Teaching About The Middle East

Author : Omnia El Shakry
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299327606

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Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East by Omnia El Shakry Pdf

Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current events. This scattershot approach can propagate bias and misconceptions that inhibit students’ abilities to examine this vitally important part of the world. Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East moves away from the Orientalist frameworks that have dominated the West’s understanding of the region, offering a range of fresh interpretations and approaches for teachers. The volume brings together experts on the rich intellectual, cultural, social, and political history of the Middle East, providing necessary historical context to familiarize teachers with the latest scholarship. Each chapter includes easy- to-explore sources to supplement any curriculum, focusing on valuable and controversial themes that may prove pedagogically challenging, including colonization and decolonization, the 1979 Iranian revolution, and the US-led “war on terror.” By presenting multiple viewpoints, the book will function as a springboard for instructors hoping to encourage students to negotiate the various contradictions in historical study.

Author : Social Studies School Service
Publisher : Social Studies
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Middle East
ISBN : 9781560041009

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Teaching about the Middle East by Social Studies School Service Pdf

Author : Allen Webb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136837135

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Teaching the Literature of Today's Middle East by Allen Webb Pdf

Providing a gateway into the real literature emerging from the Middle East, this book shows teachers how to make the topic authentic, powerful, and relevant. Teaching the Literature of Today’s Middle East: • Introduces teachers to this literature and how to teach it • Brings to the reader a tremendous diversity of teachable texts and materials by Middle Eastern writers • Takes a thematic approach that allows students to understand and engage with the region and address key issues • Includes stories from the author’s own classroom, and shares student insight and reactions • Utilizes contemporary teaching methods, including cultural studies, literary circles, blogs, YouTube, class speakers, and film analysis • Directly and powerfully models how to address controversial issues in the region Written in an open, personal, and engaging style, theoretically informed and academically smart, highly relevant across the field of literacy education, this text offers teachers and teacher-educators a much needed resource for helping students to think deeply and critically about the politics and culture of the Middle East through literary engagements.

Author : Colin Brock,Lila Zia Levers
Publisher : Symposium Books Ltd
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781873927212

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Aspects of Education in the Middle East and Africa by Colin Brock,Lila Zia Levers Pdf

The chapters in this volume do not represent the whole of the Middle East and North Africa, as such a collection would have been too large for one volume. Rather, the selection here is intended to present different perspectives on a range of educational issues, relevant to a particular focus or country, or common to a number of countries in the area. There is no overarching theme beyond that which is common to most of the countries in this area; such as modernity versus tradition; the spread of education effecting sociological changes - most pronounced in the rural and tribal areas; the changing fortunes and roles of women; the aspiration and expectation of youth; and the state having become the major player in providing education. These are all shared by most of the countries represented here.

Author : Eleanor Abdella Doumato,Gregory Starrett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015066758171

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Teaching Islam by Eleanor Abdella Doumato,Gregory Starrett Pdf

Textbook Islam, nation building, and the question of violence / Gregory Starrett and Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- Egypt : promoting tolerance, defending against Islamism / James A. Toronto and Muhammad S. Eissa -- Iran : a Shi'ite curriculum to serve the Islamic state / Golnar Mehran -- Jordan : prescription for obedience and conformity / Betty Anderson -- Kuwait : striving to align Islam with Western values / Taghreed Alqudsi-Ghabra -- Oman : cultivating good citizens and religious virtue / Mandana E. Limbert -- The Palestinian national authority : the politics of writing and interpreting curricula. Genesis of a new curriculum / Nathan Brown ; A conflict of historical narratives / Seif Da'Na -- Saudi Arabia : from "Wahhabi" roots to contemporary revisionism / Eleanor Abdella Doumato -- Syria : secularism, Arabism, and Sunni orthodoxy / Joshua Landis -- Turkey : sanctifying a secular state / Ozlem Altan -- Textbook meanings and the power of interpretation / Gregory Starrett -- Conclusion : tailor-made Islam / Eleanor Abdella Doumato and Gregory Starrett.

