Center for Studies in Higher Education

Nasser Rashidi is presently a professor of teaching English as a foreign language in the Department of Foreign Languages and Linguistics at Shiraz University. His area of research is TEFL including language teaching and discourse analysis.  Professor Nasser Rashidi is a current CSHE Visiting Scholar whose work focuses on the status of critical pedagogy and its application by the university instructors in their teaching methodology.  His comparative study will explore the teaching methodology in the University of California, Berkeley and Shiraz University within the framework of critical thinking. The study is important for Shiraz University to see how close the two universities are regarding the instructors' application of critical pedagogy in the methods of teaching and learning in their classes at different levels.