Ahmad Zirak Ghazani
Biographic Data
| ID | 5998589 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmad Zirak Ghazani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmad Zirak |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghazani |
| SIGNATURE | GHAZANI A Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7926-8285 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Amplifying voices, dismantling silences
Research involving children and youth, particularly those from culturally sensitive and vulnerable backgrounds, presents intricate ethical, methodological, and epistemological challenges. While acknowledging parents’ legitimate protective role, unjustified parental gatekeeping often regulates access to minors’ participation and can create tensions between adult-centric authority and minors’ evolving capacity for agency. These ambiguities get furt…
Investment in Minors’ Plurilingual Identities
Aims and Objectives: I examined the decision-making rationalities of Iranian–Canadian immigrant parents and the epistemological and sociocultural determinants that inform their decisions on their children’s linguistic developmental arc. Accordingly, I investigated the intersection of neoliberal ideologies and parental agency and their role in the structuring of investment in dominant and heritage languages. The research addresses parents’ navigat…
Power, positioning, and precarity
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Gigification of English Language Instructor Work in Higher Education
This article describes how discourses of professionalism, insecurity, and exploitation among English as a second language/English for Academic Purposes (hereinafter ESL/EAP) instructors and curriculum‐level administrators at two Canadian universities relate to their understanding of fair work. These understandings are examined in a nested manner, in keeping with social positioning theory. Via discourse and thematic analysis of job advertisements …
Power, positioning, and precarity
Amplifying voices, dismantling silences
Research involving children and youth, particularly those from culturally sensitive and vulnerable backgrounds, presents intricate ethical, methodological, and epistemological challenges. While acknowledging parents’ legitimate protective role, unjustified parental gatekeeping often regulates access to minors’ participation and can create tensions between adult-centric authority and minors’ evolving capacity for agency. These ambiguities get furt…
Investment in Minors’ Plurilingual Identities
Aims and Objectives: I examined the decision-making rationalities of Iranian–Canadian immigrant parents and the epistemological and sociocultural determinants that inform their decisions on their children’s linguistic developmental arc. Accordingly, I investigated the intersection of neoliberal ideologies and parental agency and their role in the structuring of investment in dominant and heritage languages. The research addresses parents’ navigat…
Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Social science (2 works)