Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted INVESTIGATING TEACHERS’ SENSEMAKING PROCESS AND EXPERIENCES OF WORKING WITH STUDENTS WITH LABELS OF AUTISM IN SAUDI ARABIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: A QUALITATIVE COLLECTIVE CASE STUDY(Rowan University, 2024-03-11) Alharbi, Hind; Elder, BrentIn this dissertation, I conducted a collective qualitative case study to understand the personal experiences and sensemaking processes that teachers developed to educate students with labels of autism in inclusion settings in Riyadh public schools. Specifically, I aimed to understand how teachers’ attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge regarding the inclusion of autistic students explained why teachers did what they did in their school context. In three rounds of semistructured interviews with eight teachers, participants explained their experiences and process of teaching students with autism. Participants also shared documents and artifacts to provide a deeper understanding of the nature of inclusion offered and their relevance in supporting inclusive education capabilities for students with autism. This study was guided by sensemaking theory and the conceptual frameworks of disability studies, disability studies in education, and critical disability studies. I selected the participants using purposeful sampling and analyzed the data using inductive analysis techniques. Five major themes emerged with subthemes throughout the data analysis: (a) teachers’ attitudes, (b) teachers’ knowledge and understanding, (c) teachers’ sensemaking of social and school system barriers, (d) teachers’ sensemaking of their teaching practices, and (e) teachers’ sensemaking of how the roles of school leaders and special education supervisors influence their teaching practices.18 0Item Restricted Investigating the Perceptions and Attitudes of EFL Teachers Towards Using Task-based Language Teaching in Saudi Higher Education(Saudi Digital Library, 2023-12-01) Alfaiz, Aljazi Abdulaziz S; Norrington-Davies, DannyThis study aims to investigate EFL teachers' perceptions and attitudes towards TBLT in Saudi higher education. The data was collected through mixed-method approach utilizing a questionnaire and interviews. The participants were 38 teachers from different universities, colleges, and an academy. The findings were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The overall results show that the teachers have very good perceptions of TBLT concepts. In addition, all participants displayed a very positive attitude towards the implementation of TBLT, and showed that contextual concerns such as the institution, the learners and the context may negatively affect their attitude when implementing TBLT.19 0