Teaching
Teaching and supervision
Doctoral teaching, executive education, and the formation of scholar-practitioners.
I teach at the doctoral and executive-master level at the Institut des Sciences de l’Éducation, UM6P. I also coordinate the PhD program at ISE and supervise doctoral research.
My teaching is built on three commitments. First, that the formation of education researchers in Africa and the Maghreb requires sustained, critical, and generative engagement with Anglo-American, French, and Moroccan traditions — not as competing canons to choose among, but as resources to put in conversation. Second, that doctoral training is not the transmission of methods but the cultivation of a thinking style — the patience to hold a problem in its full institutional and conceptual texture, and the courage to commit to a position. Third, that pedagogy itself is a research object, not a transparent vehicle for content. How I teach is part of what I am teaching about.
Courses
EDU705 — Pedagogy of Higher Education
A doctoral seminar organized around five epistemic tensions in higher-education pedagogy: the structure of knowledge, the nature of learning, the purpose of education, the politics of power, identity, and language, and the question of epistemic sovereignty in the age of AI. The seminar critically engages French, Anglo-American, Moroccan, and African traditions — treating Morocco and Africa as sources of theory, not only as sites of policy implementation. Students develop an original, situated conceptual framework for a “pedagogy of the future” as the final assessment.
EDU720 — Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
The required doctoral course on teaching and learning in higher education at UM6P, with over 100 students per cohort. Co-coordinated with Pr. Ali Bouabid. The course was restructured this year from a theory-heavy to a practice-anchored design, with three assessment components: participation, group presentations, and individual microteaching. Faculty across the ISE come together to teach the eleven-week sequence.
EMEL Course 1.3 — Ethics and Integrity in Educational Leadership
A 30-hour course within Certificate 1 of the Executive Master in Educational Leadership at UM6P-ISE — an executive program for current and aspiring K–12, professional, and higher-education leaders in Morocco and across Africa. The course supports the program’s learning outcomes on ethical governance, equity, and integrity, and sits in sequence with companion courses on educational governance and policy analysis.
PhD coordination at ISE
I coordinate the doctoral program at the Institut des Sciences de l’Éducation. The role spans curriculum design, candidacy assessment, the weekly bulletin board (with a standing section celebrating ISE faculty and doctoral research accepted at international conferences), and the broader institutional architecture of doctoral training — including the Student Committee and the connection to external doctoral financing (KIX/GPE, Spencer Foundation RPP, AFEP, and other pathways under development).
Supervision philosophy
When I supervise, I assess in this order: structural (does the project hold together as an intellectual whole?), methodological (are the methods adequate to the question, and is the question being honestly answered?), and prose-level (is the writing doing its work?). I begin from the student’s own stated research question and work outward from there.
I take research seriously as a form of intellectual life, not as a checklist of products. My supervision is intentionally high-touch with students whose questions sit at the intersection of multilingual education, early childhood, teacher quality, instructional design, and the integration of contemplative or embodied perspectives into education research. I am less the right supervisor for projects oriented primarily toward statistical methodology, large-scale impact evaluation, or comparative-policy work that does not touch pedagogical or developmental theory.
Prospective doctoral candidates
I am accepting a small number of doctoral candidates at ISE in the Pedagogy and Didactics track, beginning with the 2026–2027 cohort. Candidates with research interests aligned to my program (multilingual education, early childhood, teacher quality, instructional quality, or the language–AI–learning intersection) are welcome to write to me at mariam.dahbi@um6p.ma with a one-page concept note and a CV.
External doctoral financing is a serious consideration; I work closely with prospective candidates to identify the right funding pathway (institutional UM6P, AFEP, KIX/GPE, Spencer, Fulbright, DAAD, or other bilateral pathways) before formal admission.