Construction of Teaching and Learning Cultures in Transnational Pedagogical Development: Discourses Among Palestinian University Instructors

This qualitative study explores teaching and learning cultures in the context of a community-oriented pedagogical development process initiated during Finnish–Palestinian transnational cooperation. Research data include focus group interviews texts produced training program with Palestinian university instructors. The examines as constructed by discourses around university. A poststructuralist discourse analysis identified five learning: disciplinary differences, traditional modern education, improving sociocultural religious context, political economic circumstances. shows that are dynamic fragmented they contrasting discourses. findings suggest initiatives need to provide spaces for discursive transformation, especially introduces additional alternative into institutional cultural meaning-making.