Ongoing international research, new global partnerships, prospered academic mobility to and from world universities have been soaring; IUG achievements are successive, and the supreme purpose is to empower students, enhance academics, and serve the local community.
The most up- to- date accomplish is a joint project that connects four countries in three continents. In collaboration with six global Universities, the Islamic University won an international project entitled, “Building an intercultural pedagogy for higher education in conditions of conflict and protracted crises: Languages, Identity, Culture”.
Teamwork
With a cooperative spirit and a vision toward future, IUG Associate Professor for English language and the expert of building international academic projects Prof. Nazmi Al-Masri, in contact with Durham University, had prepared a proposal for the project in May 2018 to be funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The joint project consists of six multicultural experts: Prof. Nazmi Al-Masry, prof. Prue Holme, Prof. Marta Moskal, from Education Faculty at Durham; prof. Ayse Furat, Dean of theology faculty at Istanbul University; prof. Beatriz Pena Dix, from social sciences faculty at Los Andes- Columbia; and prof. John Blair Corbett, from Arts Faculty at São Paulo University in Brazil.
Objectives
The project takes a step to study and strengthen the theories and methods of dialogue between IUG students and their peers of multi-cultures, languages, and conditions- conflicts and crises- like Colombia and displaced Syrians in Turkey. Moreover, the project zooms in the concepts and methodologies of understanding global citizenship, intercultural learning, and capacity building.
The project’s objectives will be carried out through plenty of activities that mainly focus on building a network of cultural dialogue between British researchers and academics & experts of language and communication in Palestine, Colombia, Turkey, and Brazil.
Prof. Al-Masri reported that four case-study workshops will be held in four cities: Gaza in Palestine, Bogota in Colombia, Durham in Britain, Istanbul in Turkey. The workshop will include researchers, students, youths who are marginalized from official education and work. The main objective of the four workshops is to accomplish and activate the goals of sustainable development 2030 (SDGs) especially that is related to good and comprehensive education for all.
Outputs
The next step means to highlight the project’s outputs. Firstly, publishing the project’s activities and the four case studies’ results on a special online site is of great importance to benefit those who are working in international academic institutions, NGOs, charitable foundations, researchers, developers of higher study’s policies, experts of youth’s abilities development, refugees, immigrants, minor and marginalized groups. Secondly, publish two research, at least, in scientific magazines and international conferences. In addition, issue a jointly written book about the recent methodologies of multicultural university learning as well as the methods of conducting research in several languages.
