On June 1, 2011, EDST presented Dr. Samira Alayan speaking on “Images of Identity: Self and Other in School Textbooks of the Palestinian Authority.” The study analyzes representations of self and “Other” in ministry-approved history textbooks for secondary level in Palestine. Samira Alayan holds a PhD in the sociology of education from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a research fellow at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, Braunschweig, Germany. Her research focuses on education in the Middle East in conflict and post-conflict settings.
If you want to learn more about the topic, read the abstract (.pdf) and the event poster.
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