IDSA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Facing History And Ourselves, Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation
13 Nov 2018
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Rethinking pedagogies in divided societies latin america, and around the world. Kathy bickmore formal and non-formal education practices can transform antagonistic group identities toward just, democratic, non-violent coexistence. Cultural practices that shape people s sense of collective identity, thinking and feeling. History education is often hotly contested because it is where such narratives are most visible. Interviews with 250 northern ireland secondary students, for example, showed strong identity-group influences on students" notions of history, although students knew about competing narratives and hoped school would help them to balance multiple perspectives. Palestinian and orthodox and non-orthodox jewish israeli youth have developed differing notions of national identity, and different narratives about each group"s citizenship roles. Textbook history narratives of the 1967 war blamed arabs for provocations and presented the israeli nation-state as heroic. Subsequent history textbooks had a more open and complex perspective, but the still-predominant zionist narrative left negligible space for meaningful cross-cultural understanding alternative narratives can encourage conflict transformation.
