Hana A. El-Ghali Managing Director School of Education University of Pittsburgh 5706 Wesley W. Posvar Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA Email: hae5@pitt.edu

• University of Pittsburgh, (Doctoral Candidate, Social & Comparative Analysis in Education, present)
• American University of Beirut (MA in Educational Administration and Policy Studies, 2006)
• American University of Beirut (Diploma of Educational Management and Leadership, 2004)
• American University of Beirut (Teaching Diploma, Elementary Education, 2002)
• American University of Beirut (BA in Elementary Education, 2002)

• International and Development Education
• Education in Developing Countries and Countries with Armed Conflict
• Education Policy
• Equity and Equality Issues in Education
• Comparative Higher Education

Professional Biography

Hana El-Ghali is a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh in the program of Social and Comparative Analysis in Education. El-Ghali is one of two directing managers at the Institute for International Studies in Education at the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. Her background is in Education, both teaching and administrative. She earned her Bachelor of Arts and teaching certification in Elementary Education with an emphasis in the teaching of English as a Second Language and Social Studies in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut (AUB). She also took her diploma in Educational Management and Leadership at AUB. After that, she pursued her graduate studies at AUB earning a Master’s of Arts in Educational Administration and Policy Studies. El-Ghali also taught English as a Second Language at two private elementary schools in Lebanon, the American Community School and Bayader School.

Research Interests & Current Projects

El-Ghali's research interests are in International and Developing Education, particularly in developing countries. She is interested in looking at development issues in developing countries, predominantly those that are or were recently involved in conflicts, such as in the cases of Iraq, Southern Sudan, and Lebanon. During her course of study, she looked at teachers’ beliefs about decision making in two schools in Lebanon, one with a typical bureaucratic system and another with a progressive one. She also worked on a research project ed by two professors at the American University of Beirut. The project, Mathematics Reform for All in Lebanon (MARAL), looked at high-level thinking, reasoning and communication in elementary mathematics and culturally specific ways of engaging students in high level thinking, reasoning and communication. It also looked at teacher development opportunities based on the data collected and analyzed. She also created the project’s database and helped develop teacher training series. Currently, El-Ghali is working on a research paper looking at higher education in Lebanon, which will be presented in the 2008 Comparative and International Education Society 51st annual conference. She is also working under an apprenticeship of  Professor W. James Jacob on a research paper looking at HIV/AIDS in Uganda.

Selected Publications

El-Ghali, Hana. (2008). Equity in Socio-economic Status of Students and Higher Education Enrollment in Lebanon. Paper presented at the annual conference for the Comparative and International Education Society, March 17–21, in New York.

Addam, Hana. (2006). Teachers' Beliefs About Decision Making in Two Schools in Lebanon. Unpublished Master's Thesis. Beirut: Department of Education, American University of Beirut.