Ali Ashour Al-Jaffar

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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 origins, who teaches at the College of Education at Kuwait University. He is editor-in-chief of Journal of Arab Children, and owner of the “Arabic storypedia” website, which publishes the summaries of children's stories in the Arab world.

His life[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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]

Books[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  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.