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Educational Scholarship across the Mediterranean
A Celebratory Retrospective
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The Mediterranean has once again come into its own in global geo-politics, attracting international interest that goes well beyond the typical stereotypes propagated by the tourist industry. Popular movements clamouring for democracy, conflict zones that have a spill-over effect well beyond the region, efforts to engage with globalisation on its own termsâone and all play out in various sectors of society, education included.
Educational Scholarship across the Mediterranean: A Celebratory Retrospective brings together in one volume a selection of the best articles that have appeared in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, whose first issue was published in 1996. Each chapter highlights challenges faced by education systems across the region, seen from the perspective of leading scholars who draw on original empirical data, a broad spectrum of theoretical frameworks, and personal experience to reflect on education-related topics. Among these we find critical considerations of the role of the economy, demography, gender, social stratification, religion, politics, culture and language in shaping educational systems and practices.
Much has been achieved in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean over the past 25 yearsâand yet, a consideration of the continuities as much as of the ruptures is instructive, showing how education remains both a transformative and reproductive force in communities.
Educational Scholarship across the Mediterranean: A Celebratory Retrospective brings together in one volume a selection of the best articles that have appeared in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, whose first issue was published in 1996. Each chapter highlights challenges faced by education systems across the region, seen from the perspective of leading scholars who draw on original empirical data, a broad spectrum of theoretical frameworks, and personal experience to reflect on education-related topics. Among these we find critical considerations of the role of the economy, demography, gender, social stratification, religion, politics, culture and language in shaping educational systems and practices.
Much has been achieved in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean over the past 25 yearsâand yet, a consideration of the continuities as much as of the ruptures is instructive, showing how education remains both a transformative and reproductive force in communities.
Ronald G. Sultana is Professor of Education at the University of Malta, and Founding Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research. He has published widely on a range of educational topics, most having equity as a central concern.
Michael A. Buhagiar is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Malta. His main interests include teacher education, action research, and problem-based learning, about which he has published several papers in peer reviewed journals.
Michael A. Buhagiar is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Malta. His main interests include teacher education, action research, and problem-based learning, about which he has published several papers in peer reviewed journals.
Preface: Back to the Future and the Politics of Hope
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Socialisation, Learning and Basic Education in Koranic Schools
âAbdel-Jalil Akkari
2 Is There a Semiperipheral Type of Schooling? State, Social Movements and Education in Spain, 1970â1994
âXavier Bonal and Xavier Rambla
3 Toward an Innovative University in the South? Institutionalising Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation in Research, Technology and Higher Education
âJorma Kuitunen
4 The Permanence of Distinctiveness: Performances and Changing Schooling Governance in the Southern European Welfare States
âPaolo Landri
5 Gramsci, the Southern Question and the Mediterranean
âPeter Mayo
6 Dis/Integrated Orders and the Politics of Recognition: Civil Upheavals, Militarism, and Educatorsâ Lives and Work
âAndré Elias Mazawi
7 The North African Educational Challenge: From Colonisation to the Current Alleged Islamist Threat
âPierre Vermeren
8 The Circulation of European Educational Theories and Practices: The Algerian Experience
âMohamed Miliani
9 State, Society, and Higher Education in Cyprus: A Study in Conflict and Compromise
âAnthony A. Koyzis
10 Global Discourses and Educational Reform in Egypt: The Case of Active-Learning Pedagogies
âMark B. Ginsburg and Nagwa M. Megahed
11 Values in Teaching and Teaching Values: A Review of Theory and Research, Including the Case of Greece
âEvangelia Frydaki
12 Peace Education in Israel: Encounter and Dialogue
âDov Darom
13 The Birth of âCitizenship and Constitutionâ in Italian Schools: A New Wall of Competences or Transition to Intercultural Education?
âSandra Chistolini
14 Private and Privatised Higher Educational Institutions in Jordan
âMuhammad Raji Zughoul
15 The Implications of Lebanese Cultural Complexities for Education
âLinda Akl
16 The Maltese Bilingual Classroom: A Microcosm of Local Society
âAntoinette Camilleri Grima
17 Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Education in Morocco
âMoha Ennaji
18 Conflict and Democracy Education in Palestine
âMaher Z. Hashweh
19 Navigating Religious Boundaries at School: From Legitimate to Specious Religious Questions
âMaria Esther Fernández Mostaza, Gloria GarcÃa-Romeral and Clara Fons I Duocastella
20 Human Rights Education: A Comparison of Mother Tongue Textbooks in Turkey and France
âCanan Aslan and Yasemin Karaman-Kepenekci
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
PART 1: Regional Focus
1 Socialisation, Learning and Basic Education in Koranic Schools
âAbdel-Jalil Akkari
2 Is There a Semiperipheral Type of Schooling? State, Social Movements and Education in Spain, 1970â1994
âXavier Bonal and Xavier Rambla
3 Toward an Innovative University in the South? Institutionalising Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation in Research, Technology and Higher Education
âJorma Kuitunen
4 The Permanence of Distinctiveness: Performances and Changing Schooling Governance in the Southern European Welfare States
âPaolo Landri
5 Gramsci, the Southern Question and the Mediterranean
âPeter Mayo
6 Dis/Integrated Orders and the Politics of Recognition: Civil Upheavals, Militarism, and Educatorsâ Lives and Work
âAndré Elias Mazawi
7 The North African Educational Challenge: From Colonisation to the Current Alleged Islamist Threat
âPierre Vermeren
PART 2: Country Focus
8 The Circulation of European Educational Theories and Practices: The Algerian Experience
âMohamed Miliani
9 State, Society, and Higher Education in Cyprus: A Study in Conflict and Compromise
âAnthony A. Koyzis
10 Global Discourses and Educational Reform in Egypt: The Case of Active-Learning Pedagogies
âMark B. Ginsburg and Nagwa M. Megahed
11 Values in Teaching and Teaching Values: A Review of Theory and Research, Including the Case of Greece
âEvangelia Frydaki
12 Peace Education in Israel: Encounter and Dialogue
âDov Darom
13 The Birth of âCitizenship and Constitutionâ in Italian Schools: A New Wall of Competences or Transition to Intercultural Education?
âSandra Chistolini
14 Private and Privatised Higher Educational Institutions in Jordan
âMuhammad Raji Zughoul
15 The Implications of Lebanese Cultural Complexities for Education
âLinda Akl
16 The Maltese Bilingual Classroom: A Microcosm of Local Society
âAntoinette Camilleri Grima
17 Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Education in Morocco
âMoha Ennaji
18 Conflict and Democracy Education in Palestine
âMaher Z. Hashweh
19 Navigating Religious Boundaries at School: From Legitimate to Specious Religious Questions
âMaria Esther Fernández Mostaza, Gloria GarcÃa-Romeral and Clara Fons I Duocastella
20 Human Rights Education: A Comparison of Mother Tongue Textbooks in Turkey and France
âCanan Aslan and Yasemin Karaman-Kepenekci
All interested in Mediterranean and regional educational studies, comparative education, education policy, education and development, politics of education, culture and education.