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Yousra Abourehab
Assistant Professor, Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies
Affiliate Faculty, Second Language Acquisition / Teaching - GIDP
Co-Chair International Initiatives
Member of the Graduate Faculty
Pronouns:
she, her, hers
Dr. Yousra Abourehab is an assistant professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of Arizona. She earned a Ph.D. in Teaching, Learning & Sociocultural Studies with a focus on multilingual and multicultural education. Yousra has taught several undergraduate courses in the Teacher Preparation programs at the UA. Also, she has developed and delivered K-16 professional learning series and workshops in international education and multilingualism through multiple collaborative projects including the Worlds of Experience for Language Learning (WELL) Project. Currently, she is directing the Global Education program at the College of Education.
Her research interests include multilingualism, global education, community-based learning, language planning policy, and Arabic as a global language. Her work has appeared in journals such as Applied Linguistics, Intercultural Communication Education, Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Action in Teacher Education (Google Scholar). Her collaborative research has won the 2021 J. Michael Parker Award from the Literacy Research Association. Her current research focuses on multilingual peace education across disciplines (funded by US Department of Education Title VI center, Center for Educational Resources on Culture, Language, and Literacy).