Bassel Akar - Civil Society and Public Agency for History Education Reform

Описание: Plenary contribution by Bassel Akar (Porto - Portugal) - CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC AGENCY FOR HISTORY EDUCATION REFORM

Day 2 of the 2nd Public History Weekly World Conference
September 1 – 3, 2023: "Political Activism in and through Public History"

About the Speaker
Bassel Akar, PhD, is Associate Professor of Education and Director of the Center for Applied Research in Education at Notre Dame University – Louaize, Lebanon.
His research focuses on learning and teaching for active citizenship in the context of Lebanon and other sites affected by armed conflict. Recently, he has closely examined citizenship and history education teachers demonstrate their agency for curricular and pedagogical change through innovative approaches inside the classroom. Bassel also has a strong interest in approaches to empowering young people through participative research methodologies. In addition to citizenship education, he has led research projects that examine educational programs for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon and Jordan (formal, non-formal, early childhood), explore debates of approaches to history education, and investigate education for environmental sustainability in public schools.
Bassel has most recently published Citizenship education in conflict-affected areas: Lebanon and beyond (2019) and a book chapter, “An Emerging Framework for Providing Education to Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon” in Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe (2018).

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