american studies institute ain sukhna, egyptjanuary 2005 slideshow seven: a visit to an egyptian...
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I visited classes in the Prep (Middle School age) and Secondary (High School age) sections. Their English was excellent. Children in all Egyptian schools start English at age 6.TRANSCRIPT
American Studies InstituteAin Sukhna, Egypt January 2005
Slideshow Seven:A Visit to an Egyptian School
A Joint Project of Binational Fulbright Commission-Egypt
and
James Madison UniversityOffice of International Programs
Lee Sternberger, Principal Investigator
Project Directors Noha El Gindi (Fulbright)
Lorie Merrow (JMU)
JMU FacultyPhilip Bigler, Steve Reich
Elizabeth Chew (Monticello) Mark Facknitz, Howard Lubert
Fulbright AssistantsMariam
Laila HusseinJMU Student Assistant
Bareza Rasoul
The Ma’ady Experimental SchoolMa’ady, Cairo
One of our participants, Shawky Allam, invited us to the school where he teaches, the Ma’ady Experimental School, which
houses 1300 students from first to last year, primary through secondary school. Experimental schools are public schools
at which some new ideas are tried out. They often have better funding and better teachers than regular public
schools. Ma’ady is an upper middle class area of Cairo.
I visited classes in the Prep (Middle School age) and Secondary (High School age) sections. Their English was excellent.
Children in all Egyptian schools start English at age 6.
Each class in this Ma’ady school has about 50 students
The students were welcoming and involved, and they asked excellent questions.
Break Time
Our participant, Shawky, on the right
A visit to the
Agricultural Museum
Something like a museum of Natural History with special exhibits on agriculture
Acting as tour guides, Mohamed Hanafi,
(an ASI participant,) and his wife Maaly
Many interesting specimens of Egyptian wildlife, especially birds
A symbol of Egypt, the goddess of
agriculture