Under the themes of Education, Social Justice, refugees, and Disabilities, CLS has dedicated human and financial resources to create spaces where critical and interdisciplinary discussions around curriculum reform can take place where scholars, researchers, practitioners and the wider society can create knowledge, draw strategies, initiative advocacy campaign to influence collaborative, inclusive, contextual, relevant and sustainable curriculum reform. 

The Curriculum Reform Conference 2022 engages with curriculum reform in the region with a social justice-oriented approach. This conference is part of CLS’s continued efforts to promote a dialogue on education, curriculum reform and social justice. The Curriculum Reform conference 2022 builds on the results of the CLS’s first conference on curriculum reform held in January and February 2021. It also builds on the main findings of the eight National Consultation sessions with key actors in the community that took place across Lebanon in July and August 2021. Through this conference we aimed to continue facilitating the space to engage with and critically discuss issues related to curriculum reform with a social justice lens. Seven presentations by eight academics and practitioners from four countries (Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and Morocco) took place during the one-day conference focusing on the following key themes:

• The ideologies underpinning curriculum reform in the region.  
• Unpacking power dynamics that manifest in the processes of curriculum reform.
• Curriculum reform and knowledge production
• Values education in Arab Curricula: Citizenship and Transparency 
• Refugee Education and building of identity 

The conference took place online and was live streamed on Facebook.