The “How to Develop Young Historians?” program kicked off on January 13, 2017 with a group of 36 teachers from all the Lebanon regions. The first institute “From historical thinking to building causal reasoning in history classrooms” was facilitated by Nayla Hamadeh, Bassel Akar, Amira Hariri, and Amine Elias. In part I, participants engaged in…
In association with Euroclio and AHDR (Cyprus), LAH hosted on February 11-12, 2017 the second meeting for the ‘Learning (my) History, your history’ project. The team met in Beirut to continue working on cross national curriculum units. Under the guidance of Michael Riley, Jamie Byrom and Steven Stegers, teachers planned, reflected, gave and received feedback,…
LAH in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU) is launching its professional development program for 2017-2018 How do we make our students young historians? The program aims at building participants’ capacities to develop disciplinary approaches to teaching history, produce teaching material that promotes critical thinking and evidence-based research…
As part of our partnership with forum zfd, LAH actively participated in the seminar organized by the forum, on September 23, 2016, with representatives of youth organisations of several Lebanese political parties. The seminar aimed at opening a constructive dialogue about their particular role in memorialization and learning about the past.Building upon the idea that…
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Nationwide workshops to reach out to history teachers in all the regions. This project represents the second phase for the “Developing History Teachers Capacity to Foster Historical thinking” project implemented in 2014 – 2015.The new project planned for the academic year 2015 – 2016 aims at reaching a wider and more diverse group of history…
The closing ceremony for the “Developing History Teachers Capacity for Developing Historical Thinking” training program took place in November 30, 2015 at UNESCO palace in the presence of Dr. Nada Hassan, representative of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education. The program, which ran between October 2014 and September 2015, is an intensive training program…
The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Centre for Lebanese Studies, and Notre Dame University –Louaize is organizing a concluding ceremony for the Developing History Teachers’ Capacity to Foster Historical Thinking that extended over a year. This intensive training program involved a group of history…
LAH organizes for History teachers several Pedagogic Days every year. These events offer teachers the opportunity to apply model history lessons and get feedback from their colleagues. Teachers focus in their lesson planning on the use of historical concepts, varying teaching strategies, and the use of multimedia in the history classroom.The aim is, on one…
The Lebanese Association for History launched a comprehensive Professional Development project“Developing History Teachers’ Capacity to Foster Historical Thinking” for the academic year 2014 – 2015. This training program offers an opportunity for a group of history teachers to benefit from an exhaustive training program. The program introduces a new approach to history pedagogy in Lebanon and proposes refocusing history…