Zeinab Bilaki; Ali Akbar Tajmazinani
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Social exclusion manifests itself within the educational realm, particularly in the echelons of higher education. The pivotal role of such exclusion lies in impeding individuals' access to rights and opportunities, creating barriers that either thwart their continued participation in the higher ...
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Social exclusion manifests itself within the educational realm, particularly in the echelons of higher education. The pivotal role of such exclusion lies in impeding individuals' access to rights and opportunities, creating barriers that either thwart their continued participation in the higher education system or relegate them to the periphery. This study meticulously investigates educational exclusion within the Iranian higher education system, scrutinizing the processes contributing to the contextual landscape and the root causes of student exclusion. Furthermore, employing Grounded Theory, diverse dimensions of educational exclusion are explored, presenting a thick description. In the present study, semi-structured interviews with students and professionals were conducted to discern the facets of educational exclusion and identify influential factors. The gleaned contexts and rationales for exclusion encompass contexts, multifaceted family dynamics, impediments to effective communication, academic interactions, societal structures, and factors such as financial constraints, disabilities, inadequate educational policies, and the portrayal of higher education policies as agents of educational injustice.
Simin Veisi; Ardeshir Entezari; Saeed Zokaei; Ali Akbar Tajmazinani
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Our purpose in this research is to identify the types, strategies and consequences of constructing of justice. Most of the definitions of justice are made by youth and in the Iranian virtual space. Therefore, the main method is virtual ethnography and the data was analyzed by semiotic reading and thematic ...
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Our purpose in this research is to identify the types, strategies and consequences of constructing of justice. Most of the definitions of justice are made by youth and in the Iranian virtual space. Therefore, the main method is virtual ethnography and the data was analyzed by semiotic reading and thematic analysis. Types include agentic/critical, responsible, utopian, individualistic and national/transnational justice. Distributive, procedural and interactional justice are the most represented. Although epistemic justice is not expressed directly, it is seen in most definitions. Similarities can be seen between some aspects of the Islamic definition of justice with the Marxist, human rights, and liberal definitions of justice, although the latest definition simultaneously emphasizes individualism. There are strategies such as integrating the definitions of justice, iconizing, the role of power with various discourses, and resisting it in virtual space which has led to elitist definitions of justice, virtual agency of users due to the lack of direct possibility to bargain with power, dual otherizing, resistance to otherizing, and the spread of negative emotions. There was a lack of space in the dialogue between the youth and the power around justice.
