The politics of education reform in the Middle East : self and other in textbooks and curricula / edited by Samira Alayan & Achim Rohde ; with Sarhan Dhouib.
2012
LB3048.A65 P65 2012eb
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Title
The politics of education reform in the Middle East : self and other in textbooks and curricula / edited by Samira Alayan & Achim Rohde ; with Sarhan Dhouib.
ISBN
0857454617 (electronic bk.)
9780857454614 (electronic bk.)
0857454609
9780857454607
9780857454614 (electronic bk.)
0857454609
9780857454607
Imprint
New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers
9786613717382
Call Number
LB3048.A65 P65 2012eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)806520915
Summary
Education systems and textbooks in selected countries of the Middle East are increasingly the subject of debate. This volume presents and analyzes the major trends as well as the scope and the limits of education reform initiatives undertaken in recent years. In curricula and teaching materials, representations of the "Self" and the "Other" offer insights into the contemporary dynamics of identity politics. By building on a network of scholars working in various countries in the Middle East itself, this book aims to contribute to the evolution of a field of comparative education studies in thi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
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.
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