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The Educational Experiences of Saudi Male Students at a Large Midwestern Public University

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TLpq2458749837

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The Educational Experiences of Saudi Male Students at a Large Midwestern Public University

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Almarshedy, Abdulrahman Khaled

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Kent State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

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254

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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Kent State University

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2020

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The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to examine the everyday educational experiences of five Saudi men pursuing graduate degrees at a large Midwestern public university, how they come to negotiate their role as international students, and the kinds of social and cultural norms and values that trigger their anxieties. Data for this study were collected through individual interviews with each participant. This study suggests that the tensions and anxieties that the participants experienced in their new student role in academic settings are primarily the result of a rupture in their identity and their sociocultural negotiations around that rupture, negotiating the associated sociocultural norms and values. In addition to their identity struggle, this study suggests that the participants' encounters with new institutional practices such as admission, academics, writing, and research practices is another crucial factor that complicated their academic experiences by producing further anxiety in their enactment of their new student role in an academic setting. The findings of the study conclude that the Saudi men in this study are complex social beings who have experienced two educational and sociopolitical systems. Therefore, their participation and nonparticipation in the new social fields is a manifestation of their sense of agency in which they came up with projects of their own and utilized their resources to the best of their ability to achieve their culturally meaningful goals and ends.

English as a second language--ESL

Gender studies

Almarshedy, Abdulrahman Khaled

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