Education hubs in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates: Analysis of discursive constructions using Latent Dirichlet Allocation

IF 2.8 3区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Edmund Adam , Neil Adam
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Abstract

Advanced techniques for linguistic analysis provide the opportunity to extract meanings from the available documents on education hubs. We use Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a topic modelling method for natural language processing and big data mining, to analyze the discourse of education hubs in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Our data derive from a corpus of academic literature, non-peer-reviewed articles, and policy documents. The analysis shows that education hubs have been at the core of efforts to transition from a hydrocarbon-based economy to a knowledge economy. The analysis also shows that education hubs have been increasingly associated with the two countries’ efforts to achieve regional leadership in overlapping geopolitical spheres of influence. Describing the situation as a ‘constructive rivalry’, we highlight its geopolitical implications and we call attention to Knight, (2022) knowledge diplomacy whereby the two countries can use education hubs as a mechanism for exercising leadership in promoting peace and development in the broader region of the Middle East.c.

卡塔尔和阿拉伯联合酋长国的教育中心:利用潜在德里希勒分配对话语结构进行分析
先进的语言分析技术为从有关教育中心的现有文件中提取意义提供了机会。我们使用 Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)(一种用于自然语言处理和大数据挖掘的主题建模方法)来分析卡塔尔和阿拉伯联合酋长国(UAE)教育中心的话语。我们的数据来自学术文献、非同行评审文章和政策文件的语料库。分析表明,教育中心一直是从碳氢化合物经济向知识经济转型的核心。分析还显示,教育中心与两国在重叠的地缘政治影响范围内实现地区领导地位的努力日益相关。我们将这种情况描述为 "建设性竞争",强调其地缘政治影响,并呼吁关注骑士(2022 年)知识外交,两国可利用教育中心作为发挥领导作用的机制,促进中东地区的和平与发展。
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International Journal of Educational Development
International Journal of Educational Development EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
CiteScore
4.20
自引率
12.00%
发文量
106
审稿时长
40 days
期刊介绍: The purpose of the International Journal of Educational Development is to foster critical debate about the role that education plays in development. IJED seeks both to develop new theoretical insights into the education-development relationship and new understandings of the extent and nature of educational change in diverse settings. It stresses the importance of understanding the interplay of local, national, regional and global contexts and dynamics in shaping education and development. Orthodox notions of development as being about growth, industrialisation or poverty reduction are increasingly questioned. There are competing accounts that stress the human dimensions of development.
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