Palestine in Israeli school books : ideology and propaganda in education / Nurit Peled-Elhanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peled-Elhanan, Nurit, author.

Series:

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 82.

Library of modern Middle East studies ; 82

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Textbooks--Israel.

Textbooks.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Study and teaching--Israel.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Literature and the conflict.

Palestinian Arabs.

Education--Aims and objectives--Israel.

Education.

Public opinion--Israel.

Public opinion.

Nationalism and education--Israel.

Nationalism and education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Each year, Israel's young men and women are drafted into compulsory military service and are required to engage directly in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This conflict is by its nature intensely complex and is played out under the full glare of international security. So, how does Israel's education system prepare its young people for this? How is Palestine, and the Palestinians against whom these young Israelis will potentially be required to use force, portrayed in the school system?Nurit Peled-Elhanan argues that the textbooks used in the school system are laced with a pro-Israel ideology, and that they play a part in priming Israeli children for military service. She analyzes the presentation of images, maps, layouts and use of language in History, Geography and Civic Studies textbooks, and reveals how the books might be seen to marginalize Palestinians, legitimize Israeli military action and reinforce Jewish-Israeli territorial identity. This book provides a fresh scholarly contribution to the Israeli-Palestinian debate, and will be relevant to the fields of Middle East Studies and Politics more widely.

Contents:

Cover; Author biography; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph page; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Introduction: A Jewish Ethnocracy in the Middle East; 1 The Representation of Palestinians in Israeli School Books; 2 The Geography of Hostility and Exclusion: A Multimodal Analysis; 3 Layout as Carrier of Meaning: Explicit and Implicit Messages Transmitted Through Layout; 4 Processes of Legitimation in Reports about Massacres; Conclusions; Notes; References

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed October 30, 2015).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857730695

085773069X

OCLC:

851315616