FRONT COVER -- EDUCATION FOR A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IN ARABIAN GULF COUNTRIES -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- CHALLENGES TO CREATING AN ARABIAN GULF KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- THE (NON-)NATIONAL CONTEXT -- THE CONFLICTING ASSUMPTIONS OF FUNCTIONAL AND CULTURAL APPROACHES TO CHANGE -- THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY DILEMMA AND PROPOSED SOLUTIONS -- INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH STEM -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- PART I: TRANSLATING THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY TO THE GULF -- PHILOSOPHY, LANGUAGE POLICY AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- OBJECTIVES -- EDUCATION AND ISLAM - A REVIEW OF THE ACADEMIC COMMENTARY -- DEFINITION -- ISLAMIC ARTS AND SCIENCE -- PRAXIS -- PRAGMATIC FAILURE AND COGNITIVE DISSONANCE -- LANGUAGE POLICY -- LANGUAGE POLICY SELECTION CRITERIA -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- EDUCATION, DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY IN QATAR: A CASE STUDY OF ECONOMIC AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFORMATION IN THE ARABIAN GULF -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY? -- THE CULTURAL, SOCIAL, AND ECONOMIC MAKEUP OF THE STATE OF QATAR -- THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM: ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE ON HYDROCARBONS -- QATAR'S EVOLVING AND MATURING EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM -- HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING: IS THE QATARI EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM AND LABOR FORCE READY FOR THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY? -- CURRENT APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING QATAR'S KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY ON SAND - WHEN THE MODERNIST PROJECT CONFRONTS THE TRADITIONAL CULTURAL VALUES IN THE GULF -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- ESSENTIALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST -- GLOBALISATION IN THE ARAB WORLD -- CONTRASTING EPISTEMOLOGIES -- EDUCATION AND THE SHOCK OF THE NEW -- THE EDUCATION DEFICIT AND EMERGING CONCERNS OF THE GLOBAL NORTH -- LOCAL PROBLEMS AND CONCERNS OVER SCHOOLING -- AN OPEN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- FROM CENTRALIZED EDUCATION TO INNOVATION: CULTURAL SHIFTS IN KUWAIT'S EDUCATION SYSTEM -- BACKGROUND -- DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATION IN KUWAIT -- FAILURE TO INTERNALIZE -- 2007-2013-SETTING THE STAGE -- NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT (NCED) -- LESSONS LEARNED: CAN FAILED POLICY AND PROGRAM ADOPTION INFORM FUTURE DECISIONS? -- REFERENCES -- PART II: COMPARING KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES IN THE GULF REGION -- THE "SINGAPORE OF THE MIDDLE EAST": THE ROLE AND ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE SINGAPORE MODEL AND TIMSS ON EDUCATION POLICY AND BORROWING IN THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CONTEXT OF BAHRAIN AND THE ARABIAN GULF -- BAHRAIN, INTERNATIONAL ASSESSMENTS, EDUCATIONAL BORROWING: A MODEL FOR THE GULF? -- BAHRAIN AND THE TIMSS ASSESSMENTS -- BAHRAIN AND SINGAPORE: A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE -- THE EDUCATIONAL FUTURE FOR BAHRAIN AND THE WIDER GCC -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS' PERCEPTIONS TOWARD ONLINE ASSESSMENT: THE CASE OF THE FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UMM AL-QURA UNIVERSITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- METHODOLOGY AND DATA SOURCES -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- NEW HORIZONS OF INTEGRATING ICTS IN EGYPTIAN INITIAL TEACHER EDUCATION -- INTRODUCTION -- RESEARCH OBJECTIVE -- METHOD AND DATA COLLECTION -- THE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: THE ANTICIPATED HORIZON, STUDENT TEACHERS' ICTS COMPETENCES AND ATTITUDES IN SOME DEVELOPING COUNTRIES -- RESULTS: OUR OWN REALITY: EGYPTIAN STUDENT TEACHERS' ICTS COMPETENCES AND ATTITUDES -- THE CONCLUSION: WHAT WE BELIEVE, WHAT WE KNOW -- REFERENCES -- THE IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON STUDENTS' ACHIEVEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA: AN ESSAY USING THE TIMSS 2007 DATABASE -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- DATA AND REGRESSION TECHNIQUE -- DISCUSSION OF RESULTS -- FUTURE ISSUE: COMPETENCIES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY.

CONCLUSION -- LIST OF COUNTRIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- PART III: SHIFTING FROM KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES TO KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES IN THE GULF -- MAKING THE TRANSITION TO A 'KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY' AND 'KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY': EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES FOR SAUDI ARABIA -- PURPOSE -- CONTEXTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY IN SAUDI ARABIA -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES: THE CHALLENGES OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY -- UNDERSTANDING KNOWLEDGE CREATION AND DEVELOPMENT -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- UNIVERSITY ROOTS AND BRANCHES BETWEEN "GLOCALIZATION" AND "MONDIALISATION": QATAR'S (INTER)NATIONAL UNIVERSITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN QATAR -- THEORIZING GLOBAL DIFFUSION AND NATIONAL (HIGHER) EDUCATION EXPANSION IN THE GULF REGION -- COMPARING UNIVERSITIES IN QATAR -- CONCLUSIONS IN CONTEXT -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- STRATEGICALLY PLANNING THE SHIFT TO A GULF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY: THE ROLE OF BIG DATA AND MASS EDUCATION -- STRATEGIC USES OF BIG DATA TO "SHOCK" -- THE STRATEGIC ROLE OF BIG DATA IN THE TRANSITION TO A KNOWLEDGE CULTURE -- SHARED EDUCATIONAL EXPECTATIONS AND THE KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY -- STRATEGIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF BIG DATA TO KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT -- THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON IN GULF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT -- GLOBALIZATION VERSUS CONTEXTUALIZATION IN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT -- SUSTAINABLE CHANGE FOR A GULF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- SUBJECT INDEX.