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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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Early years education in Qatar: The good practice guide in theory and practice
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Consortia Academia Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
Qatar’s massive education reform, Education for a New Era has dramatically shaped the
educational landscape by implementing professional and curriculum standards and introducing
best pedagogical practices at all levels. ...
Qatar’s Educational Reform: The Experiences and Perceptions of Principals, Teachers and Parents
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Macrothink Institute
, 2013 , Article)
This study describes the implications of the massive Qatari educational reform, Education
For a New Era (EFNE), from the perspectives of teachers, principals, and parents provides
insight into these stakeholders perceptions ...
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 ...