Email: Password:   Forgot your Password?                 -- About MaDad MaDad is an independent organization, dedicated to promoting learning-based community processes to introduce the developmental theories of learning in order to underline the "innateness of learning" and initiate the discussion about how the social and cultural context affect the educational process. By introducing the holistic integrated approach to education as a framework for conducting the educational debate around the predominantly traditional – rote based – system of education, MaDad gradually introduced the notions of the constructivist theories underlining the fact that all knowledge is socially and culturally constructed. MaDad will create opportunities to actively involve all the sectors of the "Palestinian society" in reflecting about the existing educational system and its impact on the development of the child. It will propose opportunities for the community to explore the validity of the developmental theories of learning in the Palestinian context and will invite that community to review its priorities in view of its findings. It will support the community in proposing the way forward, and it will accompany that community in planning, implementing, monitoring, developing its strategies or programs; it will participate in evaluating the impact of these strategies or programs using the holistic integrated framework of principles to generate the baseline indicators that will be used to measure the progress and impact of the strategies and programs in improving the quality of education offered to the community at large (for adults and children in the formal, informal and non formal educational settings). MaDad will act primarily in the Palestinian context and will be open to the Arab context; it will also act as an interface between the local, regional and international educational communities. MaDad will contribute to the development of a contemporary Arab educational philosophy and vision through conducting action oriented research involving the local community in: Describing how education is changing and discussing the factors involved in producing that change. Evaluating how this change is impacting on the community and how it affects society as a whole. Exploring how education could enable the society to keep-up, adjust and contribute to the technological and scientific developments that are changing almost every aspect of life as it was less than a decade ago. Discovering how the educational philosophy and vision could accommodate what we now know about how learning occurs and what children need in order to achieve their maximum potential in the context of their immediate socio-cultural environment. How the community can be involved in articulating "its" educational philosophy and vision taking into consideration: its political, religious and cultural diversity; its historic and cultural heritage; and the emerging knowledge.