The Arab Forum for Educational Development 2011 held from May 28-30
The Arab Thought Foundation organized, in cooperation with school-based reform project in the Arab World TAMAM - AUB, the Arab Forum for Educational Development 2011 from 28-30 May 2011 in West Hall Building at the American University of Beirut. The forum took as its heading “Empowering Arab Educational Practitioners to Lead School-Based Reform”. The forum was held as a specialist meeting, focusing on Arab school-based reform, i.e. “the bottom-up” development methodology.
The Forum’s objectives were to inform participants about the concepts of school-based reform and how they were applied in TAMAM project, as well as to exchange ideas about school-based reform in general, and TAMAM project in particular. Furthermore, the Forum sought to inspire participants to continue their efforts for reform and encourage others to do so. Lastly, the Forum aimed at continuing a dialogue on educational development issues in the Arab region by all stakeholders.
Forum participants were educational practitioners in the public and private sectors, decision-makers, as well as researchers, university professors and thinkers who were interested in and who support school-based reforms. Also attending were representatives of Ministries of Education and relevant international and regional organizations in order to jointly discover how to achieve school-based reform in their respective regions. The Forum included a plenary session, concurrent sessions, discussion groups and two “World Café” style sessions. Posters for various educational initiatives were also included.
TAMAM project was an integral part of the Forum, which featured presentations about the project in each of the schools, focusing on learned lessons, results of action research, and the best ways to bring about a culture of educational development in the Arab world.
The Forum has received wide coverage, as evidenced by the following downloadable press articles:
- Article in Al-Bayan
- Article in Al-Hayat
- Article in Al-Maghress
- Article in Al-Nahar
- Article in Al-Riyadh
- Article in Al-Safir
- Article in Al-Watan
