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Education is not only for knowing, but it also plays a pivotal role in constituting what a person is, what he will be, and how she positions herself in personal, social, or societal life contexts. All those life contexts are interpreted, experienced, and constructed by people themselves. The resulting narratives are sometimes explicit and verbalized, sometimes implicit and unelected. One of the most inspiring thoughts in Bill Doll’s theorizing of curriculum has been the ground-breaking analyses of ghosts. The ghost is a powerful metaphor, character in a narrative, related to understanding the life world. The workshop will be on 18/02/2021. Place: [...]

ELT 3 Elective: Education from a Critical Lens In this course, we try to understand education from a critical lens. But what is “critical lens”? In order to answer this question, we will ask even more questions and will discuss different answers. We ask questions about what makes us human beings. Are we machines just like computers? Are we animals just like apes? Why do humans have schools? To answer these questions, we will discuss topics like the purpose of schools in society, the meanings of literacy, reading and writing and other similar topics. By having meaningful conversations about these topics, [...]

Dear ELT students,  Please be informed that you will have elective courses to be taken except 2nd graders as explained down below: 2nd Grade - GEN 226 Multimedia Technologies (Ms. Slver)   (Must be taken) 3rd Grade - ELT 370 Education from a Critical Lens (Dr. Abdulrahman Wahab)   (Elective)                     ELT 486 Technology Assisted Language Teaching (Dr. Venera Ulker)   (Elective) 4th Grade - ELT 470 Teaching for Transformation (Dr. Abdulrahman Wahab)   (Elective)

Group advisors: 2A - Ms. Fatima Saadi Room 226 (starting from 14:00) Email: fatima.saadi@tiu.edu.iq 2B - Mr. Hiwa Fuad Room 225 (starting from 14:00)     Email: hiwa.fuad@tiu.edu.iq 3A - Dr. Unal Ulker Room 239 (starting from 9:30)        Email: unal.ulker@tiu.edu.iq 3B - Mr. Sami Hussein Room 225 (starting from 9:30)   Email: sami.hussein@tiu.edu.iq 4 - Mr. Ahmed Ariwan Room 206 (starting from 9:30)   Email: ahmed.ariwan@tiu.edu.iq

Dear Student, The registration for the Spring term will start on January 31, 2021. Before you come to your group advisor to confirm the registration please make sure that: your account is active. If you are able to select the courses, it means that your account is active (if not see the Account Office 140) you have selected the courses in your SIS account (see the tutorial here http://tiu.edu.iq/tiu-tutorials/ After the selection of the courses, send an email/message to your advisor (you can attach/send the photo of the payment slip and the screenshot of the selected courses. The advisors will complete the registration [...]