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SUMMARY:How Can Education Promote Social Cohesion? The case of Lebanon - M
 aha Shuayb\, Senior Fellow\, Centre for Lebanese Studies\, University of C
 ambridge
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:Over the past two decades\, the role of education in promoting
  social cohesion has re-occupied the minds of policy-makers and educationa
 lists -- given the mounting pressure to address the various threats to soc
 ial integration such as\, increased social pluralism\, individualism\, mul
 ti-culturalisim\, civic apathy\, immigration\, ethno-religious and civil c
 onflicts. Despite the abundance in literature researching different aspect
 s of social cohesion\, there is little clarity in policy-related and acade
 mic discussions about the role of education in promoting social cohesion. 
 My talk will focus on Lebanon and the manifold approaches which are implem
 ented to promote social cohesion in the post- civil war era. The research 
 I undertook focused on the impact of these approaches on young people’s 
 political and civic attitudes as well as practices. The findings that this
  research project yielded highlighted a number of effective educational pr
 actices that could help promote social cohesion in an effective manner.\n\
 nMaha Shuayb is currently the CLS Senior Fellow at the University of Cambr
 idge. Prior to that Maha was the CLS senior fellow at the University of Ox
 ford\, St Antony's College. Maha was also a senior researcher for two year
 s at the National Foundation for Educational Research. Maha graduated from
  the Lebanese University and continued her post-graduate studies in Englan
 d. She\ngraduated from the University of Cambridge with PhD in Education. 
 Her research focuses  on the socio-political effect of education in Lebano
 n. She is currently conducting and directing an action research where she 
 is piloting the impact of adopting a holistic and multi-dimensional approa
 ch to social cohesion as opposed to a\nsubject based one on students' poli
 tical and civic attitudes and skills. \n\nShe is currently publishing a bo
 ok on the role of education in promoting social cohesion.\n
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, room 2S5
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