Bridging the gap: on easing the transition from Arab secondary to Western third level learning

Hayes, Aneta; Holden-Rachiotis, Caroline; Kavanagh, Brendan P; Otoom, Sameer

doi:10.1080/09500790.2010.550281

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“…Insufficient or under-developed study skills can impact negatively on the students' experience and the learning outcomes 11 . This study reveals that the study skills course helped students with their organization, preparation and management of learning, lectures and time, see figure 2.…”

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Bridging the Gap : A Program to Enhance Medical Students’ Learning Experience in the Foundation Year

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Bridging the Gap : A Program to Enhance Medical Students’ Learning Experience in the Foundation Year

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“…It is vital that universities seeking to establish international campuses in the Middle East, understand that the student body can face a myriad of transitions including language, attendance, study skills, self-realization, and curriculum adaptation, in addition to social and cultural adaptation challenges. Recognizing the importance of understanding the student transitional journey and its impact on academic success, RCSI continues to research these factors in this key transitional stage in the students' educational journey [6][7][8][9][10] . Based on research findings, a range of educational initiatives, including providing a transitional year of study through establishing the Medical Commencement Program (MCP), developing the Student Success Centre, which is dedicated to the provision of academic and pastoral student support, implementing peer-assisted learning activities and providing students with language support through pre and in-sessional language programs, have been launched.…”

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Bridging the Gap : The Need for Research in the Middle East

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The commencement of medical school marks the start of a demanding time for students. Multiple stressors, including social, academic and emotional are navigated successfully by many students; although, others are less able to deal with the transition into this complex new life and fail to achieve academic success. Student failure and attrition result in wide ranging detrimental costs, not only to the student concerned, but to the institutional reputation, income stream and to other stakeholders including sponsoring bodies, parents and communities 1. In addition, the effects of failure can have an unexpected long-term impact. Yates et al revealed that poorly performing students in the early years of medical school may be at an increased risk of subsequent medical misconduct 2 .

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“…An emerging body of research from this Irish medical university located in Bahrain focuses on the first-year student experience in transnational education (Holden-Rachiotis & Otoom, 2015;Maddison, 2015;Maddison, 2016;Holden, 2015, Hayes et al, 2011Hayes et al, 2013;Leksandar-Hayes, 2013) and provided the starting point for the investigation of these questions.…”

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Epistemological and Ontological Challenges of Transnational Foundation Year Medical Students

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This paper investigates the journey embarked upon by foundation year medical students in order to adapt to new ways of learning, knowing and realizing self-determination as they navigate the new situated spaces of a transnational medical university in the Middle East. Drawing on a body of research carried out in this university, and with reference to wider literature on transnational education, this paper develops insights and makes recommendations on how to support local Arab students from Arabic secondary schools who enter transnational medical education 'at home'. The discussion considers an important component of this as being the shift in this context from previous learning through the medium of Arabic to tertiary level learning in English. It is argued that the transition of transnational students can be mapped through ontological and epistemological lenses through a journey from 'known space' to 'new place'. A tri-support model which demonstrates this transition is presented which can be usefully applied to other transnational educational contexts.

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Bridging the gap: on easing the transition from Arab secondary to Western third level learning

Cited by 5 publications

References 39 publications

Bridging the Gap : A Program to Enhance Medical Students’ Learning Experience in the Foundation Year

Bridging the Gap : A Program to Enhance Medical Students’ Learning Experience in the Foundation Year

Bridging the Gap : The Need for Research in the Middle East

Epistemological and Ontological Challenges of Transnational Foundation Year Medical Students

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