To Obey or Disobey? This is the question’ NDE
Nonviolent disobedience education in Israeli and US civics textbooks (1980–2012)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12876271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruth Firer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88-111 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1740-0201 • E-ISSN: 1740-021X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17400201.2013.767058 |
| OpenAlex | W2050150875 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
‘To Obey or Disobey’ should be a life question for all free people, but for the Israelis, who are in intractable war with their neighbors while facing constant rifts among themselves, it is a concrete problem they have to face every day. Therefore, the research question posed by this article is: How is obedience of laws or military orders presented in Israeli and US Civics textbooks, and why? It examines the discussions of the issue referring to examples such as: Kfar Kassem in Israel (1956) when 43 Palestinian civilians were shot by a military Israelis obeying orders; the convicted soldiers were released after a short while. Other sensitive examples are: the atrocities committed during Vietnam War, and the US and the Israeli military ‘refuseniks.’ Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King are mentioned in the textbooks as positive examples for nonviolent protest. While this article is primarily concerned with the Israeli Civics textbooks, it compares them to a random selection of US textbooks in order to obtain a proper perspective of the Israeli texts. A total of 25 Civics textbooks are analyzed: 12 from Israel and 13 from the USA, from the period 1980–2012. Many textbooks that ignored the issue of civil/military nonviolent disobedience were reviewed, but only these chosen 25 include the dilemma under examination
Civics · Civil disobedience · Democracy · Obedience · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Psychology · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification
Content analysis in communication research
Prejudice in Discourse
Education and Power
The authority of lawEssays on law and morality
The Claim to Moral Adequacy of a Highest Stage of Moral Judgment
Obedience to authority
A Theory of Justice
Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences
On Civil Disobedience
The Clash of Civilizations
The theory of communicative action
Ideology and Curriculum
Courage to Refuse
Human Rights in History and Civics Textbooks
Education as Text
Conquest of Violence
The Practical
Conquest of Violence
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