Author : Robert Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319467788

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English Language Education Policy in the Middle East and North Africa by Robert Kirkpatrick Pdf

This volume offers insights on English language education policies in Middle Eastern and North African countries, through state-of-the-art reports giving clear assessments of current policies and future trends, each expertly drafted by a specialist. Each chapter contains a general description of English education polices in the respective countries, and then expands on how the local English education policies play out in practice in the education system at all levels, in the curriculum, in teaching, and in teacher training. Essays cover issues such as the balance between English and the acquisition of the national language or the Arabic language, as well as political, cultural, economic and technical elements that strengthen or weaken the learning of English. This volume is essential reading for researchers, policy makers, and teacher trainers for its invaluable insights in the role of each of the stakeholders in the implementation of policies.

Author : Samira Alayan,Achim Rohde,Sarhan Dhouib
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857454607

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The Politics of Education Reform in the Middle East by Samira Alayan,Achim Rohde,Sarhan Dhouib Pdf

Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations of the "Self" and the "Other" offer insights into the contemporary dynamics of identity politics. By building on a network of scholars working in various countries in the Middle East itself, this book aims to contribute to the evolution of a field of comparative education studies in this region.

Author : Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello,Joseph B. Entin,Rebecca Hill
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700632374

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Teaching American Studies by Elizabeth A. Duclos-Orsello,Joseph B. Entin,Rebecca Hill Pdf

“What if American Studies is defined not so much in the pages of the most cutting-edge publications, but through what happens in our classrooms and other learning spaces?” In Teaching American Studies Elizabeth Duclos-Orsello, Joseph Entin, and Rebecca Hill ask a diverse group of American Studies educators to respond to that question by writing chapters about teaching that use a classroom activity or a particular course to reflect on the state of the field of American Studies. Teaching American Studies speaks to teachers with a wide range of relationships to the field. To start, it is a useful how-to guide for faculty who might be new to, or unfamiliar with, American Studies. Each author brings the reader into their classes to offer specific, concrete details about their pedagogical practice, and their students' learning. The resulting chapters connect theory and educational action as well as share challenges, difficulties, and lessons learned. The volume also provides a collective impression of American Studies from the point of view of students and teachers. What primary and secondary texts and what theoretical challenges and issues do faculty use to organize their teaching? How does the teaching we do respond to our institutional and educational contexts? How do our experiences and those of our students challenge or change our understanding of American Studies? Chapters in this collection discuss teaching a broad range of materials, from memoirs and novels by Anne Moody and Octavia Butler to cutting-edge cultural theory, to the widely used collection Keywords for American Cultural Studies. But the chapters in this collection are also about dancing, eating, and walking around a campus to view statues and gravestones. They are about teaching during the era of Donald Trump, Black Lives Matter, and giving up authority in the classroom. Teaching American Studies is both a new way to think about American Studies and a timely collection of effective ways to teach about race, gender, sexuality, and power in a moment of political polarization and intense public scrutiny of universities.

Author : Christine Anne Coombe,Lisa Barlow
Publisher : Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English language
ISBN : 1931185417

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Language Teacher Research in the Middle East by Christine Anne Coombe,Lisa Barlow Pdf

This volume in the Language Teacher Research Series (Thomas S.C. Farrell, series editor) shares the studies and reflections of teacher researchers working in Middle Eastern countries with students from a variety of cultural backgrounds. These teachers explore aspects of their own practice in university settings, secondary school classrooms, and professional language training institutes. Despite the varied settings, the authors all have a common desire to improve their practice by looking critically at their teaching approaches and their students attitudes toward learning. These studies unearth assumptions made in different teaching contexts, and shine a light on factors of perception and motivation. Each chapter examines a specific teaching and learning environment and analyzes avenues for improvement in that particular context. However, the overall goal of this volume and the series is to share teacher researchers findings so that colleagues can extract their own interpretations and plan action steps for improving student learning in other contexts throughout the Middle East and the world. --- Product Description.

Author : Hilary Falb Kalisman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691234250

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Teachers as State-Builders by Hilary Falb Kalisman Pdf

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab world—and how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle East Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, Teachers as State-Builders brings to light educators’ outsized role in shaping the politics of the modern Middle East. Hilary Falb Kalisman tells the story of the few young Arab men—and fewer young Arab women—who were lucky enough to teach public school in the territories that became Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel. Crossing Ottoman provincial and, later, Mandate and national borders for work and study, these educators were advantageously positioned to assume mid- and even high-level administrative positions in multiple government bureaucracies. All told, over one-third of the prime ministers who served in Iraq from the 1950s through the 1960s, and in Jordan from the 1940s through the early 1970s, were former public school teachers—a trend that changed only when independence, occupation, and mass education degraded the status of teaching. The first history of education across Britain’s Middle Eastern Mandates, this transnational study reframes our understanding of the profession of teaching, the connections between public education and nationalism, and the fluid politics of the interwar Middle East.

