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This book examines the educational challenges in the broader Middle East, using insights from Iraq to explore historical, political, social, religious, and linguistic influences on education. It introduces new theoretical perspectives to the educational policies of the past century and proposes alternative approaches to policymaking.
List of contents
1. Setting the Stage: The Historical and Conceptual Contexts
2. The Traditional Paradigm (TP)
3. Neither East nor West Paradigms
4. Insights from Interviewing Iraqi Policymakers
5. The Established Reality Theory
6. Challenging by Hammer
7. Prologue of Future Policies
About the author
Hadi T. Pir received his master's and PhD from the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a bachelor's degree in ESL from the University of Mosul, Iraq. He worked seven years for the US Army in Iraq. He taught for five years at Lincoln Public Schools and four years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His dissertation focused on Iraqi education since 1920 and served as the foundation for this book.
Hadi is a co-founder of Yazda, an international organization advocating for Yazidis and other Middle Eastern minorities. He also co-founded the campaign of Nadia Murad, the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. His writing has appeared in
The Wall Street Journal,
The Washington Times, and
Newsweek, and he has been featured in publications such as
The New Yorker. He was selected as one of 400 individuals by Columbia University and the Obama Foundation to contribute to the Obama Presidency Oral History Project. He also served as a consultant for Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs on the Undergraduate Capstone on Genocide (2020 and 2022).
Beyond Iraqi and Middle Eastern education, Hadi's research focuses on multicultural and multilingual education, as well as comparative and international education.
