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Sommario
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Educating Egypt: From Nation Building to Digital Disruption
Part 1: Schooling the Nation: Inside a Girls’ Preparatory School
1: An Ethnographer’s Orientation
2: Schooling Citizens
3: Educating Girls
4: Teachers of The Nation
5: Grade Fever
Part 2: Political Islam and Education
6: The Islamist Wave and Education Markets
7: Experiments in Counter-Nationalism
8: Downveiling
Part 3: Youth in a Changing Global Order
9: Education, Empire, and Global Citizenship
10: Young Egyptians’ Quest for Jobs and Justice
11: Youth and Citizenship in the Digital Age: A View from Egypt
12: It’s Time to Talk about Youth in the Middle East as “The Precariat’
Part 4: Conclusions and Future Directions
13: Is the School as We Know it on its Way to Extinction?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Info autore
Linda Herrera, a social anthropologist with regional expertise in North Africa and West Asia with a focus on Egypt, is a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research deals broadly with education, citizenship, youth cultures, and geopolitics. Her books include,
Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet,
Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East,
Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (with A. Bayat), and
Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (with C.A. Torres).
