Lebanese Association For History
Employer
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
1-10 Employees
COMPANY REVENUE
N/A USD
ABOUT
LAH is a non-governmental organization founded in 2013 by a group of educationalists, history teachers, and activists who work together to contribute to the development of disciplinary approaches to History education in Lebanon. LAH’s mission is to promote the learning and teaching of history as a discipline in Lebanon, raise public awareness about the importance of history and ensure that history teaching becomes more recognized by society and more engaging to learners with a focus on historical concepts. LAH aims at encouraging continuous learning for different age groups as a way to build learners’ critical thinking shape their personalities and develop a sense of individual and collective responsibility. Accordingly, LAH is working on researching and developing new knowledge and pedagogies to approach contested history, and how it can be taught in the classroom, particularly the history of the civil war in Lebanon.