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Attracting High Achieving Secondary Students through Early Admission Call-Up in an American Style College in Lebanon: A Comparison with American Colleges
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National Association for College Admission Counseling
, 2009 , Article)
An early admission call-up was used to attract high-achieving students to a private university in Lebanon. The callup,
which is essentially an offer of admission before the student takes any formal steps, was administered ...
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’ ...
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 ...
Problematizing Accreditation for Teacher Education
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2023 , Article)
This essay aims to problematize US accreditation of teacher education. Foucault’s notion of problematization is used as a theoretical framework to explain how accreditation emerged in the past as a solution to perceived ...
Globalisation, policy transferring and indigenisation in higher education: the case of Qatar’s education city
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
Qatar’s transition from a hydrocarbon-based to a knowledge-based economy spurred the development of Education City, which houses several International Branch Campuses and one home-grown university, Hamad bin Khalifa ...
Examining Qatar’s private and public-school teachers’ readiness for teaching about sustainability
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Routledge
, 2023 , Article)
Understanding teacher readiness for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) instruction is crucial. This study investigated Qatar’s preparatory and secondary public and private school teachers’ perceived readiness to teach ...