4th Annual Conference of Educational Research Center on

Education for Innovation

March 24 and 25, 2012

Beirut, Lebanon

Educational Research Center (ERC) will hold its annual conference on March 24 and 25, 2012, in
Beirut, Lebanon, under the theme:

Education for Innovation

 

The conference will address the following issues:

1. Innovations in human life, the workplace and society at large which education should work for.

2. Research-based criteria and evidence required to ensure that education works for innovation.

3. Student and teacher profiles, and lifelong learning environments, required for desired
innovations to take place.

4. Efficient systemic and pedagogical innovations, with evidence drawn especially from
international comparative studies.

5. Efficient models of innovation in:
    a. Language education.
    b. Social studies education.
    c. Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education.
    d. e-learning and integration of digital means and resources.

6. School-University-Industry partnerships, and parents and community engagement, for
required innovations in education.

7. Challenges faced by all stakeholders in working for education for innovation.