This document discusses using cinema as an educational tool in Egypt. It provides examples of Egyptian films that have been used in classrooms, such as the popular TV series "Zat" which tells Egypt's modern history. It also discusses the Egyptian curriculum, including teaching approaches that focus on student engagement like student-centered instruction. Religion is taught in schools through discussing values, relationships, and interacting with current issues and problems from a religious perspective. The document advocates that education, not just democracy, is needed to improve societies and concludes with a call to prioritize education.

1. Cinema as a tool for
Education-Egyptian Example
Aysha Selim

2. Any teacher can take a child to the classroom,
but not every teacher can make him learn.
Helen Keller on
Anne Mansfield
Sullivan
“She realized that a child's mind is
like a shallow brook which ripples
and dances merrily over the stony
course of its education and reflects
here a flower, there a bush, yonder a
fleecy cloud; and she attempted to
guide my mind on its way, knowing
that like a brook it should be fed by
mountain streams and hidden
springs, until it broadened out into a
deep river, capable of reflecting in its
placid surface, billowy hills, the
luminous shadows of trees and the
blue heavens, as well as the sweet
face of a little flower.
Any teacher can take a child to the
classroom, but not every teacher can
make him learn.”

3. The Teacher
In Egyptian Cinema
Hollywood Egypt

4. Exception!
To Sir With Love School of the “Naughties"

5. Integrated Teaching Approach

6. Student-Centered Instruction (SCI)
Imagination - Curiosity – Critical Thinking
“SCI provides "increased motivation to learn, greater retention of knowledge,
deeper understanding, and more positive attitudes toward the subject being
taught.”
Felder, R.M, Brent, R., (1996). Navigating the bumpy
road to student-centered instruction. College Teaching,
44(2), 43-47. Retrieved December 7, 2007, from EBSCO
database.

7. Religion in The Egyptian Curriculum
Secondary and High School
Islamic Religion:
 Values and Human Relationships related to family and
society
 Getting to know brothers and sisters in faith, homeland and
humanity and the duties therein leading to co-living in
peace
 Study of trends that weaken the Faith
Christian Religion:
 Values and Human Relationships - Tolerance- Love
 Current issues from a religious perspective
 Respect of other religions
 Interaction with society’s current problems to form a
thinking personality capable of dealing with challenges and
crisis from a scientific approach in line with religious
standards

8. TV Series: Zat (Self)
One of the most popular Ramadan series in 2013, a TV adaptation of the novel by Sonallah
Ibrahim, tells the bigger story of Egypt. It presents Egypt’s modern history through the
story of a middle class Egyptian girl called Zat, born on the day the of 1952 Revolution.

9. The Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins With One Step
Lao Tzu (Chinese Philosopher- 7th Century B.C.)

10. Democracy is not the solution!
EDUCATION IS!!
THANK YOU!
Aysha Selim
aselim@aucegypt.edu
0128-928-8560