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MEAWARDS Study Group on Youth, Education, and Citizenship: What Do Education Curricula Say? A workshop on youth education and citizenship was held 17–19 July 2004 in Sousse, Tunisia. The meeting was organized by MEAwards, the Center for Economic and Social Research (CERES), and the Tunisian Association for the Study of Youth Culture. Twenty papers from six countries, namely Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Syria, and Tunisia were presented during the three-day meeting. The papers presented and the discussions that followed focused on the following four major sub-themes:
The debate was enriched by detailed case studies from the different countries represented in the workshop. Striking similarities were noted and the need for school reform and curriculum revision was recognized as an urgent step toward building citizenship among youth who presently represent almost 50 percent of the population of Arab countries. Reference was made to the United Nations Development Program's recent Arab Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society. Its recommendations for a strategic vision for establishing a knowledge society in the Arab world were seen as a step in the right direction provided that detailed studies similar to those attempted during this workshop are undertaken to give the necessary context in which such recommendation can be implemented. Work is now underway on an edited volume in Arabic that includes the papers presented at the meeting. Location Population Council researchers Non-Council collaborator Donors
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