Deliberate Course
Amal Hawamdeh teaches a physics lesson at the Al-Khansa’a Comprehensive Secondary School for Girls in Jerash, about 30 miles north of Jordan’s capital city, that veers away from the “chalk and talk” teaching methods that are the staples of an education in the Middle East.
On a day in April, Hawamdeh divides her class of 28 11th graders into small groups to learn about the properties of concave and convex lenses.
Several girls, all wearing the green tunics that are part of their school uniforms and the white or cream-colored headscarves that signify their Islamic faith, head out to the school’s concrete schoolyard to experiment with how lenses capture sun rays. Another group goes to the school’s computer lab to see what the students can find about lenses on the Internet. A third experiments...
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