceive themselves as women, the factors influencing their gender perceptions, and if that may have changed as a result of living in two cultures: Arab Muslim and Canadian. The nine Arab Muslim women interviewed were exposed to life and education in their own societies as adults and then experienced life and education in Canada. These women were interviewed to ascertain their gender pe…
Autoethnography as a Genre of Qualitative Research
In this article, I argue that an autobiographical narrative approach is highly suited to educational research. I discuss how a researcher's personal narrative, or autoethnography, can act as a source of privileged knowledge. I further argue that personal experience methods can be used on a variety of topics relevant to teaching and the field of education in order to expand knowledge. Autobiographical narrative is a research genre and a methodolog…
Arab Muslim Women in Canada
This paper is a discussion of how Arab Muslim Canadian women perceive themselves as women, the factors influencing their gender perceptions, and if that may have changed as a result of living in two cultures: Arab Muslim and Canadian. The nine Arab Muslim women interviewed were exposed to life and education in their own societies as adults and then experienced life and education in Canada. These women were interviewed to ascertain their gender pe…
Narrative Inquiry as a Decolonising Methodology
As a distinct form of qualitative research, narrative can be used as a method of inquiry in order to examine past experiences and decolonise minds regarding the “still persistent colonial mission” (Willinsky in Abdi & Richardson, 2008, p. viii). Narrative acts as a lens through which we see anew – it is a means to explore unfamiliar sociohistorical context. A significant characteristic of narrative is that it can allow for new meanings and divers…
Single-sex or Co-educational Learning Experiences
In this paper I discuss how Arab Muslim women view the learning experiences of children in single-sex and co-educational schools. I explore the stereotypes that are perpetuated about each form of schooling and how these stereotypes may have hindered or encouraged their children's educational pursuits. While some participants see single-sex schooling as a vehicle for improving the educational experiences of girls, others perceive that single-sex s…
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
Gender, Language, and Society
This study concerns itself with the prevalence of gender stereotypes and classification of professions in Saudi Arabia. A survey and follow-up interview were administered to 80 female university students to determine whether young Saudi females’ classification of professions carries evaluative connotations related to gender. The results show that the subjects associate higher status (or skilled) professions with males and lower status professions…
The Issue of Hijab in France
Europe's largest Muslim population of 4-5 million Muslim resides in France. On February 10, 2004 the French government approved an internationally controversial ban on headscarves, known as the hijab, worn by Muslim women attending public schools. Although the law banned all religious symbols, in this paper I focus on the ramification it has on the Muslim girls adhering to the hijab. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legislation ban of …
The Issue of Hijab in France
Europe's largest Muslim population of 4-5 million Muslim resides in France. On February 10, 2004 the French government approved an internationally controversial ban on headscarves, known as the hijab, worn by Muslim women attending public schools. Although the law banned all religious symbols, in this paper I focus on the ramification it has on the Muslim girls adhering to the hijab. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the legislation ban of …
Arab Muslim Women in Canada
This paper is a discussion of how Arab Muslim Canadian women perceive themselves as women, the factors influencing their gender perceptions, and if that may have changed as a result of living in two cultures: Arab Muslim and Canadian. The nine Arab Muslim women interviewed were exposed to life and education in their own societies as adults and then experienced life and education in Canada. These women were interviewed to ascertain their gender pe…
Narrative Inquiry as a Decolonising Methodology
As a distinct form of qualitative research, narrative can be used as a method of inquiry in order to examine past experiences and decolonise minds regarding the “still persistent colonial mission” (Willinsky in Abdi & Richardson, 2008, p. viii). Narrative acts as a lens through which we see anew – it is a means to explore unfamiliar sociohistorical context. A significant characteristic of narrative is that it can allow for new meanings and divers…
Single-sex or Co-educational Learning Experiences
In this paper I discuss how Arab Muslim women view the learning experiences of children in single-sex and co-educational schools. I explore the stereotypes that are perpetuated about each form of schooling and how these stereotypes may have hindered or encouraged their children's educational pursuits. While some participants see single-sex schooling as a vehicle for improving the educational experiences of girls, others perceive that single-sex s…
The Role of Authentic Islam
This paper explores the main reasons for which progressive Saudis can be optimistic that women will eventually achieve their rightful place in society in general and in the employment sector in particular. A critical analysis is performed of the social, cultural, and religious background to gender inequality as well as of the current state of women’s education and employment. The evidence considered of the everlasting gender discourses in Saudi A…
Autoethnography as a Genre of Qualitative Research
In this article, I argue that an autobiographical narrative approach is highly suited to educational research. I discuss how a researcher's personal narrative, or autoethnography, can act as a source of privileged knowledge. I further argue that personal experience methods can be used on a variety of topics relevant to teaching and the field of education in order to expand knowledge. Autobiographical narrative is a research genre and a methodolog…
