In Lebanon’s current sociopolitical climate, teachers and students are facing severe challenges both in and outside the classroom, which is putting the traditional teaching approach to the test. Lack of resources, electricity cuts, no internet or an expensive low-quality connection, and high students drop-out rates – particularly in public schools with second shifts to accommodate…
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About the study In 2018, CLS was awarded the prestigious Lyle Spencer grant of 951,519 USD, to conduct a comparative and longitudinal study of refugee education. The study, “My future five years from now” examines and contrasts education programs and practices for refugees in Australia, Lebanon and Turkey over a five-year period (2018-2023). These countries offer…
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Four staff members of the Centre for Lebanese Studies and one independent researcher attended a week long training on Regional Forced Migration at Moi University in Nairobi, Kenya during August 2019, organized by the Peace Institute. The training was an intensive introduction to refugee and forced displacement issues to a select group of scholars, practitioners…
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CLS launches an interdisciplinary study on refugee education and employment, and the links between the two. The Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) at LAU is not new to bringing the plight of refugee and underprivileged populations to the forefront of academic research in hope of understanding and producing more educated strategies for addressing the crisis. Most recently,…
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Background: Healing the Wounds of History (HWH) is a program by the Centre for Lebanese Studies (CLS) launched in November 2011 to help healing the unresolved, deeper roots of violence unconsciously activated in the present from previous generations. The challenges faced by Lebanon and the region are self-evident where cycles of violence have played out repeatedly…
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A program hosted by NC State’s Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies is transforming the way Lebanese teachers educate students about their country’s history. The program, a collaboration with the Lebanese Association for History, brought teachers to campus last summer to learn about the latest scholarship on Lebanon and to master new, innovative tools to develop public history.…
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A two-week workshop from July 20 till August 03, 2019 at North Carolina State University entitled “History Education and the Use of Archives”. The workshop is followed by an educational exhibition in Lebanon during summer 2020. ONLINE APPLICATION DOWNLOAD APPLICATION
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