Copyright

Nariman Moustaf; Linda Herrera;

Published On

2025-11-17

Page Range

pp. 291–310

Language

  • English

Print Length

20 pages

17. National Geographic Learning Joins Education 2.0

Interview with Tom Kelley

  • Nariman Moustafa (author)
  • Linda Herrera (author)
Chapter of: Education 2.0: Chronicles of Technological and Cultural Change in Egypt(pp. 291–310)
National Geographic Learning entered a partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Education and Technical Education in 2020 to provide books for Grades 4-6. The company’s cultural expert Tom Kelley describes how they developed materials in print and digital formats for the traditional subjects English and Social Studies, and two new subjects, Career Skills, and Information and Communication Technology. He explains the process of collaboration with the Center for Curriculum and Instructional Materials Development to ensure the books were suited to the local context and reflects on cultural and political sensitivities around Social Studies. He recalls the sense of pride for all involved in being able to offer Egyptian students high quality books with stunning visuals.

Contributors

Nariman Moustafa

(author)

Nariman Moustafa holds an M.Ed. from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. She is a Senior Research Associate at EdTech Hub, the president of the initiative for self-discovery and development, a co-founder of the Ecoversities Alliance, and a visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Universal Education and the Center for Lebanese Studies at the American University in Beirut. Her research focuses on decoloniality and social justice in education, and more recently on EdTech.

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).