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The politics of education reform in the Middle East : self and other in textbooks and curricula / edited by Samira Alayan, Achim Rohde, & Sarhan Dhouib.
Van Pelt Library LB3048.A65 P65 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Textbooks--Arab countries.
- Textbooks.
- Textbook bias--Arab countries.
- Textbook bias.
- Curriculum change--Arab countries.
- Curriculum change.
- Educational change--Government policy--Arab countries.
- Educational change.
- Educational change--Government policy.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 275 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
- Summary:
- The 12 chapters presented here by Alayan (David Yellin College of Education, Jerusalem), Rohde (Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Technical U. Berlin, Germany), and Dhouib (Institute of Philosophy, Kassel U., Germany) examine key trends in school education and textbook development in selected countries of the Middle East (Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Syria, and Israel/Palestine). Central themes prevalent in the volume include the dynamics of identity politics in education through representations of "Self" and "Other" in curricula and teaching materials in the humanities and social studies, and the degree of independent critical thinking fostered in social studies curricula. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman / Nemer Mansur Frayha
- Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula / Salha Abdullah Issan
- Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics / Mohammad Khalil Abbas
- Major trends of educational reform in Egypt / Iman Farag
- On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy / Massoud Daher
- History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory / Atef Botros
- Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks / Jonathan Kriener
- The philosophical foundations of education and the range of its implications for the content of civic education textbooks in Jordan / Mustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-Khalailah
- Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education / Naseema al-Khalidi
- Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks / Qasem al-Newashi
- History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education / Samira Alayan
- Bridging conflicts through history education?: a case study from Israel/Palestine / Achim Rohde.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780857454607
- 0857454609
- 9780857454614
- 0857454617
- OCLC:
- 767974138
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