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"Whether and How?" History Education about Recent and Ongoing Conflict: A Review of Research
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Paulson, Julia – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2015
This article reviews research on history education that addresses recent or ongoing conflict since 1990. History education is recognized as a key site for constructing identity, transmitting collective memory, and shaping "imagined communities," which makes its revision or reform a complex and important part of education in emergencies…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Conflict, Nationalism, Self Concept
Teachers' Views about Forgiveness in Israel and Cyprus: Mapping the Prospects of Forgiveness as an Educational Goal
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Zembylas, Michalinos; Bekerman, Zvi – Educational Review, 2012
The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of a study on the way that two sample group of teachers, one in Israel and one in Cyprus, perceive forgiveness. The study is grounded in moral-philosophical ideas about forgiveness and the data is collected via interviews and focus groups. The findings show that participants in both samples…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Focus Groups, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes
Teaching Contested Narratives: Identity, Memory and Reconciliation in Peace Education and Beyond
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Bekerman, Zvi; Zembylas, Michalinos – Cambridge University Press, 2012
In troubled societies narratives about the past tend to be partial and explain a conflict from narrow perspectives that justify the national self and condemn, exclude and devalue the 'enemy' and their narrative. Through a detailed analysis, Teaching Contested Narratives reveals the works of identity, historical narratives and memory as these are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict Resolution, Self Concept, Ceremonies
Reconciliation and Pedagogy. Postcolonial Politics
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Ahluwalia, Pal, Ed.; Atkinson, Stephen, Ed.; Bishop, Peter, Ed.; Christie, Pam, Ed.; Hattam, Robert, Ed.; Matthews, Julie, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012
Reconciliation is one of the most significant contemporary challenges in the world today. In this innovative new volume, educational academics and practitioners across a range of cultural and political contexts examine the links between reconciliation and critical pedagogy, putting forward the notion that reconciliation projects should be regarded…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Theories, Integrated Curriculum, Critical Theory
Working toward the De-Essentialization of Identity Categories in Conflict and Postconflict Societies: Israel, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland
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Bekerman, Zvi; Zembylas, Michalinos; McGlynn, Claire – Comparative Education Review, 2009
During the past decade, the authors have conducted research in their own countries, all of which are considered conflict or postconflict societies: Israel, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland. They have focused on a variety of topics related to peace education, reconciliation, and coexistence. Giving special emphasis to the formation of identity in…
Descriptors: Conflict, Peace, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education
The Middle East Revisited.
Caradon, Hugh – Indiana Social Studies Quarterly, 1982
Some factors are common to the confrontation of Cypriot Greeks and Turks and the confrontation of Palestinians and Israelis. An independent international initiative is necessary to solve these disputes. If the Europeans revive their Venice initiative at the United Nations, the Palestinians and Israelis will obtain peace and security. (AM)
Descriptors: Area Studies, Conflict Resolution, International Relations, Peace