Copyright

Linda Herrera

Published On

2025-11-17

Page Range

pp. 217–238

Language

  • English

Print Length

22 pages

13. Redesigning the Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century

Interview with Nawal Shalaby

  • Linda Herrera (author)
The Education 2.0 reform represented the largest leap in curriculum development since the establishment of the Center for Curriculum and Instructional Materials Development Center (CCIMD) in 1989. Its director Dr. Nawal Shalaby, led efforts with her team to draft new curriculum frameworks and oversee the production of the new books. They worked with representatives from private textbooks companies and UNICEF, among other experts. She talks about the history of curriculum development in Egypt, the necessity for more teacher training and preparation at the faculties of education, and the need for effective monitoring to know if and how the objectives of Education 2.0 are being realized on the ground.

Contributors

Linda Herrera

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

Linda Herrera is Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership in the Global Studies in Education program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was director of the Education 2.0 Research and Documentation Project in Egypt and served as an international education advisor. A social anthropologist with expertise in the Middle East and North Africa, her research and teaching cover a range of areas including education and power, youth studies, citizenship education and critical democracy, technology and society, and international education development. Her books include, Educating Egypt: Civic Values and Ideological Struggles (American University in Cairo Press, 2022), Global Middle East: Into the Twenty-First Century (with A. Bayat, University of California Press, 2021), Revolution in the Age of Social Media (Verso, 2014), Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East (Routledge, 2014), Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (with A. Bayat, Oxford University Press, 2010), and Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (with C. A. Torres, State University of New York Press, 2006).