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Ghosn-Chelala, Maria; Akar, Bassel – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Governments around the world have expressed various degrees of commitment to promoting approaches to environmental sustainability through their national curricular aims. Critical and dialogic pedagogies can support learning for environmental sustainability, but teachers in countries affected by armed conflict struggle to facilitate such pedagogies…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Sustainability
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Akar, Bassel – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2012
"National and Civic Education" is a program of study compulsory across all grade levels in Lebanon aimed at promoting social cohesion and active citizenship. A sample of 19 civics teachers in Lebanon across four of the six governorates participated in semi-structured interviews. The conversations delved into their conceptions of…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Civics, Rote Learning
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Akar, Bassel – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
Many educational programmes in societies affected by armed conflict aim to promote dialogic engagement as a fundamental aim and pedagogy for social reconstruction. Despite supporting government policies, classrooms show very little or no evidence of dialogic practices where learners (co-)construct knowledge with peers and engage in critical and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Observation, Reflection, Student Attitudes