As the new school year begins, countries across the Middle East have been undertaking ambitious educational reforms, reflecting wider social and political transformations. These reforms have not emerged in a vacuum. Curriculum changes have become...
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IMPACT-ses latest review of the Saudi national curriculum evaluates textbooks currently taught in the 202223 school year, and looks at any changes made compared to previous editions. The report examined the entire humanities corpus over...
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This IMPACT-se report examines the textbooks of the 2023-24 academic school year to identify curricular changes. It pays particular attention to content highlighted in IMPACT-ses study of the Saudi curriculum from previous years. The analysis...
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IMPACT-se has released its 2022 annual update on Saudi textbooks, depicting an overall trend of improvement following major reforms since 2020. Whereas only a decade ago, focus was put on encouraging students to prepare for...
Read MoreThis latest IMPACT-se report on the Saudi Curriculum shows further dramatic improvements to Saudi Arabias school textbooks, continuing the significant changes seen in mid-2020 and documented in IMPACT-ses last Saudi textbook report. Over the last...
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Asher Spekterman is a professional Arabic translator and ...researcher, specializing in Middle Eastern conflicts. He has extensive experience teaching Arabic translation and researching
Where should education about gender identity and sexual orientation take place - in textbooks or through dedicated classroom programmes?
IMPACT-se's... analysis of LGBT issues in Israel's education system examines how these topics are addressed across both textbooks and Ministry of
A recent analysis in @the_hindu examines the gradual disappearance of political cartoons from Indian textbooks, prompting discussion about what is ...gained, and what may be lost, when visual satire is removed from the classroom.
Beyond cartoons themselves, the debate highlights
Last week a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between our partners at Monitor Impact and the @EmiratesScholar for Research & Studies in the ...UAE.
The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration in research, knowledge exchange, and joint initiatives, strengthening
The Daily Sun @dailysunbd recently reported on Bangladesh’s National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) decision to revise school textbooks to ...better reflect what it calls the country’s “true history.” The changes may include new material on the 2024 student-led uprising and
IMPACT-SE’s new report on Jordan’s textbooks finds that while the curriculum includes themes of peace, tolerance, and coexistence, these values ...are not consistently reflected throughout the material.
The study highlights positive examples, which encourage religious moderation
A recent analysis by @UNICEF reveals that more than one million Afghan girls have been denied the right to secondary education since 2021.
The ...findings highlight grave consequences that extend far beyond schools; restricting girls’ access to education affects a country’s health
IMPACT-se’s latest research on the Iranian school curriculum was featured in the @nypost, highlighting textbook content that includes classroom ...exercises calculating missile strike times, the vilification of the West, and imagery depicting violent attacks on civilians.
These
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Every IMPACT-se researcher brings a unique lens to the study of education and society.
Asher Spekterman is a professional Arabic translator and researcher, specializing in Middle Eastern conflicts. He has extensive experience teaching Arabic translation and researching
Where should education about gender identity and sexual orientation take place - in textbooks or through dedicated classroom programmes?
IMPACT-se's analysis of LGBT issues in Israel's education system examines how these topics are addressed across both textbooks and Ministry of
A recent analysis in @the_hindu examines the gradual disappearance of political cartoons from Indian textbooks, prompting discussion about what is gained, and what may be lost, when visual satire is removed from the classroom.
Beyond cartoons themselves, the debate highlights
