From classrooms to conflict in Rwanda / Elisabeth King, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Elisabeth, 1978- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Social aspects--Rwanda.

Education.

Ethnic conflict--Rwanda.

Ethnic conflict.

Discrimination in education--Rwanda.

Discrimination in education.

Rwanda--Ethnic relations.

Rwanda.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from the colonial period to the genocide, schooling was a key instrument of the state in contributing to the construction, awareness, collectivization and inequality of ethnic groups in Rwanda - all factors that underlay conflict. The book further argues that today's post-genocide schools are dangerously replicating past trends. This book is the first to offer an in-depth study of education in Rwanda and to analyze its role in the genesis of conflict. The book demonstrates that to build peace, we cannot simply prescribe more education, but must understand who has access to schools, how schools are set up, and what and how they teach.

Contents:

Moving education from the margins to the mainstream

Colonial schooling

Schooling under the Rwandan Republics

Schooling after genocide

Education for peacebuilding : Rwanda in comparative perspective.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-42500-X

1-107-42289-2

1-107-55755-0

1-107-41976-X

1-107-41720-1

1-139-60021-4

1-107-42101-2

1-107-41845-3

OCLC:

891660608