Randa Abbas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 657692 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Randa Abbas |
| PRENOMES | Randa |
| SOBRENOME | Abbas |
| ASSINATURA | ABBAS R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2516-4880 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Loss of Deep Reading and Critical Thinking in Education
Education is an academic discipline whose core knowledge consists of teaching and learning, research into teaching and learning, and the building of new theory based on research. Advancing over the years from basic teaching of “the three R’s” to stresses on science and discovery learning, education remains deeply connected to cultural change and changing societal values. Young people are influenced by teachers and curriculum, but this does not re…
An intercultural journey on the yellow brick road
Purpose This article details the intercultural journey of an Israeli Arab college student spending a semester at an American college. Design/methodology/approach The single case study captures the experiences of “Amal” in real time, through analysis of her extensive reflective journals and three interviews. The theoretical lenses through which the data are viewed are intercultural competence, intercultural mirror, and culture as home. Findings Fo…
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Publication Information
The Social Implications of XR
In 1992, Stephenson [1] described a type of metaverse in his science fiction novel Snow Crash . Through his imagination, Stephenson is said to have directly influenced the makers of Google Earth, and, more recently, Silicon Valley’s “Metaverse” [2] . In addition, there was a spate of literature published 15–20 years ago, related to metaverse concepts with the introduction of Second Life in June 2003 by Linden Labs. Many users experienced virtual …
Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place
Security and securitization can be defined in numerous ways. For example, an all-hazards approach to (national) security has been considered in the literature whereby we may refer to economic, environmental, and energy security [1] , in addition to other nonmilitary facets inclusive of food-, health-, demographic-, informational-, and resource-related aspects [2] . Furthermore, the literature points to various sectors of securitization [3] , whic…
Hosting an international conference on multiculturalism in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college
Purpose Conferences, while central to academic endeavors, are an understudied research site. This purpose of this study is to describe the experience of an Arab Israeli teachers’ college in hosting a large international academic conference on multiculturalism, conducted entirely in English. Most of the academic staff and all of the students are Arabic speakers. This added a layer of challenge for all our faculty and students. Design/methodology/a…
The role of reading skills in statistical literacy among bilingual and native Hebrew-speaking college students
The aim of the current study was to examine the relations between reading literacy and statistical literacy of Hebrew-speaking college students (L1) compared with Arabic-speaking students whose second language (L2) is Hebrew. The contribution of reading skills to statistical literacy in L1 and L2 students and the differences between the groups, were examined. Statistical literacy was tested via final grades in the statistics class.Forty-six nativ…
Co-Designing Location-Based Services for Individuals Living With Dementia
Dementia is an encompassing term used to define a series of “neurological conditions, of which the major symptom includes a global decline in brain function” [17] . Alzheimer’s Disease International [6] reports that every three seconds, one person worldwide will develop dementia. The not-for-profit also noted that there are 55 million individuals living with dementia and it is projected that by 2050, this number will increase to 139 million. In A…
Designing antifragile social-technical information systems in an era of big data
Purpose To explore the value and the case for designing antifragile socio-technical information systems (IS) in an era of big data, moving beyond traditional notions of IS design towards systems that can leverage uncertainty for gains. Design/methodology/approach A design science research (DSR) approach was adopted, comprising four stages, including problem identification and solutions definition, conceptual artifact or socio-technical system des…
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic
The present study examines the extent to which sociohistorical and political contexts influence the language attitudes of Israeli-Druze students to Hebrew as L2 and to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in Arabic-speaking schools. It is a pioneer explorative research study that compares students’ attitudes toward diglossia and L2. Using the Foreign Languages Attitudes and Goals Survey (FLAGS), the attitudes of second, fifth, and ninth graders in two di…
Public Interest Technology, Citizen Assemblies, and Performative Governance
There are many domains of human endeavor which invoke the “public interest,” for example, environmental sustainability, law, journalism, and, perhaps most pointedly in 2020–2021, health. All of these domains require some sort of tradeoff between different and potentially competing stakeholder priorities. For example, public interest in environmental sustainability, with respect to air quality, potable water, and arable land, can be in contention …
Co-Designing the Future With Public Interest Technology
This special issue is dedicated to the theme of public interest technology (PIT) [1] . PIT acknowledges that technological potential can be harnessed to satisfy the needs of civil society. In other words, technology can be seen as a public good that can benefit all, through an open democratic system of governance, with open data initiatives, open technologies, and open systems/ecosystems designed for the collective good, as defined by respective …
Is there a commitment in trainee teachers of Israel’s Arab sector to educate for multiculturalism
This research discusses the instruction of multiculturalism in Arab-Israeli teacher training colleges and seeks to discover whether its trainees are committed to educate for multiculturalism. It is a pioneering project as it inquiries how Arab students at departments of teacher education in Israeli Colleges learn about multiculturalism. On the theoretical level, the study contributes to the understanding of multicultural research. On the practica…
The use of modern standard and spoken Arabic in mathematics lessons