Author : SULIMAN ABDELATY
Publisher : SULIMAN ABDELATY
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Principles of Teaching English in Middle East Classrooms: A Comprehensive Guide. by SULIMAN ABDELATY Pdf

"Principles of Teaching English in Middle Eastern Classrooms" is a comprehensive guide designed to support English language teachers working in the unique context of the Middle East. The book covers essential topics related to teaching English in the region, including cultural and linguistic background, teaching methodologies, curriculum development, classroom management, assessment, technology integration, and professional development. This book is grounded in current research and evidence-based practices, while also drawing from the real-world experiences of educators who have taught English in the Middle East. It aims to provide practical guidance and strategies that can be adapted and applied to various educational settings in the region, from primary schools to universities and language institutes.

Author : Linh Phung
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031460807

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Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching by Linh Phung Pdf

Author : Eileen T. Lundy,Edward J. Lundy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477310731

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Practicing Transnationalism by Eileen T. Lundy,Edward J. Lundy Pdf

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, American studies programs began to spread in the Middle East. During a time of rising anti-American sentiment, ten major programs were established in the region. What impulses propelled universities in the Middle East to establish these centers and programs? What motivated students to take courses and pursue degrees in American studies? In part, American studies programs developed as a way to “know the enemy,” to better understand America’s ubiquitous influence in foreign relations, technology, and culture; however, some programs grew because residents admired the ideals set forth as American, including democracy and free speech. Practicing Transnationalism investigates these issues and others, using the experiences and research of the editors and contributors, who worked either directly in these programs or as adjunct to them. These scholars seek to understand what American power means to people in the Middle East. They examine the challenge of developing American studies programs in a transnational paradigm, striving to build programs that are separate from and critical of American imperialism without simply becoming anti-American. In the essays, the contributors provide context for how the field of American studies has grown and developed, and they offer views of cultural interactions and classroom situations, demonstrating the problems instructors faced and how they worked to address them.

Author : Sahbi Hidri,Christine Coombe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319432342

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Evaluation in Foreign Language Education in the Middle East and North Africa by Sahbi Hidri,Christine Coombe Pdf

This book presents evaluation cases from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) context, investigating the various facets of evaluation in different parts of the MENA region and beyond. In 19 chapters, it explores cases from Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Syria, the UAE, Turkey, Iran and Morocco. The book highlights the impact of evaluation on a range of stakeholders, arguing that it has repercussions at the individual, societal, economic, cultural and political levels, that it also has an ethical dimension, and that it is tailored to people’s needs, helping them to remain abreast of the effectiveness and efficiency of programs. Further, the book explores controversial issues concerning different evaluation themes, such as teacher and staff evaluation, assessment practices, text genre analysis evaluation, assessment of productive skills, textbook and ICT evaluation, evaluation of ELT certificates and programs, quality assurance, ESP needs analysis, assessment literacy, and dynamic assessment. It addresses key challenges, such as who the “right people” to implement evaluation are, and the appropriate use of evaluation results to avoid any misuse or harm to any stakeholder. In closing, the book calls for further research venues on the relevance of evaluation, testing and assessment in the MENA context and beyond.

Author : Mahmoud Abdulwahed,Mazen O. Hasna,Jeffrey E. Froyd
Publisher : Springer
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319153230

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Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa by Mahmoud Abdulwahed,Mazen O. Hasna,Jeffrey E. Froyd Pdf

This book provides a collection of the latest advances in engineering education in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and sheds insights for future development. It is one of the first books to address the lack of comprehensive literature on undergraduate engineering curricula, and stimulates intellectual and critical discourse on the next wave of engineering innovation and education in the MENA region. The authors look at recent innovations through the lens of four topics: learning and teaching, curriculum development, assessment and accreditation, and challenges and sustainability. They also include analyses of pedagogical innovations, models for transforming engineering education, and methods for using technological innovations to enhance active learning. Engineering education topics on issues such as construction, health and safety, urban design, and environmental engineering in the context of the MENA region are covered in further detail. The book concludes with practical recommendations for implementations in engineering education. This is an ideal book for engineering education academics, engineering curriculum developers and accreditation specialists, and deans and leaders in engineering education.