Overview
- Examines a wide range of Middle Eastern countries and the impact that textbooks can have on national identities
- Emphasises the role of textbooks in legitimising an established political and social order
- Explores the type of knowledge acquired by textbooks across a number of subjects
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media (PSEM)
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This book highlights and examines the role of the textbook in legitimising established political and social orders. It analyses the way in which the ‘other’ is presented in school textbooks, focusing on a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and argues that the role of textbooks in developing and maintaining a national identity should be afforded greater critical attention. Textbooks can help form national identities by developing a society’s collective memory; this might involve a historical narrative which may be self-contradictory or even fabricated to a certain extent, including myths, symbols and collective memories that divide “us” from “them”, and ultimately resulting a dichotomy between the Self and the Other. As well as addressing a range of theoretical questions relating to the study of textbooks generally, the volume also covers a broad spectrum of Middle Eastern states and societies, with contributions from Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Cyprus,Lebanon, Iraq, Kurdistan, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel and Palestine. It will be essential reading for researchers and students working in the fields of Education, Sociology and History, particularly those with an interest in national identities in the MENA region.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Elie Podeh is Professor of the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, and President of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI). His research interests include Middle Eastern history, politics and education.
Samira Alayan is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and Lecturer and Teacher Trainer at the David Yellin Teacher College, Jerusalem, Israel. Her research interests include education in conflict societies as well as textbooks and identities in the Middle East.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Multiple Alterities
Book Subtitle: Views of Others in Textbooks of the Middle East
Editors: Elie Podeh, Samira Alayan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62244-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62243-9Published: 07 February 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87268-1Published: 07 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62244-6Published: 18 December 2017
Series ISSN: 2662-7361
Series E-ISSN: 2662-737X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 362
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Schools and Schooling, Middle Eastern Culture, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education, Ethnicity in Education, Sociology of Education