Doha: The Doha-based Arab Educational Center for the Gulf States organised a virtual seminar titled: “Learning from Crises in the Education Sector: From Educational Continuity to Reshaping Learning.” Educational leaders and specialists across the Gulf states and Arab countries participated in the seminar.
The seminar aimed to empower educational leaders to turn crises into opportunities for institutional learning, and to reshape educational systems by activating institutional memory and developing innovative policies based on data collection and analysis. This contributes to building a resilient education sector capable of sustaining quality and transforming field experiences into documented and actionable practices.
Undersecretary of the Omani Ministry of Education for Education Dr. Badr bin Hamoud Al-Kharousi stressed during the opening session the need for Gulf education systems to move from single learning, based on operational response, to double-loop learning, which reconstructs strategic frameworks in line with national development visions. He also highlighted the importance of transforming lessons learned into organisational memory that ensures policy continuity and the accumulation of expertise.
Director of the Arab Educational Training Center for the Gulf States Dr. Fatima Ghanem Al Maadheed affirmed the center’s commitment to empowering educational leaders with tools for learning monitoring and institutional documentation, thereby enhancing the efficiency of educational institutions in addressing various challenges.
Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies Dr. Moosa Al-Afri delivered a keynote presentation highlighting the latest global research on crisis leadership.
