Education Policy And Power-sharing In Post-conflict Societies: Lebanon, Northern Ireland, And Macedonia
by Giuditta Fontana /
2016 / English / PDF
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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.
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.