Researchers have shown an increased interest in the way teachers use their knowledge about language (KAL) to enhance student understanding and learning. This qualitative case study investigated first- and second-grade teachers’ use of KAL in Arabic. We investigated the linguistic transitions from standard Arabic to spoken Arabic made by the teachers during mathematics lessons. The results suggested that Arab-speaking mathematics teachers were awa…
What Do They Want From My Life? Parent-Child Relationships as Perceived by Druze Adolescents in Israel
This research examined Druze adolescents’ perception of their relationships with parents in Israel. Israeli Druze is a small group accounting for only 2% of Israel’s population. The Druze society is patriarchal; it demands absolute loyalty to the values of religion, family, and clan. Our goal was to explore the impact of increasing intercultural contact with modern Israeli society and the outside world on parent-child relationships in a tradition…
Two Ethnographic Researchers Embark on a Narrative Journey
In this article two ethnographic researchers present a life story that emerged, almost against their will, as one of 120 in-depth interviews with Israeli Druze. The ethnographic study was designed to provide understanding of Israeli Druze society today through the discovery of thematic patterns. One interviewee, however, simply refused to follow the loosely structured interview format and told her story. Hana's story about the importance of her f…
Will “Education for Tradition” Be Enough in a Closing Circle of Secrets? The Case of the Israeli Druze
This article reports some of the results of interviews with 120 Israeli Druze, 60 middle-aged adults and 60 young adults, regarding values, views of the Druze community, and personal identity. All participants expressed commitment to and love for traditional Druze values of familial respect, respect for others, modesty in dress and behavior, and commitment to Druze beliefs about one, all-powerful God and the reincarnation of Druze souls within th…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
Location-Based Social Networking
Location-based social networking (LBSN) is a service that utilizes location information to facilitate social networking. LBSN applications allow users to view the locations of their “friends.” They also may allow users to view information about other users of LBSN applications that are located in proximity. Users invite their friends to participate in LBSN. A process of consent follows in which users provide permission for their location informat…
Role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship
This study investigated how two Israeli Druze high schools shape the identity and citizenship of adolescents through curriculum, teaching, discourse, social activities and national ceremonies. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, the two school principals, policymakers for Druze education in the Ministry of Education, and students, as well as through observations and document analysis. The research found that the Israeli Druze sc…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
What Do They Want From My Life? Parent-Child Relationships as Perceived by Druze Adolescents in Israel
This research examined Druze adolescents’ perception of their relationships with parents in Israel. Israeli Druze is a small group accounting for only 2% of Israel’s population. The Druze society is patriarchal; it demands absolute loyalty to the values of religion, family, and clan. Our goal was to explore the impact of increasing intercultural contact with modern Israeli society and the outside world on parent-child relationships in a tradition…
Role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship
This study investigated how two Israeli Druze high schools shape the identity and citizenship of adolescents through curriculum, teaching, discourse, social activities and national ceremonies. Data were collected through interviews with teachers, the two school principals, policymakers for Druze education in the Ministry of Education, and students, as well as through observations and document analysis. The research found that the Israeli Druze sc…
Location-Based Social Networking
Location-based social networking (LBSN) is a service that utilizes location information to facilitate social networking. LBSN applications allow users to view the locations of their “friends.” They also may allow users to view information about other users of LBSN applications that are located in proximity. Users invite their friends to participate in LBSN. A process of consent follows in which users provide permission for their location informat…
Whose Interview Is It, Anyway? Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Insider-Outsider Research, Multiple Languages, and Dual-Researcher Cooperation
This article focuses on the methodological challenges in one interview of the 60 in-depth interviews that comprise a research study of Israeli Druze currently underway. The study is being conducted by a pair of researchers, one a Canadian living in Israel, an English and Hebrew speaker, and one an Israeli Druze woman, a Hebrew and Arabic speaker. The interview examined here involves two interviewers, two interviewees, three languages and at least…
Will “Education for Tradition” Be Enough in a Closing Circle of Secrets? The Case of the Israeli Druze
This article reports some of the results of interviews with 120 Israeli Druze, 60 middle-aged adults and 60 young adults, regarding values, views of the Druze community, and personal identity. All participants expressed commitment to and love for traditional Druze values of familial respect, respect for others, modesty in dress and behavior, and commitment to Druze beliefs about one, all-powerful God and the reincarnation of Druze souls within th…
Two Ethnographic Researchers Embark on a Narrative Journey
In this article two ethnographic researchers present a life story that emerged, almost against their will, as one of 120 in-depth interviews with Israeli Druze. The ethnographic study was designed to provide understanding of Israeli Druze society today through the discovery of thematic patterns. One interviewee, however, simply refused to follow the loosely structured interview format and told her story. Hana's story about the importance of her f…
The use of modern standard and spoken Arabic in mathematics lessons
Researchers have shown an increased interest in the way teachers use their knowledge about language (KAL) to enhance student understanding and learning. This qualitative case study investigated first- and second-grade teachers’ use of KAL in Arabic. We investigated the linguistic transitions from standard Arabic to spoken Arabic made by the teachers during mathematics lessons. The results suggested that Arab-speaking mathematics teachers were awa…
What Do They Want From My Life? Parent-Child Relationships as Perceived by Druze Adolescents in Israel
