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Professional Background

Lecturer

Educational Background

Ed.D., Columbia University Teachers College; Ed.M., Harvard University Graduate School of Education; B.A., Yale University

Scholarly Interests

Educational policy and research within conflict/post-war and development contexts; the politics of international educational development and international educational research; critical approaches to education for social and political change, including curriculum, policy, and pedagogy; language policy and bilingualism; research methods; education in the Middle East.

Selected Publications

Zakharia, Z. (in press, c2010). (Re)constructing policy in a Shiite school in Lebanon. In K. Menken, & O. García (Eds.), Negotiating language policies in classrooms: Teachers as change agents. Routledge/Taylor and Francis.

Zakharia, Z. (2009). Positioning Arabic in schools: Language policy, national identity, and development in contemporary Lebanon. In F. Vavrus, & L. Bartlett (Eds.), New approaches to comparative education: Vertical case studies from Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas. Palgrave.

Zakharia, Z. (2009). Language-in-education policies in contemporary Lebanon: Youth perspectives. In O. Abi-Mershed (Ed.), Trajectories of education in the Arab World: Legacies and challenges. New York & London: Routledge.
 
Zakharia, Z. (2009, May 14). Education and violent political conflict. Review and commentary: Harvard Educational Review, Education in violent political conflict (Symposium). Harvard Educational Publishing Group Blog. Available online at: http://www.hepg.org/blog/17.
 
Zakharia, Z. (2008). Heteroglossic bilingual education policy: The Arab Middle East and North Africa. In O. García, Bilingual education in the 21st Century:A global perspective (pp. 276-280). Oxford: Blackwell.
 
Zakharia, Z. (2007). Book review: A. M. Y. Lin, & P. W. Martin (Eds.), Decolonisation, globalization: Language-in-education policy and practice. Language Policy, 7(2), 179-181.

Zakharia, Z., & Arnstein, T. (Eds.). (2005). Languages, communities, and education. New York: Society for International Education, Teachers College.

Burde, D., Arnstein, T., Pagen, C., & Zakharia, Z. (Eds.). (2004). Education in emergencies and post-conflict situations: Problems, responses, and possibilities. New York: Society for International Education, Teachers College.

Zakharia, Z. (2004). How schools cope with war: A case study of Lebanon. In D. Burde, T. Arnstein, C. Pagen, & Z. Zakharia (Eds.), Education in emergencies and post-conflict situations: Problems, responses, and possibilities (pp. 107-117). New York: Society for International Education, Teachers College.
 
Bartlett, L., Kleifgen, J., Matarese, M., Michael, A., & Zakharia, Z. (2004). Education of literacy teachers in the BMENA region. Washington, DC: U.S. Agency for International Development.


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Zeena Zakharia

Lecturer

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