Roles

Professor Zainab Muhammad Al-Lafi worked in the public education sector in Tripoli in 1987. I continued to work there until 2007. Then I moved to work at the Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli in 2007 after obtaining a master’s degree in educational sciences, specializing in educational administration in 2004 from the Libyan Academy for Graduate Studies. I worked in the Department of Education and Psychology and taught school administration to fourth-year students in all departments of the college. Then I was assigned to head the Kindergarten Department in 2008, in addition to other scientific and administrative tasks, including coordinating the practical education program at the college level and teaching the following courses: kindergarten child culture and kindergarten management course, supervising graduation projects for department students, as well as academic supervision of department students. I was assigned as a member of the advisory committee for the Faculty of Education Scientific Journal in 2009, and I was also assigned as a member of the committee for developing and unifying the curricula of the Faculty of Education at the level of Libya in 2010. I also worked as a member of the committee for maintaining and developing the building of the Faculty of Education, Tripoli in the year.

Careers

• Appointed as a teacher in the public education sector in 1987.

• Delegated to work as Head of the Appointments Department in the Public Education Sector/Tripoli from 1987 to 1993.

• I assumed the duties of the Licensing Department at the National Committee for Education and Vocational Training at the level of Libya from 1993 to 1999.

• Head of the Personnel Affairs Department in the Public Education Sector from 2000 to 2007.

• Assistant Head of the Committee for Mechanization of Administrative Devices in the Public Education Sector in 1991.

• Member of the Committee for Sorting, Listing and Studying the Files of Teachers with Expatriate and Local Contracts in the Public Education Sector in 1993.

• Member of the Committee for Laying the Necessary Foundations to Support Educational and Training Partnerships in 1993.

• Member of the Committee for Reviewing and Regulating the Status of Educational and Training Partnerships in the Eastern Region in 1995.

• Member of the Committee for Setting the Job Credentials for the Public Education Sector in 2001.

Research Interests

Participation in the first scientific conference organized by the Faculty of Education, Tripoli (The Teacher and Contemporary Challenges) in 2008.

Member of the Advisory Committee for the Scientific Journal of the Faculty of Education from 2009 to 2013.

Member of the Preparatory Committee for the Second Scientific Conference of the Faculty of Education (Faculties of Education, Reality and Prospects) in 2009.

Participation in the advisory workshop organized by the Arab Organization on Early Childhood / Jordan in 2010.

Participation in the first philosophical conference at the Faculty of Arts in Zawiya entitled (Professional Ethics, Its Theoretical Philosophy and Practical Applications) in 2014.

Published scientific research (Problems of Classroom Management and Its Impact on the Learning Process) Al-Qurtas Magazine issued by the Andalusia Foundation for Culture, first issue for the year 2018.

External Activities

Member of the Advisory Committee of the Journal of the Faculty of Science Education from 2009 to 2013.

Member of the Project Committee for Preparing the Government Vision for the Deputy Prime Minister in 2013.

Participation in (a symposium on the draft constitution) held in Tripoli in November 2015.

Participation in the Libyan Women’s Dialogue between Societal Reality and the Hopes of the United Nations held in Tripoli in January 2016.