Muslim Women Stereotyped
In this paper, I use global education theories and principles to deconstruct common myths regarding Muslim women and the Islamic treatment of women. This paper demonstrates how global education theory and principles can be used to deconstruct and reframe the myths and misconceptions perpetuated on Muslim women. The three major themes explored – female circumcision, polygamy, and subordination – are embedded in a single case and serve as a rich il…
Gender, Language, and Society
This study concerns itself with the prevalence of gender stereotypes and classification of professions in Saudi Arabia. A survey and follow-up interview were administered to 80 female university students to determine whether young Saudi females’ classification of professions carries evaluative connotations related to gender. The results show that the subjects associate higher status (or skilled) professions with males and lower status professions…
The Impact of Digital Technology on Female Students’ Learning Experience in Partition-Rooms
Contribution: As expected, a partition-room environment negatively affects students' learning. An unexpected result of this study is that female students occasionally choose not to use the technology available in partition-rooms, to avoid undesirable facial exposure. Background: The main purpose of partition-rooms is to prevent male instructors from seeing female students' faces. In learning environments where instructors and students are physica…
Responses to the Statements of New General Self-Efficacy Scale
General Self-Efficacy (GSE) scales are used to measure the extent to which individuals possess a general sense of mastery that is not tied to a specific situation or behavior. The present field experiment assesses whether the language in which a GSE scale is written can prime cultural mind-sets and, thus, shape participants’ appraisal of their own self-efficacy. Arabic–English bilingual speakers completed the New General Self-Efficacy (NGSE) scal…
Saudi Arabian secondary students’ views of the nature of science within Islamic context
This mixed-methods benchmark study examined Saudi Arabian (SA) Eastern Province secondary students’ understandings of the nature of science (NOS) in the Islamic context. To that end, two instruments, the Scientific Epistemological Views (SEVs) and an open-ended questionnaire about science and scientists were employed. Convenience sampling yielded N = 592 students (66% male, 34% female, Grades 10–12) from 25 science classes at the eight schools in…
Push-Pull Factors Influencing Saudi Women’s Investment in English-Language Learning
This qualitative study investigated Saudi women’s decision to invest in learning English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This exploratory study collected semi-structured interview data from nine Saudi women of varying ages and educational and professional backgrounds in seven Saudi Arabian cities. A thematic analysis of the data revealed a wide array of factors that informed women’s discourse about pursuing English-language studies, culminating in t…
Teaching 21st Century Skills in Saudi Arabia with Attention to Elementary Science Reading Habits
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 urges the teaching of 21st century skills. This study involved female elementary science teachers (n = 55) and students (n = 232) (intentionally taught using science reading and not intentionally taught this way) in two offices of a Saudi Eastern Province school board. Descriptive statistical analyses of teachers’ beliefs and students’ thoughts on science reading revealed key results. Most teachers believed that student…
Women’s role in nation building
This paper is about socialising Saudi female preservice teachers (PSTs) while they are attending university into the role of educational leadership. This leadership role should be broadened to include nation building per the tenets of Saudi Arabia’s national development plan, Vision 2030. After discussing nation building and profiling the Saudi educational context (including educational reform initiatives), and after explaining Islamic understand…
Bringing Science Fiction Story Writing to Saudi Science Education
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030’s Compatibility with Women and Children’s Contributions to National Development
Does Gender Matter? Motivation and Learning EFL
Motivation is one of the most determining factors for the acquisition of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) with gender a key factor. This quantitative research focuses on gender, motivation, and EFL learning in Saudi Arabia. An adapted version of the Motivation and Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) was used in March 2021 at two Eastern Province public secondary schools. Data were collected from 169 students (aged 16–18). The final sample frame (N=10…
Healthy lifestyle, physical education, and sports for Saudi women
Background : Wisdom holds that healthy and fit citizens ensure more successful national development plans. In its transition to a knowledge-based economy (Vision 2030), Saudi Arabia is depending on women’s contributions and leadership. But Saudi females have historically lacked access to physical education or sports as evident in their compromised health status (44% obesity rate) compared to the national average (35.4%), which is nearly three tim…
Unveiling progress
This qualitative paper employs framing theory to examine the evolving media representation of Saudi women in the workplace, particularly focusing on a visual analysis of 30 media images collected between April and September 2023. The study reveals a departure from traditional portrayals in Saudi Arabian media and Western perceptions of Saudi women as oppressed and passive, highlighting a significant shift in Saudi media platforms following Vision…
Sociology (15 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Islam (8 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Pedagogy (7 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras)