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SP 008 467 TITLE Education and Modernization in Egypt. Selections DOCUMENT RESUME ED 097 309 SP 008 467 AUTHOR Salah El-Din Kotb, Tusef, Ed. TITLE Education and Modernization in Egypt. Selections from Seminars Organized by Ain Shams University, Cairo for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (1972 and 19731 . INSTITUTION Ain Shams Univ., Cairo (Egypt). SPONS AGENCY American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 74 NOTE 226p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.75 BC-$11.40 PLUS POSTAGE DESCRIPTORS *Culture; *Economic Development; *Education; *Educational Planning; *Foreign Countries; Foreign Culture; Non Western Civilization IDENTIFIERS *Egypt; Modernization ABSTRACT This book presents selections from seminars whose purpose was to provide American teacher educatorsand faculty from related disciplines with a first-hand exposure to the modernization process in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Theanalysis of this topic focuses on three major areas affected in the modernization process: education, culture, and economic development. (The book is divided into sections for each of these areas as well as a fourth section which presents an orientation and general introdwItion to Egypt.) The contributors present an overview of the impact cf modernization on Egyptian life and institutions. The specific topics covered under the three general themes of education, culture, and economic development are diverse. The volume, therefore, presents aseries of perspectives rather than a set of closely integrated sector analyses; the perspectives, however, are those of Egyptian specialists in three areas. (Author/JA) 444 S DEPARTMENTS, NEALTN. MN SNA/MI IMMIRINTY BONCIN(11111 *smuts NATIONAL INStiTUTIrNA ' =11111101ND INUEATION THIS 00CuPPEN? HAS REIN REPRO Dotal) ENACTLv AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGIN ACING It ;Bemis or VIEW OR 00iNIONS StAtED DO NOT NECESSARILY ROPES 141141 OFFICIAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OP EOutaliON POSItION ON POLICY EDUCATION AND MODERNIZATION IN EGYPT CD Selections from Seminars Organised Pat*ario*k44, ,CAIRO THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES FOR TEACHER EDUCATION ( 1972 and 1973 ) Mar SALMI ELIN Editor AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY PRESS PREFACE By FRANK H. KLASSEN * This volume presents a series of lectures by educators, scholars and government officials on the modernization process in Egypt.The analysis of this topic focuses on three major areas affected by the process education, culture and economic development.The contribu- tors preAent an overview of the pervasive impact of the modernization process on Egyptianlife and institutions. Planned change toward improvement in the quality of life becomes both a goal to be achieved and an organizing principle to guide social interaction and the alleca- thnt of society's resources.The impetus toward change is based on the aspirations of broad segments of society whose members must share the responsibilities that come with modernization and learn to cope with the threat to prevailing values, social arrangements and inherited privilege. Contributors to this volume attempt to describe and analyse the broad paged impact of modernization on Egypt and to detail the Pew objectives, functions and roles that various social agencies, such as education, are acquiring in the process. The specific topics covered under the three general themes of education, culture and economic development are diverse.The reader I., thus presented with a series of perspectives rather than as set of close:;;,ttegrated sector analyses. the perspectives, however, are those of Eggptian specialists whose research, experience and planning responsibilities have given them a special insight into the dynamics of the modernization process. The publication of this resource book on Egyptian development is a product of international collaboration between Ain Shams Univer- sity and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. In 1972 and 1973, Dr. Yusef Sa lah El-Din Kotb, former president of Ain Shams University and AACTE established a faculty seminar series on Egypt for American college and university personnel with the support of grants from the Institute of International Studies, USOE. The purpose of the seminars was to provide American teacher educators Associate Director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education ( AACTE ). IV and faculty from related disciplines with aninternational, instructional experience under the tutelage of specialists fromanother culturean experience that would lead to the incorporation of aninternational dimension in American education.Through this publication the intel- lectual output of the seminars is made available to abroader educa- tional public leading, hopefully, to an increasedunderstanding of contemporary Egypt and to stronger ties betweenEgyptian