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Educators of the Mediterranean… …Up Close and Personal

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Ronald G. Sultana

    1. University of Malta, Malta

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  • Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in Scope

Part of the book series: Comparative and International Education: A Diversity of Voices (CIEDV, volume 9)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Bio-academic Narratives and Educators of the Mediterranean

    • Ronald G. Sultana
    Pages 1-5

  3. Education Against All Odds

    • Gabi Baramki
    Pages 7-17

  4. Searching for Praxis and Emancipation in an Old Culture

    • Murad Jurdak
    Pages 19-29

  5. A Syrian Educationalist in the USA

    • Abdulkafi Albirini
    Pages 31-41

  6. Crossing Borders

    • Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
    Pages 43-58

  7. Reflections on Education and Transformation by a Jordanian-American Scholar

    • Fida Adely
    Pages 59-70

  8. Turkey

    • Ayla Oktay
    Pages 71-86

  9. Between Enduring Hardships and Fleeting Ideals

    • Mohamed Miliani
    Pages 87-98

  10. Retrospective and Experiential Perceptions on Education in Morocco by an Engaged Observer

    • M’hammed Sabour
    Pages 99-109

  11. From the Independence Generation to the Bouazizi Generation

    • Ali Hechmi Raddaoui
    Pages 111-120

  12. Power and Struggle for Education in Libya

    • Abdelbasit Gadour
    Pages 121-130

  13. Transforming Education, Transforming Lives in the Mena Region

    • Malak Zaalouk
    Pages 131-140

  14. Time, Space and Educational Desire

    • Marianna Papastephanou
    Pages 141-151

  15. An Eventful Journey

    • Marie Eliou
    Pages 153-162

  16. Emotions and Rationality in Political Consciousness

    • Xavier Bonal
    Pages 163-171

  17. Between Sociology and Policy of Education

    • Luciano Benadusi
    Pages 173-182

  18. On a Hard Rock

    • Mary Darmanin
    Pages 183-195

  19. Travelling, Not Arriving

    • António Nóvoa
    Pages 197-207

  20. The Educated Person and the New Capitalism

    • Franco Ferrarotti
    Pages 209-221
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About this book

“A score of prominent educators from South Europe and the Middle East and North Africa region speak about their upbringing, their educational and professional journeys, their academic achievements, and their struggles in order to enhance democracy, justice and equity in their countries and across the Mediterranean. The interviews in this volume shed light on educational movements, challenges, and aspirations in a region that is attaining increasing importance geo-politically, and in comparative and international studies. These are powerful and critical voices, providing readers with fresh, often unexpected insights about contexts, cultures, and convictions that deserve global attention. The interviews with these men and women inform, intrigue, but above all inspire, calling, as they do, for an earnest commitment to a vision of education as a transformative, democratising force. In contrast to the global, totalising discourse that has increasingly defined education in narrowly economistic terms, here are the beginnings of alternative agendas, inviting citizens to ‘read’ and decode the world around them, and to confront power, wherever it lies. In doing so, the educators in this volume draw upon and put at our disposal a wide array of theoretical lenses, nimbly weaving these within a narrative that speaks about a lifetime lived in the hope of making a difference. These, then, are vivid, engaging, and reflexive accounts, emerging from contexts where democracy has only recently taken root, if at all, and from a region that has come to symbolize the return of the political, and the reclaiming of the public sphere as a site for transformation, contestation, revolt, and hope.”

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Malta, Malta

    Ronald G. Sultana

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