This research examined Druze adolescents’ perception of their relationships with parents in Israel. Israeli Druze is a small group accounting for only 2% of Israel’s population. The Druze society is patriarchal; it demands absolute loyalty to the values of religion, family, and clan. Our goal was to explore the impact of increasing intercultural contact with modern Israeli society and the outside world on parent-child relationships in a tradition…
Designing antifragile social-technical information systems in an era of big data
Purpose To explore the value and the case for designing antifragile socio-technical information systems (IS) in an era of big data, moving beyond traditional notions of IS design towards systems that can leverage uncertainty for gains. Design/methodology/approach A design science research (DSR) approach was adopted, comprising four stages, including problem identification and solutions definition, conceptual artifact or socio-technical system des…
Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic
The present study examines the extent to which sociohistorical and political contexts influence the language attitudes of Israeli-Druze students to Hebrew as L2 and to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in Arabic-speaking schools. It is a pioneer explorative research study that compares students’ attitudes toward diglossia and L2. Using the Foreign Languages Attitudes and Goals Survey (FLAGS), the attitudes of second, fifth, and ninth graders in two di…
Public Interest Technology, Citizen Assemblies, and Performative Governance
There are many domains of human endeavor which invoke the “public interest,” for example, environmental sustainability, law, journalism, and, perhaps most pointedly in 2020–2021, health. All of these domains require some sort of tradeoff between different and potentially competing stakeholder priorities. For example, public interest in environmental sustainability, with respect to air quality, potable water, and arable land, can be in contention …
Co-Designing the Future With Public Interest Technology
This special issue is dedicated to the theme of public interest technology (PIT) [1] . PIT acknowledges that technological potential can be harnessed to satisfy the needs of civil society. In other words, technology can be seen as a public good that can benefit all, through an open democratic system of governance, with open data initiatives, open technologies, and open systems/ecosystems designed for the collective good, as defined by respective …
Is there a commitment in trainee teachers of Israel’s Arab sector to educate for multiculturalism
This research discusses the instruction of multiculturalism in Arab-Israeli teacher training colleges and seeks to discover whether its trainees are committed to educate for multiculturalism. It is a pioneering project as it inquiries how Arab students at departments of teacher education in Israeli Colleges learn about multiculturalism. On the theoretical level, the study contributes to the understanding of multicultural research. On the practica…
The role of reading skills in statistical literacy among bilingual and native Hebrew-speaking college students
The aim of the current study was to examine the relations between reading literacy and statistical literacy of Hebrew-speaking college students (L1) compared with Arabic-speaking students whose second language (L2) is Hebrew. The contribution of reading skills to statistical literacy in L1 and L2 students and the differences between the groups, were examined. Statistical literacy was tested via final grades in the statistics class.Forty-six nativ…
Co-Designing Location-Based Services for Individuals Living With Dementia
Dementia is an encompassing term used to define a series of “neurological conditions, of which the major symptom includes a global decline in brain function” [17] . Alzheimer’s Disease International [6] reports that every three seconds, one person worldwide will develop dementia. The not-for-profit also noted that there are 55 million individuals living with dementia and it is projected that by 2050, this number will increase to 139 million. In A…
Securitization for Sustainability of People and Place
Security and securitization can be defined in numerous ways. For example, an all-hazards approach to (national) security has been considered in the literature whereby we may refer to economic, environmental, and energy security [1] , in addition to other nonmilitary facets inclusive of food-, health-, demographic-, informational-, and resource-related aspects [2] . Furthermore, the literature points to various sectors of securitization [3] , whic…
Hosting an international conference on multiculturalism in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college
Purpose Conferences, while central to academic endeavors, are an understudied research site. This purpose of this study is to describe the experience of an Arab Israeli teachers’ college in hosting a large international academic conference on multiculturalism, conducted entirely in English. Most of the academic staff and all of the students are Arabic speakers. This added a layer of challenge for all our faculty and students. Design/methodology/a…
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine Publication Information
The Social Implications of XR
In 1992, Stephenson [1] described a type of metaverse in his science fiction novel Snow Crash . Through his imagination, Stephenson is said to have directly influenced the makers of Google Earth, and, more recently, Silicon Valley’s “Metaverse” [2] . In addition, there was a spate of literature published 15–20 years ago, related to metaverse concepts with the introduction of Second Life in June 2003 by Linden Labs. Many users experienced virtual …
The Loss of Deep Reading and Critical Thinking in Education
Education is an academic discipline whose core knowledge consists of teaching and learning, research into teaching and learning, and the building of new theory based on research. Advancing over the years from basic teaching of “the three R’s” to stresses on science and discovery learning, education remains deeply connected to cultural change and changing societal values. Young people are influenced by teachers and curriculum, but this does not re…
An intercultural journey on the yellow brick road
Purpose This article details the intercultural journey of an Israeli Arab college student spending a semester at an American college. Design/methodology/approach The single case study captures the experiences of “Amal” in real time, through analysis of her extensive reflective journals and three interviews. The theoretical lenses through which the data are viewed are intercultural competence, intercultural mirror, and culture as home. Findings Fo…
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