and American faculty and institutions. The impact of this international collaboration hasbeen further enhanced by inter-institutional cooperation in the United Stater:which was coordinated by the PennsylvaniaCouncil for International Educa- tion and a consortium of institutions in Colorado andUtah under the leadership of Southern Colorado State College andAACTE. The AACTE nsknowledges with appreciation its debt to AinShams Univer- sity, Dr. Salah Kotb, the contributors to this volumeand the American participants in the program. FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN EGYPT 1972 and 1973 DIRECTOR (W PROJECTS IN THE UNITED STATES Dr. Frank H. Klassen, Associate Director. AACTE. DIRECTOR OP PROJECTS IN EGYPT Dr. Teed WO EIDla Kolb, Fortner President. Ain Shams University. Cairn. SUPPORT 'TM:Jr IN EGYPT Mohamed Hamel Karnali, General Secretary, Ain Shams University. Hussein Await Controller. Ain Shams University. Retaat Makmoud EI-Sakaan. Director of Public Relations. Ain Shams University. Tapir Hossein. Ain Shams University. Mohamed Abdel Harnid (11172) Ain Shams University. Mohamed Abdel Makseud (1573) Ain Shams University. Miss Leyte EISharnotthi (IS Ain Shams University. Miss Seuheir Mommad (ISM Ain Shams University. U.S. PARTICIPANTS IN THE 1972SEMINAR ( June 6 July 29 ) Dr. 51ahmuud Fahmy ( Grump Leader 1 Assistant Professor Fdcation. Wilkes colleit. Wilkesllarre. Pennsylvania1$70:1 Dr. Sally J. Baker Assistant Professiar lit Psychology. Eli/allethtown College.Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania 17022. Dr. Hugo Barmen Aisociate it.Edinta,.to State colkge. Edinim% Pennsylvania 16412. Dr. Robert I.. Bradford Department of Political Science. SusquehannaUniversity. Selinsgrove. Pennsylvania 17s70. De. Ellen Irene Dims 14,rgati State t 4.11eg, 11tirland 2121.1. Dr. Paul E. Gill Pennsylvania 11257. Pr4itesslr shippenstairg State t allege, Shippnsburg. Dr. Joseph W. Glass Associate Professor of (;(...ttrapne,minrsville state (-allege. Millersville. Pennsylvania 17331. Dr. Richard lenses Associate Diercotr AAt IF'Me Dupont circle. Washington. 201136. Dr. John William Johnston Assistant Professor of History. Lock Haven Statecollege. Lock Haven. Pennsylvania 17745. Sister Christian Koontz Division'ifliumanitic%. Mercyhorst College. Erie.Pennsylvania 16501. Dr. Louis A. Petrone Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania 15213. Schf x of Education. University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Maddens Piotrowski Department of learnitin Resources Illoonsborr.Stale college. Blomsburg. Pentryl- vania 1715. Dr. Jane 1. Smith Department of Religii,a stotlieo. 'the PermsvIvania state University.t7niversity Park. Pennsylvania 16402. Dr. Richard strayer Director of Educational Media. Wait ('hesterState College, West Chester, Pennsyl- ania Mrs. Eleanor B. Morgan (AdministrutiveAssistant) Univcrsity ttwO-Ireh. PitehurfOl. Pin4vivank 15'213 U.S. PARTICIPANTS IN THE 1973 SEMINAR ( Juno 19 August II ) Pr. William Eagan ( Group Leader ) ?Meson' of History, Southern Colorado State cidllege. Pueblo, Calory% 81001. Dr. EdIth W. Nacho Associate Professor Conrutnator, Flemen:ary Edw Ation, Fort Lewis College, Lurrango, Colorado 111301 Ilr. John J. Cotton Professor, H.P.E.R., Admits State College, Alamosa, Colorado 81102. Dr. Earl L. Grosses Assistant Pmfessor, Colt N;e of Education, Brigham Young University, 157 McKay Bldg. Provo, Utah s460'2. Or. Linwood Hodgdon Professor of sociology, colors& State College, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521. Dr. Ladd Hok Director, Student Teaching Office, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Utah 84112. Dr. Dorothy Jane Van Hoogstrate Professor of Inflows% Loretto Heights College, Denver, Colorado 80236. Dr. Robert McKean Professor of Education, University of Colorado. Boulder, Colorado 80302. 1)r.liaise P. Parkinson Director, Cirriculum Development and Research. Weber State College. Ogden, Utah 84403. Dr. Robert L Strader Associate Professor, Education. Southern Colorado State College, Pueblo, Colorado $ 1001. Mrs. Susie Eagan (Administrative Assistant) Southern Colorado State College. Pueblo.t .lrado 81001 Srlfte GUided %%huh; rrri Weep/ins for Nor Sciiiirrie I;rfoups rut' Background Information about Mood ion awl Milli. rim I ifm in Egypt. Ain Shams Unixersitv Faculty of Education, Ain Shams University. to meet Faculty inen:bers. The Students' Union of Ain Shams University. to meet some of the student. The Faculty Club of Ain Shams University, to meet Faculty members. The Commeniernent for the Graduante Studies, Ain Shams Unicersic.. the University of Alexandria. The American University in Lain,. 'The Higher Institute of Technology at Ifelwan. The National Center for Scientific Research. lb-kki AM Shams !is...sting club a whole 4401. Sets EILayan Center for Functional Literacy. The Audio Visual Aids center, Ministry of Educate. r, The Syndicate of 'reaching Protessions.
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