ERIC Number: EJ1321552
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Jan
Pages: 12
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0574
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Rhetorical Devices of Palestinian and Israeli Official Memory: Palestinian and Israeli History School Textbooks as a Case Study
Journal of Education, v202 n1 p80-91 Jan 2022
Oslo Accords have stringently underscored that both rivalries, the Palestinians and the Israelis, must abstain from incitement to terror and violence. Their educational systems, consequently, have to refrain from convulsive, fundamentalist, and heinous skirmishes leading to stalled reconciliation. History school textbooks are deemed, from both parties, so relevant that they inherently embody their official memories. Regarded as the representations of the past and the formal institutions of the group, official memory incarnates the true existence of one's nation as it gives prominence to its history. To stave off potential detriments that may menace a country's viability, official memory is deployed as a shield against enticement, incitement, and lies' mongering. The present article indulges into a comparative rhetorical inspection of Israeli and Palestinian history school textbooks. Since it falls into the scope of argumentation and persuasion, rhetoric stands for the theoretical background of the study. The latter seeks to unveil the various rhetorical devices deployed by Palestinians and Israelis while conceiving their educational history textbooks to highlight the interconnectedness between history and official memory, on one hand, and the extent to which both school textbooks comply with Oslo Accords, on other hand.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, World History, Memory, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Textbook Content, Rhetoric, Cultural Differences, Educational History, Government Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Private Schools, Politics of Education, Mnemonics, Grade 5, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12, Grade 4, Grade 8, Religious Factors, Jews, Arabs
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Grade 9; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education; Grade 10; Grade 11; Grade 12; Grade 4; Grade 8
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel; Palestine
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