Adoptive Witness - The Transmission of Collective Memory and Identity in the Israeli History Curriculum
[Thesis]
Neil Orlowsky
Dei, George J. Sefa
University of Toronto (Canada)
2017
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Committee members: Bickmore, Kathy; Wane, Njoki
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-53182-4
Ph.D.
Social Justice Education
University of Toronto (Canada)
2017
Discussions on formal education in Israel focus more on debating whether violent undertones, negation, othering and incitement exist in resources, and less on how curriculum fosters democracy and tolerance. This thesis study investigates how the adoptive witnessing of history embedded within mandated secular Jewish-Israeli history curriculum may be used as a tool of political indoctrination, through its reinforcement of psycho-cultural narratives and dispositions that perpetuate an 'us' versus 'them' siege mentality.
Education; Sociology; Curriculum development
Social sciences;Education;Anti-racism;Curriculum;Education;Narrative;Psychocultural conflict theory;Subjugated knowledge