April 3rd, 2017: Dr. Rawa Nahhas, Assistant Professor in the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Canadian University Dubai (CUD), has been contributing to the regional dialogue on child development through her recent conference participation and publication on the subject of positive children’s media.
In an article published in Al Bayan, Dr. Nahhas discussed how media has become a primary source of learning in the contemporary digital world, and explored how positive children’s media could be created to aid educational and personal development.
Posing a number of questions, including who should compose the content, what the content should be, and how it should be raised, Dr. Nahhas argued that addressing these factors could help to establish the media as a legitimate support mechanism in creating children awareness.
Summarising her findings, Dr. Nahhas said, “The media message should have another function which is to shed light on the courses and processes that have led to the creation of inventions and knowledge; to change the relationship between the child and the stereotype of knowledge, into dynamic ways to comprehend the reality of life.”
Building upon her research in the field, Dr. Nahhas went on to attend the third Gulf Children’s Conference at the headquarters of the Women's Renaissance Society in Dubai. Accompanying a group of students from the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences who were also in attendance at the event, Dr. Nahhas engaged in the various debates around the conference theme ‘Psychological Empowerment of the Mother in a Promising Childhood.’
The Conference was held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and brought together representatives from the government and private sectors to engage in discussions surrounding the importance of mothers in building cohesive families in the region.
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