LEADER 03968nam  2200673 a 450 
001 9910779136003321
005 20200520144314.0
010   $a1-280-87607-7
010   $a9786613717382
010   $a0-85745-461-7
024 7 $a10.1515/9780857454614
035   $a(CKB)2550000000104918
035   $a(EBL)951814
035   $a(OCoLC)806520915
035   $a(SSID)ssj0000701736
035   $a(PQKBManifestationID)12278658
035   $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000701736
035   $a(PQKBWorkID)10675983
035   $a(PQKB)10564510
035   $a(Au-PeEL)EBL951814
035   $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10578600
035   $a(CaONFJC)MIL371738
035   $a(MiAaPQ)EBC951814
035   $a(DE-B1597)636976
035   $a(DE-B1597)9780857454614
035   $a(EXLCZ)992550000000104918
100   $a20111208d2012      uy             0
101 0 $aeng
135   $aur|n|---|||||
181   $ctxt
182   $cc
183   $acr
200 04$aThe politics of education reform in the Middle East$b[electronic resource] $eself and other in textbooks and curricula /$fedited by Samira Alayan, Achim Rohde & Sarhan Dhouib
210   $aNew York $cBerghahn Books$d2012
215   $a1 online resource (285 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-85745-460-9 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aEducational 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.
330   $aEducation 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
606   $aTextbooks$zArab countries
606   $aTextbook bias$zArab countries
606   $aCurriculum change$zArab countries
606   $aEducational change$xGovernment policy$zArab countries
615  0$aTextbooks
615  0$aTextbook bias
615  0$aCurriculum change
615  0$aEducational change$xGovernment policy
676   $a371.3/20917/4927
701   $aAlayan$b Samira$01537741
701   $aRohde$b Achim$f1969-$0853944
701   $aDhouib$b Sarhan$01537742
801  0$bMiAaPQ
801  1$bMiAaPQ
801  2$bMiAaPQ
906   $aBOOK
912   $a9910779136003321
996   $aThe politics of education reform in the Middle East$93787249
997   $aUNINA