Examination of the 1997 Curriculum in Lebanon

Year 2021, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 83 - 101, 30.06.2021

Eslam Aljaafil , Ömer Beyhan

Abstract

Through education and only education a fragmented society can be rebuilt and developed. In order to reach this aim, a country’s education system should be carefully considered, planned, organized, applied and evaluated. However, in a politically and economically unstable country like Lebanon, the Lebanese society went through several conflicts which laid its adverse effect on the education sector. Therefore, in order to plan for a better future and a better education system, first we need to determine and analyze the factor which led to the fall back of the Lebanese public curriculum. This research has a qualitative research design and it aims to investigate the stakeholders’ perspectives with the help of the data obtained by face-to-face interviews and focus groups. The study depicts the stakeholders’ frustration regarding the currently used curriculum as they all agreed and stressed the importance of developing a new curriculum which suits the students’ needs and abilities. Also, their responses indicated the presence of several problems and gaps within curriculum elements itself.

Keywords

Curriculum, Education history, Education system, Lebanon, Stakeholders

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