Jacqueline Sfeir
{{short description|Childhood education expert}}
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Jacqueline Sfeir (16 April 1956 – 5 April 2013) was a Palestinian expert in early childhood education.
Education
Sfeir was a student in the first class when Bethlehem University started taking students in 1973.{{Cite news |last=Podsiadlo |first=John J |date=October 3, 1998 |title=Bethlehem University: A star shining in the East |work=America; New York |pages=6–12 |via=Proquest |volume=179 |issue=9}} Her doctoral work centered on pre-schooling and education.{{Cite book |last=White |first=Patrick |url=http://archive.org/details/childrenofbethle0000whit |title=Children of Bethlehem : innocents in the storm |date=1991 |publisher=Leominster : Gracewing |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-85244-198-5 |pages=146–147}}
Career
In 1985 Sfeir was a founder of the Early Childhood Resource Centre in Jerusalem; the goal of the group was to improve education for pre-school children.{{Cite book |last=Nicolai |first=Susan |url=http://archive.org/details/fragmentedfounda0000nico |title=Fragmented foundations : education and chronic crisis in the Occupied Palestinian Territory |date=2007 |publisher=Paris : UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning; London : Save the Children UK |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-92-803-1301-7 |pages=78–79}} She worked with teachers and parents to change the conditions under which children were educated.{{Cite book |last1=Najjar |first1=Orayb Aref |url=http://archive.org/details/portraitsofpales00najj |title=Portraits of Palestinian women |last2=Warnock |first2=Kitty |date=1992 |publisher=Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-87480-385-3 |pages=202–203}}{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/internationaledu0000unse_e1u9 |title=International education for the millennium : toward access, equity, and quality |date=2006 |publisher=Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-916690-46-5 |editor-last=Piper |editor-first=Benjamin |pages=230–231 |editor-last2=Dryden-Peterson |editor-first2=Sarah |editor-last3=Kim |editor-first3=Young-Suk}}
In 1989 Sfeir spoke of how drawings by Palestinian children reflected their upbringing during times of regional conflict.{{Cite news |last=Payne |first=Elizabeth |date=28 April 1989 |title=Palestinian children's art exhibit reveals depth of war suffering |work=The Ottawa Citizen; Ottawa, Ont. |pages=A4 |via=Proquest}}{{Cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Janice |date=8 April 1989 |title=Life a struggle for children of the intifada |work=The Gazette; Montreal, Que. |pages=B6 |via=Proquest}} In 2005, her presentation in British Columbia was questioned given her opposition to cooperation with Israel.{{Cite news |last=Yaffe |first=Barbara |date=2005-05-28 |title=Teachers' union plays host to anti-Israeli activist |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-vancouver-sun-teachers-union-plays/146774615/ |access-date=2024-05-07 |work=The Vancouver Sun |pages=39}}
In 2001, she was appointed to a five-year term as a member of the Pontifical Council for the Laity.{{Cite web |title=Who We Are |publisher=Palestinian American Research Center |url=http://parc-us-pal.org/who.htm |access-date=2013-04-11 |archive-date=2021-09-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210911143254/http://parc-us-pal.org/who.htm |url-status=dead }}{{Cite journal |last1=Mahshi |first1=Khalil |last2=Bush |first2=Kim |date=1989-12-01 |title=The Palestinian Uprising and Education for the Future |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.59.4.156766w31t075600 |journal=Harvard Educational Review |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=470–484 |doi=10.17763/haer.59.4.156766w31t075600 |issn=0017-8055 |quote=At Bethlehem University, Jacqueline Sfeir and the teacher trainees are developing ... Sfeir noted how village women watched their children learning while playing and said: "This ...}} In 2005, she founded MaDad, an independent company that uses and develops the Holistic Integrated Approach, also referred to as holistic education, in its work with both local and regional actors who deal and interact daily with children.
In 2007 Sfeir was elected to receive a fellowship from the non-profit organization Ashoka.{{Cite web |title=Jacqueline Sfeir {{!}} Ashoka |url=https://www.ashoka.org/en/fellow/jacqueline-sfeir |access-date=2024-05-07 |website=www.ashoka.org |language=en-us}}
She died of cancer on 5 April 2013, at the age of 56.http://www.alquds.com/obituary/20130406#.UWK__qKQWSo{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Publications
- {{Cite book |last=Sfeir |first=Jacqueline |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WsGgtgAACAAJ |title=Development and Validation of the School Entrance Exam for the West-Bank of Jordan |year=1984 |publisher=University of Northern Colorado, Department of Early Childhood Education}}
- {{Cite news|url= http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1490&ed=108&edid=108 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318081820/http://www.thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1490&ed=108&edid=108 |title= Education in Bethlehem|first1=Jacqueline |last1= Sfeir |issue= 91 |date= November 2005|newspaper=This Week in Palestine| archive-date=2012-03-18 }}
- {{Cite book |last1=Sfeir |first1=Jacqueline |last2=Gilkes |first2=Julia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3YgftwAACAAJ |title=Challenges and Initiatives in Early Childhood Education |year=2006 |publisher=Arab Resource Collective}}
- {{Cite book |last=Sfeir |first=Jacqueline |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TvuIPgAACAAJ |script-title=ar:النوع الاجتماعي والنظام التربوي الفلسطيني في المرحلة الأساسية: تقرير الدراسة التجريبية لفحص جدوى آلية بحث كمية نوعية للتحليل |language=Arabic |trans-title=Gender and the Palestinian educational system in the basic stage: Report of a pilot study to examine the feasibility of the amount of quality search mechanism for analysis |year=2006}}
- {{cite news |url=http://thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1921&ed=132&edid=132 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211161101/http://thisweekinpalestine.com/details.php?id=1921&ed=132&edid=132 |archive-date=2007-02-11 |title=The impact of the Israeli occupation on the education of Palestinian children – a young Palestinian teacher's profile |first1=Jacqueline |last1=Sfeir |issue=102 |date=October 2006 |newspaper=This Week in Palestine}}
- Adults and children learning, 2001:Pilot study to validate a qualitative/quantitative method to gender analysis of the Palestinian system of basic education (GAPSBE)
- النوع الاجتماعي والنظام التربوي الفلسطيني في المرحلة الأساسية : تقرير الدراسة التجريبية لفحص جدوى آلية بحث كمية نوعية للتحليل (Gender and the Palestinian educational system in the basic stage: Report of the pilot study to examine the feasibility of a qualitative and quantitative research mechanism for analysis)
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