• Yearbook 6: Higher Teacher Education Institutions in Arab Countries

Coordinator: Dr. Samir Jarrar

The project aims at giving descriptive, comparative, evaluative and analytical studies on higher teacher education institutions in a number of Arab countries. It especially deals with the following themes: the programs and curricula of higher teacher education institutions, their links with in-service teacher training, role of teacher training faculties in higher education, higher teacher education institutions and educational development, and educational research and dissemination of educational knowledge in teacher training faculties.

 

To that end, a regional conference was held in Beirut on 7-9 December, 2007, where 13 papers were presented, in addition to a roundtable discussion. The papers dealt with theoretical frameworks, the reality of teacher training in the Arab World, and presented analytical and case studies. The Lebanese Association for Educational Studies is currently in the process of publishing the proceedings of this conference in the form of its Sixth Yearbook.

• Arab Educational Information Network (SHAMAA)

Coordinator: Dr. Adnan El Amine

Shamaa is an Arab Educational Information Network, established through an initiative by the Lebanese Association for Educational Studies (LAES). Shamaa is a database of the educational sources that have appeared in the Arab Countries since 1/1/2007. Shamaa covers books, articles, MA theses and Ph.D. dissertations, written in Arabic, French, and English. During the first stage (2 years), the information in Shamaa is limited to bibliographical data (without abstracts), such as author name, title, place and date of publication, number of pages, etc. Also Shamaa provides the contact information of the publisher. The user of Shamaa may access it by descriptor, title, author name or any keyword. For more information please visit www.shamaanet.org.