Qatar’s educational reform past and future: challenges in teacher development
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The Qatari educational system used the intrinsic-nationalistic and cultural traditions of Arabic schools until the late 1990s as mentioned in this paper, and the Qatari leadership and stakeholder was outdated; hence, they approach...Abstract:
Until the late 1990s, Qatar’s educational system used the intrinsic-nationalistic and cultural traditions of Arabic schools. The Qatari leadership and stakeholder was outdated; hence, they approach...read more
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A classroom observational study of Qatar's independent schools: Instruction and school reform
Douglas J. Palmer,Hissa Sadiq,Patricia S. Lynch,Dawn Parker,Radhika Viruru,Stephanie L. Knight,Hersh C. Waxman,Beverly Alford,Danielle Bairrington Brown,Kayla Braziel Rollins,Jacqueline R. Stillisano,Abdullah M. Abu-Tineh,Ramzi Nasser,Nancy Allen,Hessa Al-Binali,Maha Cherif Ellili,Haithem Al-Kateeb,Huda Salem Al-Kubaisi +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an observational study of classrooms with a stratified random sample of the first six cohorts of reform schools was conducted, where 156 classrooms were observed in 29 reform schools.
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Can Education Reform in Iraq Build a Better Peace
TL;DR: This paper argued that Iraq may well be on a course to becoming the next Iran - an Islamic republic that tramples on individual liberties in the name of religion, and that the propensity of the predominately Shia country is to develop a government more concerned with adherence to the Quran than to the preservation of civil liberties.
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Alignment of Teacher-Developed Curricula and National Standards in Qatar’s National Education Reform
Ramzi Nasser,Eman Zaki,Nancy Allen,Badria Al Mula,Fatma Al Mutawaha,Hessa Al Bin Ali,Tricia Kerr +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the degree to which teacher developed curriculum was aligned with the national standards in Qatar and found that the objectives of units and lessons in each of the four subject areas Arabic, English, mathematics and science, closely aligned with tasks and artifacts.