Teaching for Transformation
On 18 February 2021, Civil Engineering Department at Tishk International University (TIU) organized a workshop on teaching for transformation in civil engineering department. The workshop was held in TIU Erbil campus hall 302 at 15:00. The workshop aimed to ask teachers’ pay attention to use any divergence from their profession rather than to the curriculum. And make the educational institutions to construct the knowledge rather than see the profession of teaching as procedures of transferring knowledge (as a set of facts) into the mind of their students.
The workshop included the following sessions:
1st session:
- The profession of teaching and teacher professionalism,
- Knowledge as defined by the curriculum.
2nd session:
- The power structure in educational institutions
- Transformation in education and teaching
- Discussions
The workshop was presented by Dr. Abdurrahman Ahmad Wahab. He received his PhD. Degree in Education from the University of Toronto, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of social sciences and humanities, educational Policy, sociology of education, program evaluation, and teacher education.
He is currently a faculty member of the ELT department at TIU. And it was attended by 20 professors, lecturers and research assistants of engineering faculty at TIU and Erbil polytechnic university. The workshop enabled the audience to know the profession of teaching and teacher professionalism, Knowledge as defined by the curriculum, power structure in educational institutions and the transformation in education and teaching.
About Civil Engineering department at TIU:
Civil Engineering Department at Tishk International University is the first department in the whole Iraq and KRI that its program has been awarded international accreditation by ZeVa agency and the first department has established ACI TIU Student Chapter (American Concrete Institute Tishk International Student Chapter) and theses enable our graduates to be employed in the construction industry our graduates of the most fundamental and popular faculties of dentistry in the city of Erbil, Iraq. For more information, please visit this webpage:
