Full Description
The World Yearbook of Education 2010 volume, Education and the Arab 'World': Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power, strives to do justice to the complex processes and dynamics behind the world of Arab education. Western interest in all things 'Arab' has greatly increased over the course of the decade, but this interest runs the risk of forgetting that the Arab world is positioned within wider contexts of regional, geopolitical, and global processes.
This volume examines Arab education in a range of contexts - regional, diasporic, and trans-national - to better understand how the field of Arab education is formed through local, regional, geopolitical and global engagements and resonances. In doing so, contributors from a range of disciplines open critical conversations about the intersections of history, culture, geopolitics, policy, and education. The World Yearbook of Education 2010 offers new conceptual and empirical approaches that deal with some of the often-neglected aspects of the study of Arab education: contested political projects; struggles towards emancipation, recognition and liberation; and a larger concern for social justice, equity, and political inclusion.
André Elias Mazawi is associate professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. He is also an associate fellow at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research at the University of Malta.
Ronald G. Sultana is professor in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Malta, where he also leads the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. He is the founding editor of the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies.
Contents
1. Editorial introduction: Situating the world of Arab education: Critical engagements, André E. Mazawi & Ronald G. Sultana Section A: Contested Policyscapes 2. Privatizing education in the Maghreb: a path for a two-tiered education system, Abdeljalil Akkari 3. TVET reforms in the Arab region: The 'push' and 'pull' in policy development, Borhène Chakroun & Eva Jimeno Sicilia 4. The contested terrain of educational reform in Egypt, Fatma Sayed 5. Pressure groups, education policy and curriculum development in Lebanon: a policy maker's retrospective and introspective standpoint, Nemer Frayha Section B: Re-calling Voices 6. Education and ethnography: insiders, outsiders and gatekeepers, Linda Herrera 7. Performing patriotism: rituals and moral authority in a Jordanian high school, Fida Adely 8. 'To Educate an Iraqi-Jew' or: What can we learn from Hebrew autobiographies about Arab Nationalism and the Iraqi education system (1921-1952)? Orit Bashkin 9. Doing 'identity work' in teacher education: The case of a UAE teacher, Matthew Clarke Section C: Suspended Visibilities 10. The human right to education in Arab countries: an international law perspective, Sawsan Zaher 11. Inclusive education and children with disabilities in the Gulf Cooperation Council member states, Sara Ashencaen Crabtree & Richard Williams 12. The teaching of Amazigh in France and in Morocco: language and citizenship between pedagogy and power politics, Abdelouahad Mabrour & Khalil Mgharfaoui 13. Educational provision and spatial dis-[o]rientation among pastoralist communities in the Middle East and North Africa, Steven C. Dinero 14. Citizenship, difference and the schooling of Muslim children in Malta, Louise Chircop Section D: Knowledge Imaginaries 15. Nationalism, Islamic Political Activism, and Religious Education in the Arab Region, Rukhsana Zia 16. Going international: the politics of educational reform in Egypt, Iman Farag 17. Higher Education and Differentiation Based on Knowledge: Algeria's Aborted Dream, Hocine Khelfaoui 18. Arab youth, education and satellite broadcasting, Imad Karam Section E: Geopolitical Predicaments 19. American dreams of reinventing the 'Orient': 'digital democracy' and Arab youth cultures in a regional perspective, Omar El-Khairy 20. Palestinians, education, and the Israeli 'Industry of Fear', Nadera Shalhoub- Kevorkian 21. War, state collapse and the predicament of education in Iraq, Nabil Al-Tikriti 22. Representations of Arabs in Iranian elementary school text books, Golnar Mehran
