Title of the PhD project: Integration of Syrian Refugees in Higher Education System in Host Countries. A comparative study between Germany and Jordan. The role of Transculturalism: Education and Language.
Education is a key means of integrating the refugee population into their host countries and preventing permanent deficits in the human development of young people affected by the conflict. It is assumed that today's cultures are composed of different cultural identities and have transnational contours. The term transcultural society refers both to the crossing of borders and to their overcoming or elimination. My dissertation deals with the question of how refugee students in post-migrant societies benefit from transcultural concepts in the higher education system. Jordan and Germany are examples of host countries examined in this research project, where different cultures clash. I argue that education in today's universities should provide innovative solutions by incorporating elements of different cultures and working together. This dissertation explores the aspects of transculturality in the higher education system by conducting and analysing interviews with refugee students and experts at universities in Jordan and Germany. The dissertation is originally written in English and subsequently translated into German.
Contact: daad.nazzal(at)gju.edu.jo
CV:
- August 2015 - Present
German Instructor (A1 - B2) at German Jordanian University
Madaba- Jordan - June 2019 - December 2020
PhD Research Assistant at the Social Work Department at German Jordanian University, Part-Time at the LOSWAC Project, funded by DAAD Madaba - Jordan - April 2018 - Present
Freelance Interpreter (Arabic/German/English) - September 2017
Internship at the SPD Party
International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) Special Program Arab States, Berlin, Germany - 2013-2015
Master of German as a Foreign Language
Faculty of Applied Humanities and Language Center,
German Jordanian University, Madaba, Jordan - Winter Semester 2014/2015
Exchange Semester University of Munich, Germany - 2008-2012
Bachelor of German as a Foreign Language
Faculty of Applied Humanities and Languages,
German Jordanian University, Madaba, Jordan - Winter Semester 2011/2012
Exchange Semester University of Göttingen, Germany
Funding or scholarship: Scholarship of the University of Applied Sciences Fulda
Period of the PhD project: since April 2022
Links to research project:
LOSWAC: The Project "Localisation of Social Work in Arab Countries (LOSWAC) - Transformation Partnership Programme 2019-2020" is initiated by a collaboration of the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt (FHWS), the German Jordanian University (GJU), the Lebanese University (LU), and Yarmouk University in Jordan (YU). The aim is to research the potentials and challenges of localisation of Social Work in the Arab countries as well as to establish a scientific network and platform for the regarding discourse. Link: https://ifas.fhws.de/en/loswac/
Conferences and Participations:
- Participation in the virtual conference as keynote speaker "Protracted Displacement: hopes, perspectives, and solutions? Displaced Students and Access to Higher Education: Best Practices and Lessons Learned"
Held by: German Jordanian University, 19th and 20th of October - 3rd and 7th of November 2020 https://protracted-displacement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Conference-programme-November-16.2020.pdf - Participation in the conference as a Guest Speaker: "Managing the challenges of irregular migration, using opportunities for regular migration" Attraction in relation to the situation in Jordan.
Held by: International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) - Alumni Regional Conference in Morocco / Rabat. Rabat, Morocco, (16-19) November 2017. - Participation in the virtual conference as keynote speaker "Protracted Displacement: hopes, perspectives, and solutions? Displaced Students and Access to Higher Education: Best Practices and Lessons Learned" Held by: German Jordanian University, 19th and 20th of October - 3rd and 7th of November 2020 https://protracted-displacement.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Conference-programme-November-16.2020.pdf
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