List of contributors
Education for a Knowledge Society in Arabian Gulf Countries
ISBN: 978-1-78350-833-4, eISBN: 978-1-78350-834-1
ISSN: 1479-3679
Publication date: 15 April 2014
Citation
(2014), "List of contributors", Education for a Knowledge Society in Arabian Gulf Countries (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 24), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. ix-x. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-367920140000024006
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2014 Emerald Group Publishing Limited
| Naif H. Alromi | Public Education Evaluation Commission, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Saleh Alshumrani | Educational Department, King Saud University, and Public Education Evaluation Commission, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Mohamed Abdelraouf Attia | Faculty of Education, Islamic Education Department, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah al Mukarramah, Saudi Arabia |
| Donia Smaali Bouhlila | Department of Economics, Faculté des Sciences Economiques et de Gestion de Tunis, Université de Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia |
| Hanan Salah El-Deen Mohamed El-Halawany | Department of Islamic Studies and Comparative Education, School of Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Arfan Ismail | CfBT Education Trust, Saudi Arabia |
| Daniel John Kirk | Emirates College for Advanced Education, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| Michael Lightfoot | Bahrain Teachers College, University of Bahrain, Manama, Southern Governorate, Bahrain |
| Fiona Patrick | School of Education, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK |
| Justin J. W. Powell | University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| Alan S. Weber | Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Education City, Qatar |
| Ilene K. Winokur | Gulf University for Science and Technology, Masjid Al Aqsa St, Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait |
| Alexander W. Wiseman | College of Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA |
- Education for a knowledge society in Arabian Gulf countries
- International perspectives on education and society
- Education for a knowledge society in arabian gulf countries
- Copyright page
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Challenges to creating an Arabian Gulf knowledge economy
- Philosophy, language policy and the knowledge society
- Education, development and sustainability in Qatar: A case study of economic and knowledge transformation in the Arabian Gulf
- Building a knowledge society on sand – When the modernist project confronts the traditional cultural values in the Gulf
- From centralized education to innovation: Cultural shifts in Kuwait’s education system
- The “Singapore of the middle east”: The role and attractiveness of the Singapore model and TIMSS on education policy and borrowing in the Kingdom of Bahrain ☆ This chapter was written during a transition between positions. The author was on faculty at Macon State College (now Middle Georgia State College), USA, during the early stages of manuscript development and subsequently moved to Abu Dhabi, UAE, to begin a new position in educational research shortly after presentation of this paper at the 2012 Gulf Research Meeting.
- Postgraduate students’ perceptions toward online assessment: The case of the faculty of education, Umm Al-Qura university
- New horizons of integrating ICTs in Egyptian initial teacher education
- The impact of socioeconomic status on students’ achievement in the Middle East and North Africa: An essay using the TIMSS 2007 database
- Making the transition to a ‘knowledge economy’ and ‘knowledge society’: Exploring the challenges for Saudi Arabia
- University roots and branches between “glocalization” and “mondialisation”: Qatar’s (inter)national universities
- Strategically planning the shift to a Gulf knowledge society: The role of big data and mass education
- About the authors
- Subject index