Member of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies

Name: Munir Bashshur

 

E-Mail: bashshur@aub.edu.lb

 

Degree:
Ph.D. in Comparative Education
University of Chicago, U.S.A., 1964.

 

Current Position:
Professor, Department of Education, American University of Beirut

 

Specialty and Research Interests:
Comparative Education and Policy Studies

 

Publications (since 1990):

  • (2007): Bashshur, M. “ History Teaching and History Textbooks in Lebanon”, in Recep Kaymackcan and Oddbjorn Leirvik (eds.), Teaching For Tolerance in Muslim Majority Societies, DEM Press, Istanbul, pp. 190- 209.

  • (2006): Bashshur, M. (Joint Editor) L’enseignement superieur dans le monde arabe: une question de niveau? Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth.

  • (2006): Bashshur, M. “Standards of Quality of Higher Education in Lebanon” (pp 1-30), and  “Synthesis and Reflections: Have Standards of Higher Education Gone Up or Down in the Arab Countries?” (pp 203-214), in Bashshur & others (eds.), L’enseignement superieur dans le monde arabe: une question de niveau, Institut Francaise du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth.

  • (2005):  Bashshur, M. “Dualities and Entry Points in Attempts for Educational Reform in Arab Countries” [in Arabic] in Al-Amin, Adnan (ed.) Reform of General Education in Arab Countries, Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Beirut, pp 277-297.

  • (2005): Bashshur, M. “Quality Control in Higher Education in Arab States: An Overview” [in Arabic], in Adnan Al-Amin, Quality Assurance in Arab Universities, Lebanese Association For Educational Studies, Beirut, pp 113-180.

  • (2004): Bashshur, M. “The Education of Arab Children: A Framework for First Grade Elementary Students” [in Arabic], in Journal of Arab Children, Kuwait Society for the Advancement of Children, vol 5, No 20, pp.52-72.

  • (2004): Bashshur, M. Higher Education in the Arab States, Unesco Regional Bureau for Education in the Arab States, Beirut.

  • (2003): Bashshur, M. “Present Patterns of Education in Arab Countries: Contribution to Knowledge Society” [in Arabic] in UNDP, Arab Human Development Report , (38 pages); (a commissioned background paper.)

  • (2003): Bashshur, M. The Deepening Cleavage in the Educational System (of Lebanon)”, in Hanf, Theodor and Nawaf Salam (eds.), Lebanon in Limbo, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, pp 159-179. 

  • (2002): Bashshur, M. “School Twinning as a Reform Tool from the Base up” [in Arabic] in UNESCO (Lebanon); Seminar on Cooperation among Educational Institutions for Quality Improvement in Lebanon, Beirut. pp. 2-11 and 25-49.

  • (2002): Bashshur, M. (Ed.) Cooperation between Educational Institutions for Improving the Quality of Education in Lebanon. Beirut: Unesco.

  • (1999): Bashshur, M. “Educational Politics and Religion in the Nineties: Lebanon since Ta’if”, in Theodor Hanf (ed.), Dealing with Differences, Nomos Verlagsgesellscaft, Baden-Baden, Germany. pp. 213-216.

  • (1999): Bashshur, M. [ed.], The State and Education in Lebanon, Beirut, The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies.

    (1999): Bashshur, M. "State and Education in France and England" [in Arabic], in: Bashshur, M. [ed.], The State and Education in Lebanon, Beirut, The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, pp. 39-103.

  • (June 1997): Bashshur, M. "Views and Observations on Some Attempts in Planning and Developing Educational Strategies in Arab Countries" [in Arabic], Arab Journal of Education, Vol. 17, No.1, pp. 38-74.

  • (1997): Bashshur, M. "Views from the History and Geography of Higher Education in Lebanon" [in Arabic], Etudes Libanaises, 3/4, Autumn/Winter 1997, pp. 121-141.

  • (1997): Bashshur, M. "Higher Education in Lebanon: A Historical Review" [in Arabic], in: El-Amine, Adnan [directed by], Higher Education in Lebanon, Beirut, The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, pp. 39-103.

  • (1995): Bashshur, M. "Quality of Basic Education in Arab States" [in Arabic], in: El-Amine, Adnan [ed.], Planning for Improving Quality of Basic Education in Arab States, Beirut, UNESCO, pp. 135-164.

  • (1995): Bashshur, M. Arab Education: Education in the Arab World in the 21st Century [in Arabic], Beirut, Nelson Publishers, 110p.

  • (1993): Bashshur, M. "The Education in the 21st Century: Questions and Suggestions Regarding the Arab World" [in Arabic], Proceeding of the UNESCO Regional Office for the Arab World, and the Faculty of Environmental Health AUB, Beirut, pp. 151-204.

  • (1992): Bashshur, M. "Education and the Secular-Religious Debate: Illustrations from Lebanon", Gustave E. Von Grunebaum monograph series, Center for the Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, 24p.

  • (1990): Bashshur, M. "Education in Palestine in the Post-Catastrophe Period 1948 - 1985" [in Arabic], in Palestinian Encyclopedia Part II, Vol. III, Beirut, pp. 79-155.