Education In Middle East Research Articles

The historiography of education in the modern Middle East

ABSTRACT This review outlines the historiography of education in the Middle East, focusing on events from the nineteenth century through the 1980s, and on Bilad al-Sham, mainly Jordan, Palestine and Israel, Iraq, and Northern Africa, including Egypt and Türkiye. Modernisation and nationalism were the main lenses through which educators, researchers, and students viewed the significance of their schooling in the late nineteenth- and twentieth-century Middle East. Scholars likewise take these frameworks as key to understanding the importance of education in the region’s history. This review suggests that historians ought to recognise the saliency of previous frameworks for the actors who lived them while analysing the region beyond those limits. It advocates incorporating education more consistently into other fields, such as histories of the environment and race. It recommends that historians of education include those fields in their own work, while following historical actors, texts and ideologies across regimes and borders.

THE DIGITAL MOVE TOWARDS ONLINE LEARNING IN LEBANON

Face-to-face learning has always been the primary way of education in Middle East. However, some countries such as Jordan, Saudi Arabia, UAE and others decided to adopt some learning management platforms to provide dual programs online. On the other hand, Lebanon is still in its early stages as it was adopted by Ministry of Education in mid-2020 due to the spread Covid-19. In addition, utilizing online learning platforms suffer from many challenges such as accreditation, culture, cost, etc. To study students' satisfaction regarding technology use, level of interaction, types of questions, training, and online sessions and recorded voice-over slides, a survey was distributed to 609 Lebanese students attending different universities. It showed that institutions mainly used Moodle, Google Classroom, and Zoom. There was a comparable rate of satisfaction between Google and Moodle platforms; however, a lower rate with Zoom.

Critical care medicine education in Middle East, FCCS/BASIC course, common purpose, different method.

Critical care medicine education in Middle East, FCCS/BASIC course, common purpose, different method.

Managing User Acceptance and Use of Technology in Higher Education: An Empirical Study

This research contributes to the ongoing multi-cultural empirical research on the applications of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Specifically, the hypothesized research model is based on the modified technology acceptance model (TAM2). The study examines the factors that affect students' perception towards the use and acceptance of technology in higher education in Middle East and Arabian gulf countries using structural equation modeling (SEM). The sample studied consists of 152 students from the New York Institute of Technology Campus. A new construct (faculty emphasis (FE)) is tested. The results reveal that perceptions of internal control (PIC) and perceptions of external control (PEC) have a significant impact on perceived ease of use (PEOU). Perceived ease of use (PEOU) and faculty emphasis (FE) have significant impact on the perceived usefulness (PU) which, in turn, significantly affects students' intention to use technology (ITU). This study is considered the first in the Middle East. Several practical and theoretical implications of the study are discussed.

A glance to education in the middle east under the shadow of politic and ethnic conflicts in the region

Education in the Middle East has been effective and important during the ages and the civilizations in the region have shaped both economic and social life around the region. But later Middle East education systems have entered the twenty century with problems and political differences. And these political differences, colonialism, missionaries and ethnics conflicts have colored their education systems. There are variations between countries in the Middle East States. Although enrolment has increased, the region as a whole still behind other regions compared to the world standards. This study examines schooling and education in Middle East by focusing on their school enrolment rates, gender parity in schooling, literacy, and out of schooling rates. we use the term middle east countries to refer, Saudi Arabia, united Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Oman, Palestine , Qatar, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Yemen and Israel.

Fixing What's Wrong -- and Building on What's Right -- With Middle East Education

Over the past few decades, development experts have placed great emphasis on the crucial role of education in improving social, economic, and political conditions in the Middle East. Significant regional and international resources have been invested in education. But the gains have been uneven, and it is time to pause and assess the results. Most troubling is the missing correlation between educational advances and economic opportunity. The anticipated links—from schooling to employment, and from education to social stability—are absent in many locations. In some places, progress in these areas has even been reversed. Much more emphasis needs to be placed on the socialization and life-competency aspects of education. Reforms should seek to structure the education system not only according to abstract international standards of pedagogy, but in closer alignment to feasible economic links and to civic values. Rather than overarching goals related to abstract measures such as literacy and testing scores, success should be measured by whether graduates are able to find work and develop an identity as productive citizens. Further, resources should support positive trends. In reviewing what has worked best, it becomes apparent that educational investment has been particularly helpful for young Arab women, who show significant and in some instances dramatic improvement in educational levels and economic participation. Along with these gains have come changing attitudes and increased support for women's education by parents, educators, and communities, showing that positive outcomes can help change attitudes.