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…
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…
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…
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…
Within its commitment to enrich the discussion about the national curricula, LAH organized in collaboration with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, and the Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut a public lecture entitled “The Strife for the History Curriculum: The Case of Lebanon and England”. The lecture aimed to open…
The Lebanese Association for History in collaboration with the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands, the Center for Applied Research in Education at Notre Dame University-Louaize, and the Centre for Lebanese Studies has the pleasure of inviting you to the launching of « Developing History Teachers’ Capacity to Foster Historical Thinking » that provides a…