Perceptions of instructor injustice in COVID-19-imposed online courses: EFL students’ perceptions and experiences in focus

Iranian Efl Teachers’ Expectations and Perceptions About Teacher Classroom Justice Training

“…In contrast, pedagogical knowledge pertains to what teachers do to create productive learning and teaching environments, requiring knowledge about any factor which might deteriorate or enhance the teachers' professional effectiveness (Derakhshan et al, 2020). One such factor, regarded as a core value in education, is teacher justice in the instructional context (Chory et al, 2022;Sabbagh, 2021).…”

“…In other words, the quantitative studies on classroom justice drastically outnumbered the few recent qualitative studies, which attempted to obtain rich, descriptive, and textual accounts of justice from their participants' perspectives. For instance, Chory et al (2017Chory et al ( , 2022, Estaji and Zhaleh (2021a, 2021b, 2022a, 2022b, Horan et al (2010), and employed open-ended justice questionnaires allowing the participants to explicate their responses to the extent that they desired. On the contrary to the majority of studies in the literature, which were mainly psychometrically-driven, these qualitative studies engaged in the content and thematic analyses of the obtained textual data and calculated frequencies only where needed.…”

“…There is paucity of evidence on the teachers' or students' perceptions of classroom justice in L2 education. Only through the recent studies conducted by Chory et al (2022), Zhaleh (2021a, 2021b), Zhaleh et al (2022), Zhaleh (2022a, 2022b), and Estaji et al (forthcoming) have the social psychology theories of classroom justice been extended to the context of L2 learning and teaching. This is surprising considering the social and relational essence of language classes where teachers' just treatment of students is a desideratum for maintaining teacher-student interpersonal relationships and teachers' conveying the content knowledge to students (Gasser et al, 2018;Mercer & Dörnyei, 2020).…”