Cultures of Arab schooling
Subtitle: critical ethnographies from Egypt
By: edited by Linda Herrera, Carlos Alberto Torres.
Contributors: Herrera, Linda.; Torres, Carlos Alberto.
Publisher: State University of New York
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 109
ISBN-13: 9780791469019; 9780791469026
Subjects: Education -- Egypt.; Education -- Arab countries.; Educational sociology -- Egypt.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: possibilities for critical education in the Arab world / Linda Herrera and Carlos Alberto Torres; title: Islamization and education: between politics, profit, and pluralism / Linda Herrera; title: The production and reproduction of culture in Egyptian schools / Kamal Naguib; title: Subsistence education: schooling in a context of urban poverty / Ahmed Youssof Saad; title: A great vocation, a modest profession: teachers' paths and practices / Iman Farag; title: What are teachers transmitting? Pedagogic culture in rural Egypt / Fadia Maugith; title: The colors of change: participation and praxis in Egyptian education / Linda Herrera; title: Conclusion: the struggle for democratic education in the Arab world / Carlos Alberto Torres.