Integrated education in conflicted societies / edited by Claire McGlynn, Michalinos Zembylas, and Zvi Bekerman.

"This collection focuses on the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who would normally be educated apart are deliberately educated together. A variety of accounts from different geographical and socio-political sites - Catholic and Protestant in Nort...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: McGlynn, Claire (Editor), Zembylas, Michalinos (Editor), Bekerman, Zvi (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]
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Summary:"This collection focuses on the developing field of integrated education in conflicted societies, where children who would normally be educated apart are deliberately educated together. A variety of accounts from different geographical and socio-political sites - Catholic and Protestant in Northern Ireland, Palestinian and Jewish in Israel, and Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot in Cyprus, in addition to examples from Macedonia, Bosnia, and Croatia - are brought together, discussed and analyzed. In all of these accounts integrated education has been difficult to initiate, complex to sustain, and has aroused the suspicion of the local historically divided communities; nonetheless, those involved believe it to be essential in contributing to the healing of the wounds that afflict their societies, easing the path towards integration"--
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781137280985
1137280980
9781349447954
1349447951
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.