The Evolution and Implementation of a National Curriculum Under Conditions of Resistance

The Case of the Palestinians (1970–82)

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8967484
AutoresPhilipp O Amour (0000-0001-6287-4625, Sakarya University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen51
Número1
Páginas87-107
Fecha de publicación2018-12-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743818001137
OpenAlexW2904511349
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas48

Can a nation mobilizing for an extended armed conflict also construct and implement a national educational curriculum? This article explores the complex and crucial case of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as it sought to develop a national curriculum while in exile in Lebanon during the 1970s, prior to the inception of the Palestinian National Authority. Based on previously unexamined primary sources from PLO archives, I show how the PLO accomplished a high level of curriculum maturity despite considerable contextual and institutional challenges. The PLO mainstream embraced this curriculum as a political instrument of anticolonial and postdiasporic education suitable for regenerating a sense of community, fostering nation building, and increasing the PLO's political legitimacy. However, as can be expected in a colonial or diasporic setting, the process of educational transition remained uneven, fragile, and dependent on the PLO leadership's ability to navigate conflicts and negotiate arrangements with colonial power, host states, and international organizations

Colonialism · Construct (python library · Curriculum · Legitimacy · Mainstream · National curriculum · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Cultural Identity and Representation · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Public Administration