TY - BOOK AU - Alayan,Samira AU - Rohde,Achim TI - Politics of education reform in the Middle East: self and other in textbooks and curricula SN - 9780857454607 U1 - 371.3209174927 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Berghahn Books KW - Textbooks KW - Arab countries KW - Textbook bias KW - Curriculum change KW - Educational change KW - Government policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Contents Educational reform in the Arab world: directives, mechanisms, and challenges in Lebanon, Syria, and Oman /​ Nemer Mansur Frayha Education reform in Oman: evolution of secondary school curricula /​ Salha Abdullah Issan Educational developments in Jordan from the 1950s until today: stages and characteristics /​ Mohammad Khalil Abbas Major trends of educational reform in Egypt /​ Iman Farag On the impossibility of teaching history in Lebanon: notes on a textbook controversy /​ Massoud Daher History textbooks in Egyptian schools: a tool for the representation of collective memory /​ Atef Botros Different layers of identity in Lebanese textbooks /​ Jonathan Kriener The philosophical foundations of education and the range of its implications for the content of civic education textbooks in Jordan /​ Mustafa Abu al-Sheikh and Yasser al-Khalailah Gender images in Jordanian textbooks in the subject field of social education /​ Naseema al-Khalidi Images of Europeans in Jordanian textbooks /​ Qasem al-Newashi History curricula and textbooks in Palestine: between nation building and quality education /​ Samira Alayan Bridging conflicts through history education?: a case study from Israel/​Palestine /​ Achim Rohde ER -