Education Policy and Power-Sharing in Post-Conflict Societies

Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-81038-6
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 317 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 4298 g

This book explores the nexus between education and politics in Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Macedonia, drawing from an extensive body of original evidence and literature on power-sharing and post-conflict education in these post-conflict societies, as well as the repercussions that emerged from the end of civil war. This book demonstrates that education policy affects the resilience of political settlements by helping reproduce and reinforce the mutually exclusive religious, ethnic, and national communities that participated in conflict and now share political power. Using curricula for subjects—such as history, citizenship education, and languages—and structures like the existence of state-funded separate or common schools, Fontana shows that power-sharing constrains the scope for specific education reforms and offers some suggestions for effective ones to aid political stability and reconciliation after civil wars. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fontana, Giuditta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Multikulturelle Pädagogik, Friedenserziehung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Bildungssystem Bildungspolitik, Bildungsreform

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- 2 Consociation and Education policy in Deeply Divided Societies.- 3 Compulsory Education in Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Macedonia.- 4 Reforming History Education.- 5 Formulating Citizenship Education.- 6 Languages of Instruction.- 7 Intergroup Contact and Separation in Schools.- Conclusion: Separate to Unite.

Über Autor(innen)

Giuditta Fontana is Leverhulme Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is also Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King’s College London, UK, and at the Centre for Conflict Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.