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Analyse des méthodes d'enseignement des sciences économiques dans le système éducatif Libanais

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Teaching economics become part of the Lebanese education system in 2000. The short history of this field is promising because of the nature of the discipline and its position in the education system in Lebanon. Teaching economics in Lebanese schools was not created on its own, but as a part of a project that aims to reform all the programs and the structures of high schools in Lebanon that started long time ago. This reform was based on relevant innovations adopted in France. Since its creation, the new section (ES) was successful in tripling its enrollment over nine years while its success rate continues to fall and decrease to become the lowest within all the other sections and taught disciplines. This research work lead to formulate propositions that will improve the teaching and scientific conjuncture of this discipline in order to encourage the people in charge to launch a national reform workshop with the participation of the social community. These workshops played a key role in the French education system and are considered essential to all reforms and modifications of the program and its teaching methodologies. All reforms related to this discipline have to be based on two essential hypotheses: - Economics is a scholastic discipline, just like any other, that respects a good number of general characteristics related to the teaching methodologies that should be adopted. - Economics has a lot of characteristics that distinguish it from other scholastic disciplines: these characteristics mostly tackle its epistemological aspects. Finally we can summarize our remarks as follows: The 1999 Lebanese founder project concerning the teaching of "Economics" is essentially inspired by the 1967 French founder project concerning the teaching of "Economics and Social Sciences". ES should be studied further taking into consideration the reforms and the modifications implemented on the 1967 French project and adjusting it to the Lebanese context where "Economics" is being taught and not "Economics and Social Sciences" as it is the case in France.