Welcome to the TAMAM Project website!
TAMAM is a collaborative school-based educational reform project involving schools in the Arab World. Unique in the region, it presents a new paradigm for school reform. TAMAM’s name derives from its purpose: it consists of the initials of “ school-based reform” in Arabic (al-tatweer al-mustanid ila al-madrasa).
TAMAM is an inquiry-based project at two levels: First, it promotes inquiry and evidence-based decision-making at the school level while building capacity for improvement. Second, it aims at developing a theory of change by investigating factors which hinder or enhance educational change in the Arab schools.
Further, TAMAM aims at building a community of practice connecting schools, universities, and ministries of education. The project’ s evolving design allows for adjustments based on the lessons learned from experience. An expansive project, TAMAM allows for expansion within the school and gradual inclusion of other Arab countries and schools. TAMAM consists of two Phases: Phase I and Phase II.
Funded by the Arab Thought Foundation, TAMAM was launched in 2007 on the basis of a memorandum of understanding signed between the Foundation and the American University of Beirut.
Project Paper - Phase I: English version and Arabic version.
Project Paper - Phase II: English version and Arabic version.