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How Critical Thinking is Taught in Qatari Independent Schools’ Social Studies Classrooms: Teachers’ Perspectives
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Macrothink Institute
, 2012 , Article)
Qatar is in the midst of a massive systemic education reform Education For a New Era. A key aspect of the reform is the expectation of teachers to develop students’ critical thinking skills. In this paper, an open-ended ...
A Habermasian Analysis of Qatar's National Teacher Professional Standards
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Macrothink Institute
, 2014 , Article)
The belief that implementing professional standards will improve teaching and learning has
led many countries to embrace standards based educational reforms. Qatar is one of those
nations implementing, Education for a ...
Faculty perceptions of academic freedom at a GCC university
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Springer Netherlands
, 2010 , Article)
Massive oil revenues are currently fueling a surge in the number of educational
institutions in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, presenting leadership at all
levels with many unprecedented questions. In ...
The Qatar National Professional Standards for School Leaders: a critical discourse analysis using Habermas’ theory of knowledge constitutive interests
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Qatar is in the midst of a massive educational reform, Education for a New Era. Influence
by neoliberalism, one principle of the reform is the development of a standards-based
system including the adoption of the Qatar ...
Principal selection for Qatar's government schools: Policy makers', principals' and teachers' perspectives
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Research indicates that principals are critical in school reform since the implementation of policies and practices is to a large extent determined by the role that principals play in educational change. This study examines ...
Teacher perceptions of professional development in the context of national educational reform: the case of Qatar*
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
In light of nationally mandated educational changes in Qatar, this study investigates in-service teachers' perceptions of professional development (PD). The aims are to identify challenges facing teachers' PD. The respondents ...
Reading social stories in the community: A promising intervention for promoting children's environmental knowledge and behavior in Jordan
(
Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
Traditionally, education in various forms has been used as a tool to change values and behavior in children regarding the environment. This study reports findings from the We Love Reading Program that utilizes the reading ...
Burnout of primary teachers in Qatar government schools during an era of educational reform
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Society for Research and Knowledge Management
, 2019 , Article)
This study examined the burnout levels of a broad cross-sectional sample of primary school teachers (n=1657) from Qatar within the three domains of the burnout syndrome: Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), ...
Principals’ perspectives on faculty diversity in Qatar’s government schools
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Globalization requires the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) to experience numerous economic, social, and educational changes. In particular, Qatar’s unprecedented economic growth has created a flow of high- and low-skilled ...
Neoliberalism and Western accreditation in the Middle East: A critical discourse analysis of Educational Leadership Constituent Council standards
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of neoliberalism and the accreditation of educational leadership programs in one Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country by contextualizing the accreditation process ...