Member of the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies

Name: Samir Ahmed Jarrar

E-Mail: sajarrar@hotmail.com

Degree:
Ph.D. in Teacher Education and International Development Education
Florida State University, 1976

Current Position:
Director of Rawdah High School

Chairman, Board of Trustees, Arab Resource Collective.


Specialty and Research Interests:
Education and Development in the Arab World

Publications (since 1990):

  • (2007): Jarrar, Samir A. “The School Textbook in the Arab World: Lebanon - A Case Study” [in Arabic], in Ayoub, F. (Ed.) The School Textbook: Its Role, Content, and Quality. The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies, Beirut, pp. 473-485.

  • (2002): Jarrar, Samir A. “Teacher Education in the Arab World: The Key to the 21st Century” in Sultana, Ronald G. Teacher Education in the Euro-Mediterranean Region. Peter Lang Publishing Inc., New York, pp. 1-24.

  • (2000) Jarrar, Samir A.  “Arab Educational Reform, Evolution or Revolution: What is needed? Lebanon – a Case Study”, in Welch, Graham F., Abd-El Mawgood, E., Ed., Educational Reform in the United Arab Emirates: A Global Perspective. Ministry of Education and Youth, UAE, pp. 313-323.

  • (1998): "Arab Education and the Imagined Duality: Modernization v.s. Westernization" [in Arabic], in: Arab Education and the New Age: The Kuwaiti Society for the Advancement of Arab Children, yearbook 13, pp. 55-90.

  • (1995): Jarrar, Samir A. [et al.],  Guide to Basic Skills for Training Teachers [in Arabic], UNICEF, Amman, Jordan.

  • (1993): Jarrar, Samir A. [et al.],  Core Skills for Training Teachers in Jordan: A Handbook, UNICEF, Amman, Jordan.

  • (1992): Jarrar, Samir A., Massialas, Byron G.,  "Educational Reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt", in: Cokson, Sadounk and Semel, [eds.], Handbook of International Education Reform, Greenwood Press, New York, pp. 149-167.

  • (1991): "Higher Education in Egypt", in: Altbach, P.G., [ed.], International Encyclopedia of Higher Education, New York, Garland Publishing, pp. 999-1013.

  • (1991): "Higher Education in Lebanon", in: Altbach, P.G., [ed.], International Encyclopedia of Higher Education, New York, Garland Publishing, pp. 1055-1063.

  • (1991): Massialas, Byron G., Jarrar, Samir A., Arab Education in Transition, Garland Publishing, New York.