The politics of education reform in the Middle East
Subtitle: self and other in textbooks and curricula
By: edited by Samira Alayan & Achim Rohde ; with Sarhan Dhouib
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857454607; 9780857454614
Subjects: Textbooks; Educational change; Curriculum change; Textbook bias; Government policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman / Nemer Mansur Frayha; title: Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula / Salha Abdullah Issan; title: Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics / Mohammad Khalil Abbas; title: Major trends of educational reform in Egypt / Iman Farag; title: On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy / Massoud Daher; title: History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory / Atef Botros; title: Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks / Jonathan Kriener; title: 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; title: Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education / Naseema al-Khalidi; title: Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks / Qasem al-Newashi; title: History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education / Samira Alayan; title: Bridging conflicts through history education?: a case study from Israel/Palestine / Achim Rohde.