The first phase of the Teacher Training program was launched in partnership with UNDP Lebanon. Four groups of history teachers and civics coordinators will meet during the first week (10-13 November) . In the first round, we worked on building collaborative working groups,trained on digital learning methods, and began training participants on Microsoft Teams for…
For the sake of everyone’s safety, the General Assembly meeting was held online on October 23 via Google Meets. It was a very productive meeting and a good number of members took part in it. We look forward to the next meeting in December!
The Local History project’s wrap up meeting took place online on September 30 Via Zoom. Artists, teachers, facilitators and the management and curriculum teams gathered for an all-day meeting to reflect on students’ learning experiences, discuss learning approaches and pedagogies, and finally to brainstorm on the next steps. We are looking forward to embarking on…
Amid everything we are going through, LAH organized a 2-day workshop/retreat at the beautiful Bkerzay, Chouf. On the first day, the team members were given the safe space to share their feelings and thoughts after all the challenges faced through fun activities. And on the second day, members and partners of LAH joined as the…
In the framework of the “TOWARDS A NEW HISTORY CURRICULUM” project, the working team met to share feedback on the progress of the materials. The discussion focused on the proposed learning materials and their relevance in pushing students to the basic question and developing their intellectual and research skills. The project is based on the…
A new workshop for artists and teachers contributing to the joint LAH-forumZFD project “From Local History to a Better Understanding of the Past” has taken place on February 7-8. Participants were exposed to the fields of dealing with the past and oral history. We also tackled approaches to introducing the civil war to students, in…
Working Teams for the “From Local History to a Wider Understanding of the Past” joint LAH-forumZFD project have been formed. Students, artists and teachers met on February 22 at Rabitat Sayyidat Choueifat. Public Secondary schools’ students who have participated in the oral history project last year, got introduced to different art mediums to make their…
“A LEAP TOWARDS THE DIGITAL WORLD IN HISTORY EDUCATION: LEBANON AND THE ARAB WORLD” is launched by LAH in collaboration with CLS. The project involves the creation a Resource Management System (RMS), MASSADER, to support history teachers in Lebanon and the Arab World. The first workshop kicked off at LAU on 17 February, with participation…
The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) at LAU and the Lebanese Association for History (LAH) are on a mission to transform how students in Lebanon learn history.According to CLS Director Dr. Maha Shuayb, the teaching of history in Lebanon has been “hijacked by politicians,” and the textbooks used by students across the country have not…
