Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar
Born15 December 1963
NationalityKuwaiti
Occupation(s)Academic, writer

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar (Arabic: علي عاشور الجعفر) is a writer and academic of Kuwaiti citizenship, who teaches at the College of Education at Kuwait University.

His life

Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar was born on 15 December 1963 in Kuwait. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Arabic Language Teaching Methods at the College of Education at Kuwait University in 1987, and a Master's in Education at the Primary Level at Indiana University Bloomington in the United States of America in 1995, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university in 1998.[1]

Career

  • Instructor at Kuwait University from 1998 to May 2006.
  • Director of the Centre for Practical Education at the College of Education "Kuwait University" from 2004 to 2006.
  • Director of the Master's Program in the Curriculum Department from 2010 to 2011.
  • Professor, Department of Curricula and Teaching Methods, College of Education, Kuwait University, from 2006 until now.[1][2]

He is the editor-in-chief of Journal of Children, and owner of the “storypedia” website, which publishes the summaries of children's stories in the Arab world.

Books

Ashour published three collections of short stories for children by Dar Al Hadaek: "My Sister Sees by Smell", "The Square Story", and "We Make a House of Dust". His latest publication, in 2020, entitled: "The Beautiful Surprised Object: A Reading in Children's Poetic Fiction". And he has three translations of books issued by The Children of Reggio.[3][4]

Book Number of pages Year Publisher Language International number Soure
My sister sees by smell (Arabic: 'ukhti turaa bialraayiha) 24 January 1, 2013 Dar Al Hadaek Arabic 139789953464923 [5]
Children's Theater in Kuwait: Between semantic diversity, heritage and directing

(Arabic: masrah altifl fi alkuayt "bayn altanawue aldalalii walturath wal'ukhraji")

647 January 1, 2007 Dar Al-Wafaa for printing and publishing Arabic [6]
We make a house of dust (Arabic: nasnae bytaan min alghubar) 52 December 23, 2019 Dar Al Hadaek Arabic 9786144391747 [7]

Awards

Ali Ashour Al-Jafar won the award for the best doctoral thesis at the level of the Curriculum Department at the College of Education, Indiana University - Bloomington, United States in 1998. He also won the State Prize in 2016 in the field of Education for the book “Children’s Literature and Politics: Diversity and Difference.”[8][1]

Reverences

  1. ^ a b c "tanwair | مجلّة فكريّة تربويّة فصليّة محكمة تصدر عن مركز نقد وتنوير للدراسات الإنسانية. دراسات تربوية اجتماعية نفسية وثقافية، قضايا المجتمع الفكرية والتربوية مقاربات نقدية في التربية والمجتمع". 2021-01-25. Archived from the original on 2021-01-25. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  2. ^ "قصص الاطفال". 2021-06-03. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  3. ^ "تحميل كتب علي عاشور الجعفر pdf - مكتبة نور". 2021-06-09. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2021-11-29.
  4. ^ Ǧaʿfar, ʿalī ʿāšūr al-; عاشور, جعفر، علي (2017). قصة مربع (in Arabic). ISBN 978-614-439-111-2. OCLC 1138706636.
  5. ^ الجعفر, علي عاشور (2014). أختي ترى بالرائحة (in Arabic). ISBN 978-9953-464-92-3. OCLC 1158889037.
  6. ^ مسرح الطفل في الكويت (in Arabic). 2007. OCLC 1103841847.
  7. ^ نصنع بيتا من الغبار (in Arabic). 2019. OCLC 1229993886.
  8. ^ "أ.د.علي عاشور الجعفر - النقش". 2021-06-09. Archived from the original on 2021-06-09. Retrieved 2021-11-29.