Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History Under the Mandate

✍ Scribed by Yoni Furas

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 337
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Educating Palestine, through the story of education and the teaching of history in Mandate Palestine, reframes our understanding of the Palestinian and Zionist national movements. It argues that Palestinian and Hebrew pedagogy could only be truly understood through an analysis of the conscious or unconscious dialogue between them. The conflict over Palestine, the study shows, shaped the way Arabs and Zionists thought, taught, and wrote about their past. British rule over Palestine promised the Jews a national home, but had no viable policy towards the Palestinians and established an education system that lacked a sustainable collective ethos. Nevertheless, Palestinian educators were able to produce a national pedagogy that knew how to work with the British and simultaneously promoted an ideology of progress and independence that challenged colonial rule.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Educating Palestine: Teaching and Learning History under the Mandate
Copyright
Dedication
Abbreviations
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Photos
Introduction
Natives and Nonnatives in Search of the New
‘Dual Society’ and ‘Relational’ Theories: A Compromise
Historicizing Arab and Hebrew Education
Sources and Structure of the Book
1 Reframing the Pedagogical Map
Education in Late Ottoman Palestine
Ever Prepared: Hebrew Education on the Eve of the Great War
Arab Systems of Education, Reconfigured as a Millet
A Mandate of Their Own: The Hebrew System
2 Roots of Educational Segregation
Mission Schools and the Sustainability of Mixed Education
Rapprochement as Lip Service
Crossing the Lines
Not That There Is Anything Wrong with Rapprochement
Conclusion
3 Peeking over the Fence
Spying on Educators: Arab Education through the Eyes of the Shai
The Mapping and Classification of Everything: The Village Files
Insurgents, Nazis, Communists, and Teachers
Hotbeds of Nationalism
Conclusion
4 Writing History
Traveling Knowledge: The Production of Arabic Textbooks in Palestine
A Small World Indeed
A Small World into ‘Olam Qaton
Possible Encounters
‘Anabtawi and Miqdadi’s ‘New Arabs’
Historiography and the Other
Conclusion
5 We the Semites: Reading Ancient History in Mandate Palestine
Becoming Semites
Adopting Racial Categories
East, then West
Colonization of Canaan
Conclusion
6 Teaching History
Archaeology of the Curriculum
Tabulating Palestine
The History Syllabus
The Colourful Hebrew History Syllabus
No Other
Pedagogy between Centre and Periphery
Used, Unused, and Misused Textbooks
Conclusion
7 A Coalition of Good Will: History Instruction in Secondary Education
Shouted from the Housetops: Matriculating in History
Sola Scriptura
8 Learning History
Inventing an Educational Calendar
Knowing the Land
Scouting the Land
Elusive Voices: Students’ Essays in School Journals
Darkness Surrounds the School
Saving the Drowning Homeland
Language and Nation
Our History, Their History
Missing Jews
An Alternative Tomorrow, al-Ghad
School Journals in Hebrew
Children’s Literature in Arabic
High School Journals and the Darkness Surrounding the Hebrews
They Are the East
Making History
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography
Archives
Interviews
Periodicals in Arabic
Hebrew Periodicals
Periodicals in English
School Curricula
Online Sources
Official Government Publications
Other Publications
Books and Articles
List of Arabic History textbooks
List of Arabic Geography Textbooks
List of Hebrew History Textbooks
Index