ORAL HISTORY OF EDUCATION 2.0
“A historian uses detective work and guesswork to piece together resources and draw conclusions, while a recorded interview is a first-hand account told by a witness to history. It is living source material.
DOUG BOYD”
DR. TAREK SHAWKI, MINISTER OF EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, 2017-2022
TITLE: THE INFLUENCE OF TAHA HUSSEIN
Dr. Tarek Shawki, Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022), talks about the influence of Taha Hussein and Arab cultural figures on his own development and approach to education and learning.
Keywords: Taha Hussein, Tawfik al-Hakim, Arab intellectual thought, free education, Egyptian Knowledge Bank, modern education
Recorded on September 13, 2022, in Cairo. Produced by Linda Herrera
TITLE: THE TECH REVOLUTION AND UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
Dr. Tarek Shawki, Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022), talks about working at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (1986-1999) during the early years of the Internet and his relationship with figures who would become global tech pioneers.
Keywords: Steve Jobs, Marc Andreessen, Stephen Wolfram, Mathematica, NeXT Computer, Cray Computer, Apple, Birth of the Internet, Distance Education, Midwest
Recorded on September 13, 2022, in Cairo. Produced by Linda Herrera
TITLE: UNESCO AND EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Tarek Shawki, Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022), talks about his time at UNESCO as the Former Director of UNESCO's Regional Bureau for Science and Technology in Arab States (Cairo Office), Regional Adviser for Communication and Information in Arab States, and Chief, Section for ICTs in Education, Science and Culture.
Keywords: ICT in education, UNESCO, Arab States, iTunesU, Apple, John Couch, Cupertino
Recorded on September 13, 2022, in Cairo. Produced by Linda Herrera
TITLE: ROAD TO EGYPTIAN KNOWLEDGE BANK (EKB)
Tarek Shawki, Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022), talks about the ideas that lead to the establishment Egyptian Knowledge Bank, the largest digital knowledge project in Egypt. He stresses the importance of making knowledge free and accessible to all people.
Keywords: Egyptian Knowledge Bank, Taha Hussein, Muhammed Ali Pasha, Educational Missions, Knowledge Equity, Digital Resources
Recorded on September 13, 2022, in Cairo. Produced by Linda Herrera
TITLE: BIRTH OF EDUCATION 2.0
Dr. Tarek Shawki, Egypt's Minister of Education and Technical Education (2017-2022), talks about the origins of Education 2.0, a major national reform to build a new education system in Egypt.
Keywords: Egyptian Knowledge Bank, Finland, Singapore, Korea, Japan, international rankings, new education system.
Recorded on September 13, 2022 in Cairo. Produced by Linda Herrera
Tarek Shawki welcoming Bill Gates to Cairo, January 24, 2004
