Lifeworlds and Change in Palestinian Education - Liberating Learning

This timely volume critically assesses the state of education in Palestine, re-framing the discourse on Israel-Palestine through the lens of education and arguing for a paradigm shift in the way education in the region is studied, managed and experienced.
Foregrounding the voices, commentaries and reflections of Palestinians as well as touching on differing elements of educational experience that define Palestinian identities, the book highlights that educational change in Palestine is inseparable from the need to change the politics and understanding of education in western societies. Chapters introduce the holistic concept of the lifeworld curriculum which proposes the idea that education cannot be conceived solely in relation to physical, educational spaces but in addition should acknowledge the conceptual spaces of civil society, communities and the world of work (the basic structures of Palestinian lives) in order to reinforce the idea that circumstances teach.
Ultimately challenging western educators to rethink their approaches to education and learning in order to build a stronger global platform for human rights, democratic engagement and justice, this book will be of value to scholars, researchers and postgraduate students in international and comparative education, multicultural education and educational change and reform more broadly.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Contexts of change in Palestinian education
Chapter 2: Education: the past in the present
Chapter 3: Childhood in Palestine
Chapter 4: Children encounter education
Chapter 5: Attitudes, ideology and possibilities in Palestinian vocational education
Chapter 6: Civil society and learning in Palestine
Chapter 7: Higher education in Palestine
Chapter 8: A new future for education in Palestine?
Afterword

About the author

Bill Williamson is Sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Continuing Education, Durham University, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Bill Williamson
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 28.11.2025
• EAN: 9781032709505
• ISBN: 978-1-032-70950-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Research in International and Comparative Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Comparative, Middle East, Organization & management of education, Regional Studies, Educational administration and organization, Regional / International studies, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Schools, Higher education, tertiary education, Multicultural education, Armed Conflict, Schools and pre-schools, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy