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Education for a knowledge society in Arabian Gulf countries /
The worldwide shift towards a knowledge society and information based economy requires educational policy makers to re-evaluate their understanding of the knowledge and skills students need in order to achieve national development goals. This shift has influenced curriculum development, teacher prep...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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United Kingdom :
Emerald,
2014.
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| Colección: | International perspectives on education and society ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Challenges to creating an Arabian Gulf knowledge economy / Alexander W. Wiseman, Naif H. Alromi, Saleh Alshumrani
- Philosophy, language policy and the knowledge society / Arfan Ismail
- Education, development and sustainability in Qatar : a case study of economic and knowledge transformation in the Arabian Gulf / Alan S. Weber
- Building a knowledge society on sand : when the modernist project confronts the traditional cultural values in the Gulf / Michael Lightfoot
- From centralized education to innovation : cultural shifts in Kuwait's education system / Ilene K. Winokur
- 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 / Daniel John Kirk
- Postgraduate students perceptions toward online assessment : the case of the faculty of education, Umm Al-Qura university / Mohamed Abdelraouf Attia
- New horizons of integrating ICTs in Egyptian initial teacher education / Hanan Salah EL-Deen Mohamed EL-Halawany
- The impact of socioeconomic status on students achievement in the Middle East and North Africa : an essay using the TIMSS 2007 database / Donia Smaali Bouhlila
- Making the transition to a knowledge economy and knowledge society : exploring the challenges for Saudi Arabia / Fiona Patrick
- University roots and branches between "glocalization" and "mondialisation" : Qatar's (inter)national universities / Justin J.W. Powell
- Strategically planning the shift to a Gulf knowledge society : the role of big data and mass education / Alexander W. Wiseman.