Teachers as state-builders : education and the making of the modern Middle East / Hilary Falb Kalisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kalisman, Hilary Falb, author.

Series:

Princeton scholarship online.

Princeton scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Middle East.

Teachers.

Education--Political aspects--Middle East.

Education.

Political leadership--Middle East--History--20th century.

Political leadership.

Arab nationalism--History--20th century.

Arab nationalism.

Middle East--Politics and government--20th century.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.) : 26 b/w illus.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Today, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society. But in the lands controlled by the Ottomans, and then by the British in the early and mid-twentieth century, teachers were key players in government and leading formulators of ideologies. Drawing on archival research and oral histories, this book brings to light educators' outsized role in shaping the politics of the modern Middle East. Hilary Falb Kalisman tells the story of the few young Arab men - and fewer young Arab women - who were lucky enough to teach public school in the territories that became Iraq, Jordan, and Palestine/Israel. Crossing Ottoman provincial and, later, Mandate and national borders for work and study, these educators were advantageously positioned to assume mid- and even high-level administrative positions in multiple government bureaucracies.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1 From Kuttab to College: Imperial Legacies

2 Policies and Practices: The Idiosyncrasies of Teaching in the Interwar Era

3 “Borders We Did Not Recognize”: Travel, Transnationalism, and Habitus in the Interwar Era

4 Educators and Governance: Rebellions from Nation to State

5 The Professional Teacher and the Hazards of Mass Education

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 8, 2023).

ISBN:

9780691204321

0691204322

OCLC:

1321800005