📚 Save Big on Books! Enjoy 10% off when you spend £100 and 20% off when you spend £200 (or the equivalent in supported currencies)—discount automatically applied when you add books to your cart before checkout! 🛒

Book cover placeholder

Copyright

Linda Herrera;

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-701-8
Hardback978-1-80511-702-5
PDF978-1-80511-703-2
HTML978-1-80511-705-6
EPUB978-1-80511-704-9

Language

  • English

THEMA

  • JNF
  • 1QFG
  • JP
  • 1FB

BISAC

  • EDU034000
  • EDU043000
  • EDU039000
  • EDU016000
  • SOC042000

Keywords

  • Egypt
  • Education reform
  • Digital transformation
  • Public education
  • Hybrid learning
  • Distance learning

    Education 2.0

    Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt

    • Linda Herrera (author)
    FORTHCOMING
    Education 2.0 offers a compelling portrait of Egypt’s bold attempt to overhaul its public education system amid sweeping political and technological transformation. Drawing on extensive oral history interviews, this book traces the launch and rollout of the ‘New Education System’ initiated by the Ministry of Education in 2018, designed to modernize curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment in the digital age and change the ‘culture of learning’. The volume moves fluidly from macro-level state planning to the lived experiences of teachers and students, exploring the promises and pitfalls of top-down reform.

    Conducted partly during the Covid-19 pandemic, the research captures Egypt’s first large-scale experiment with hybrid and distance learning. Interviews with key actors—from policymakers and tech developers to students and educators—reveal competing visions, unintended consequences, and the challenges of culturally transforming education systems in a middle-income country where private tutoring is rife, the sector is chronically under resourced, and politics overshadows policy.

    This book is essential reading for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in education reform, digital transformation, and the role of the state in shaping learning futures in the Global South. It is also an excellent case study for courses in Middle East studies and comparative and international education.

    Endorsements

    This book makes a very valuable contribution to the literature, offering a rich, multi-perspective and multi-level account of an ambitious reform effort in Egypt. It will be a useful resource for education researchers, policy makers, and graduate students in education and social policy fields in the country. The volume would also serve as an attractive case study to include in graduate courses in comparative and international education around the world.

    Mark B. Ginsburg

    Unversity of Maryland-College Park

    Contributors

    Linda Herrera

    (author)
    Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Linda Herrera is a professor in the department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a social anthropologist with regional expertise in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with longstanding interests in education and power, youth and citizenship, and international development and critical democracy. See the website, https://lindaherrera.net Herrera’s books include 'Educating Egypt: Civic values and ideological struggles'. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022, and (with A. Bayat, 'Global Middle East. Into the twenty-first century' Oakland: University of California Press, 2021.