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Critical Thinking and Qatar’s Education For a New Era: Negotiating Possibilities
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University of South Carolina Greensboro
, 2012 , Article)
In this essay, the authors use Foucauldian concepts to examine the State of Qatar’s
unprecedented educational reform, Education For a New Era. One of the key
components of this comprehensive reform centers on the development ...
The impact of globalisation on society and culture in Qatar
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
, 2016 , Article)
The discovery of oil and the economic development and growth that followed has placed Gulf Countries on the fast path to urbanisation and modernisation, bringing an impact on traditional family relations and functions. In ...
EDUCATION FOR A NEW ERA: STAKEHOLDERS’ PERCEPTION OF QATARI EDUCATION REFORM
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
, 2013 , Article)
The paper reports the results of a qualitative research study that explores principal, teacher, and parent perceptions with regard to
Qatar’s education reform, Education for a New Era (EFNE) launched in 2004. The study ...
Identity issues: expatriate professors teaching and researching in Qatar
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Springer Netherlands
, 2015 , Article)
Today, academics are more transient, working outside their home countries,
than at any other time in the history of academics especially in the Arab World were there
is great demand for faculty members educated in Western’ ...
CORRUPTION AND MICROCREDIT INTEREST RATES: DOES REGULATION HELP?
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Misunderstandings about the structure of microcredit interest rates continue to generate rich criticism of the industry's high interest rates. Research has focused attention on the cost structure of interest rates and, ...
Investigating teachers' practices of creative thinking skills in Qatari preschools
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Common Ground Publishing
, 2010 , Article)
The purpose of this study was to investigate pre-school teachers' pedagogical practices in the context of promoting students' creative thinking skills in the classroom. A total of 80 female preschool teachers completed a ...
Truth against truth: American and Arab history school textbooks portrayal of the Arab–Israeli conflict
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2011 , Article)
Textbooks reflect a national consensus regarding the knowledge, values and perspectives that a
society wants conveyed to their students. Through textbooks, students are exposed to a dominant
narrative that presents an ...
Arab Middle Eastern women in Qatar and their perspectives on the barriers to leadership: Incorporating transformative learning theory to improve leadership skills
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
The development of leaders is a high priority on the national agenda for countries around the world
especially in fast-developing regions such as the Middle East. Qatar seeks to support and develop
Qatari men and women ...
Neoliberalism and Qatari preschools: A comparative study of England and Qatar
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Qatar is in the midst of a massive systematic reform designed to convert its schools and Ministry of
Education into a world-class competitive educational system according to Education for a New Era.
Influenced by ...
The impact of Qatar national professional standards: Teachers’ perspectives
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Consortia Academia Publishing
, 2014 , Article)
Over the past twenty years, countries have embraced educational reforms that are driven by
standards-based education that include professional standards for teachers. This is the case in
Qatar where professional standards ...