The ministry of education and higher education, with the support of the center of educational research and development, the British Council, the institute of citizenship and diversity management, and EUROCLIO organized a conference on teaching history in Lebanon: reality, experts and initiatives on the 30th of October 2017; attended by government representatives as well as…
How to Make our Students Young Historians? (Institute 4) October 06 and 07, 2017 The Lebanese Association for History, with collaboration of the Centre for the Lebanese Studies, is continuing the series of workshops on the capacity building of history teachers as part of its program: HOW TO MAKE OUR STUDENTS YOUNG HISTORIANS? for the academic…
As part of the Lebanese Association for History’s (LAH) project to learn about the various histories in Lebanon, a trip was organized by Jamal Arafat to Baalbek to explore the city’s unique cultural heritage and to foster dialogue and future collaboration with history teachers in Baalbek. The tour began at Baalbek’s old train station. Build…
Euroclio organised a workshop in July 2017 in Seoul to evaluate and develop the project “Dealing with the Past in History Education”.The overall objective is to create, empower and increase the impact of a global core group of civil society actors that have a mission and relevant experience on the promotion of responsible history education…
forumZFD and the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) in collaboration with the Barbir Hospital have organized an exhibition on “Sites of Commemoration in Lebanon: Towards a better understanding of the past”. The exhibition took place on Saturday, 29 April, 2017 from 11am to 2pm at the Barbir Hospital building, Mazraa-Mathaf road, Beirut.The exhibition is part…
The History Curriculum in Lebanon has not been changed since 1970. Different parties have been unable to agree on how to tackle the Lebanese Civil War. The recently established Lebanese Association for History (LAH) took the initiative to start addressing the civil war by organising a seminar in Beirut from 18-19 June on “Teaching and…
Maha Shuayb, Nayla Hamadeh, Amine Elias and Jihane Francis facilitated workshop 3 “Is Diversity a complex historical concept?” which took place on April 7-8, as part of the “How to make our students young historians?” program. Participants were engaged in a variety of activities to study diversity by looking at overt and covert similarities and…
Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity “Historians’ strategies for approaching evidence and exploring change and continuity” is the workshop facilitated by LAH members Bassel Akar, Maha Shuayb, Jihane Francis, and Amira Al Hariri. For two full days, participants experimented with the disciplinary approach for teaching history. They analyzed sources, investigated their…
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,…