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(Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict

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  1. Michelle J. Bellino

    1. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

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  2. James H. Williams

    1. The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

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  • The collection brings together diverse contemporary and historical cases of curricula, educational practice, and policy as implemented in conflict-affected and post-conflict contexts; these empirical studies bring new theoretical insights into the linkages between education, conflict, and national identity formation
  • The studies in this collection explore the potential roles of education as an instigator of inter- and intra-state conflict, a mechanism through which conflict dynamics are reproduced, and as a contributor to peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and national reconstruction efforts
  • The essays in this book explicitly seek to link curriculum and curricular reforms over time, to broader structures relevant to conflict, conflict legacies, and constructions of national identity

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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    1. Introduction

      • Michelle J. Bellino, James H. Williams
      Pages 1-20

  3. Nation-Building Projects in the Aftermath of Intimate Conflict

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    3. Ideologies Inside Textbooks

      • Saori Hagai, Yuto Kitamura, Khlok Vichet Ratha, William C. Brehm
      Pages 49-73

  4. Colonialism, Imperialism, and their Enduring Conflict Legacies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Creating a Nation Without a Past

      • Ashley L. Greene
      Pages 101-125

    4. The Crusades in English History Textbooks 1799–2002

      • Fiona Kisby Littleton
      Pages 147-169

  5. Interaction and Integration in Divided Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189
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  6. The Democratic Role of Schools as Mediating Institutions in Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 239-239
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    2. Living with Ghosts, Living Otherwise

      • Cathlin Goulding
      Pages 241-268

    3. When War Enters the Classroom

      • Diana Rodríguez Gómez
      Pages 269-289

    4. From Truth to Textbook

      • Julia Paulson
      Pages 291-311

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 335-339
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About this book

How do schools protect young people and call on the youngest citizens to respond to violent conflict and division operating outside, and sometimes within, school walls? What kinds of curricular representations of conflict contribute to the construction of national identity, and what kinds of encounters challenge presumed boundaries between us and them? Through contemporary and historical case studies—drawn from Cambodia, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Peru, and Rwanda, among others—this collection explores how societies experiencing armed conflict and its aftermath imagine education as a space for forging collective identity, peace and stability, and national citizenship. In some contexts, the erasure of conflict and the homogenization of difference are central to shaping national identities and attitudes. In other cases, collective memory of conflict functions as a central organizing frame through which citizenship and national identity are (re)constructed, with embedded messages about whobelongs and how social belonging is achieved. The essays in this volume illuminate varied and complex inter-relationships between education, conflict, and national identity, while accounting for ways in which policymakers, teachers, youth, and community members replicate, resist, and transform conflict through everyday interactions in educational spaces.

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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

    Michelle J. Bellino

  • The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    James H. Williams

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: (Re)Constructing Memory: Education, Identity, and Conflict

  • Editors: Michelle J. Bellino, James H. Williams

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-860-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers-Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2017

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-860-0Published: 08 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 340

  • Topics: Education, general

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