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Agbaria, Ayman K. – Ethics and Education, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to problematize the place of religious authority in politics and education. Specifically, this essay highlights the role of religious authority in establishing a moral order that values compliance and conformity at the expense of liberty and critique. In doing so, the essay reflects on Israeli politics and Islamic…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Moral Values, Compliance (Psychology), Islam
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Yemini, Miri; Bronshtein, Yifat – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2016
Globalisation and technological advances in the twenty-first century have caused a blurring of national lines, which in the past were the basis of a nearly indisputable model of civic identity. This process has led to a noticeable trend of the globally oriented pressures within the national curricula, on top of the existing locally oriented…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Death, Jews, European History
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Rizvi, Fazal; Lingard, Bob – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This introductory essay to this special issue of Discourse on Edward Said and the cultural politics of education provides an overview discussion of four inter-related themes representing the wideranging scope of Said's academic and political writings. The first of these themes relates to his idea of Orientalism, through which Said sought to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Power Structure, Foreign Policy