Professor
Ph.D.(1998) - Curriculum, Teaching & Learning - University of Toronto, Canada
M.Ed (1993) - Applied Linguistics/Second Language Teaching and Learning - University of Montreal, Canada
B.A. (Honors) (1990) - French Studies & Psychology - University of Khartoum, Sudan
Bio
Dr. Awad M. Ibrahim is a curriculum studies specialist. He had worked in several countries before joining Zayed University and was a UN consultant in civic education. He is interested in curriculum development, curriculum evaluation, critical pedagogy, popular culture and music and their use in teaching, child and youth studies, sociology of education, applied linguistics and research methodology. His current project is looking at the history and contemporary context of higher education in the GCC.
Office
Dubai Academic City, C.L2.008
Phone:
+971 4 402 1163
Email:
awad.ibrahim@zu.ac.aeResearch and Professional Activities
Ibrahim, A. M. & Barnawi, O. (2022). Past, present and future of higher education in the Gulf Cooperation Countries: Critical perspectives. New York: Routledge.
Sharma, M., Allen, A., & Ibrahim, A. (2022). Disruptive learning narrative in international setting: Critical challenges in teacher education practicums. London: Bloomsbury.
Ibrahim, A. M. (2021). Arab Spring, favelas, borders, and the artistic transnational migration: Toward a curriculum for a global Hip-Hop nation. In Toukan, E., Gaztazmbide-Fernandez, R., & Anwaruddin, S. (Eds.), Curriculum of global migration and tansnationalism (pp. 103-111).
New York: Routledge. Ibrahim, A. M. (2021). The new normal: English language learning, pop culture, and the politics of investment. In Werner, V. & Tegge, F. (Eds.), Pop culture in language education: Theory, research, practice (257-268).
London & New York: Routledge. Ibrahim, A. M. (2020). Representation: Unbracketing of power, the subject and the politics of curriculum. In Wearing, J., Ingersoll, M., DeLuca, C., Bolden, B., Ogden, H., & Christou, T. (Eds.), Key concepts in curriculum studies: Perspectives on the fundamentals (pp. 176-180). New York: Routledge.
Ibrahim, A. M. (2019). Intersecting race, language, and identity: Toward a sensuous curriculum of investment. In Gershon, W. (Ed.), Sensuous curriculum: Politics and the senses in education (pp. 115-134). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
