Promoting Social Cohesion through Education : Case studies and tools for using textbooks and curricula / Eluned Robert Schweitzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : World bank Institute, 2006.Description: vii, 154 p; 27 cmContent type:
  • Text
Media type:
  • Unmediated
Carrier type:
  • Volume
ISBN:
  • 0-8213-6565-0/0978-0-8213-6465-9
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 370.117 P94s
Contents:
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Divisive or Inclusive? Issues in Education and Social Cohesion; 1. Violence, Democracy, and Education: An Analytic Framework; 2. Education for Diversity: Investing in Systemic Change through Curriculum, Textbooks, and Teachers; Part II. Educating for Conflict or for Diversity? Case Studies; 3. Textbooks, Respect for Diversity, and Social Cohesion; 4. Textbooks in South Africa from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid: Ideological Change Revealed by Racial Stereotyping.
Summary: This volume has three foci - the rationale for considering how aspects of education can affect social cohesion; case studies that review particular country experiences with curricula and textbooks; and practical guidelines and applications to help countries improve areas of education.
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Includes bibliographic references and index

English

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Divisive or Inclusive? Issues in Education and Social Cohesion; 1. Violence, Democracy, and Education: An Analytic Framework; 2. Education for Diversity: Investing in Systemic Change through Curriculum, Textbooks, and Teachers; Part II. Educating for Conflict or for Diversity? Case Studies; 3. Textbooks, Respect for Diversity, and Social Cohesion; 4. Textbooks in South Africa from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid: Ideological Change Revealed by Racial Stereotyping.

This volume has three foci - the rationale for considering how aspects of education can affect social cohesion; case studies that review particular country experiences with curricula and textbooks; and practical guidelines and applications to help countries improve areas of education.

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