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This study reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements, arguing that Palestinian and Hebrew pedagogy could only be truly understood through an analysis of the conscious or unconscious dialogue between them, by examining the way Arabs and Zionists thought, taught, and wrote about their past.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Reframing the Pedagogical Map
- 2: Roots of Educational Segregation
- 3: Peeking Over the Fence
- 4: Writing History
- 5: We the Semites: Reading Ancient History in Mandate Palestine
- 6: Teaching History
- 7: A Coalition of Good Will: History Introduction in Secondary Education
- 8: Learning History
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
About the author
Yoni Furas is a scholar of modern Middle Eastern and Palestinian history, interested in the history of late Ottoman and mandate Palestine, the sociology of Arab knowledge, and cultural aspects of the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. He received his DPhil from Oxford University in 2015 and served as a Thomas Arthur Arnold Fellow at Tel-Aviv University, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Truman Institute at Hebrew University.
Summary
This study reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements, arguing that Palestinian and Hebrew pedagogy could only be truly understood through an analysis of the conscious or unconscious dialogue between them, by examining the way Arabs and Zionists thought, taught, and wrote about their past.
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Based on a diverse array of sources and enlivened with descriptions of teachers' lives and excerpts from students' writings, the monograph fills a major gap in scholarship on the Mandate period and provides a new perspective on the conflict. [...] I highly recommend this monograph for those interested in colonialism, education, nationalist movements, the Mandate period, and Palestine-Israel.
