Education and the Arab Spring Resistance, Reform, and Democracy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mohamed, Eid (Editor), Gerber, Hannah R. (Editor), Aboulkacem, Slimane (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

Education and the Arab Spring: Resistance, Reform, and Democracy explores the current debate about education in the Middle East and North Africa post-Arab Spring. It draws from a variety of conceptual frameworks rooted in different disciplines and fields, such as education, religious and cultural st...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter Abstracts
• Education, Democracy, and the Arab Spring: An Introduction
• Section One: Classroom Issues and Teacher Professional Development Struggles Post-Arab Spring
• Teaching for Democracy in Post-Arab Spring: Challenges & Opportunities
• Arab Spring and Teacher Professional Development in Egypt: A Case Study
• Section Two: Youth Education and the Seeds of Social Change
• Democracy as Student Mobilization: How Student Unions Struggle for Change in Egypt
• Vulnerability of the Tunisian Education System: A Pendulum Swing between Reality and Hope
• Youth & Revolution: A Call to Reform Higher Education in Yemen
• Section Three: Ideologies, Religion, and Education after the Arab Spring
• Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait after the Arab Spring: Identity Construction & Ideologies of Domination in the American University of Kuwait
• Non-Muslim Students and Religious Education in Egyptian Classrooms
• Al-Azhar: The Challenge of Reforming Religious Education in Egypt
• About the Contributors
• Index.