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Please note: The list only contains items and pieces of information
that are available on the web and should not be taken as a comprehensive
bibliography. The items are of different origin and quality and
the analyses that are given may be biased.
The inclusion of any particular item does not indicate positions
taken by the Oslo Coalition.
For
different perspectives on religion, tolerance and education in
Palestine/Israel, compare the
reports by CMIP (New York/Jerusalem) and MEMRI (Washington, DC) with the reports
and articles produced by Georg Eckert Institute (Germany),
IPCRI (The Israel/Palestine Center for Research
and Information Jerusalem), Brown, Reiss, Moughrabi, Adwan and
Firer.
See also the
official webpages of the Palestinian
Curriculum Development Center and the
"Learning Each Other's Historical Narrative" project
of PRIME (Peace Research
Institute in the Middle East)
2005
Martin
Patience: Professors'
history project opens new chapter for Israeli, Palestinian students
(USA Today, 11-10-2005)
Aaron D. Pina: Palestinian Education and the Debate over Textbooks. CRS Report for Congress, Updated May 2005.
Nadia
Najjab: Knowing
Thy Neighbour? (on religious education and identity in Palestine,
This Week in Palestine,
Issue 83, March 2005)
Nadia
Naser-Najjab: Politicizing Palestinian
education: IPCRI reports and the lack of objectivity (Palestine
Report March 09, 2005)
IPCRI: IPCRI Peace Education 2005
2004
Georg Eckert
Institute for International Textbook Research: Reviews of current Israeli
and Palestinian Textbooks (by Jonathan Kriener, Michael Kreutz,
Götz Nordbruch, Anabel Rett, Wolfram Reiss, Adel el Sayed, Andrea
Zempel)
IPCRI: Policy Paper on Palestinian
Text Books Reform (November 2004)
IPCRI: Policy Recommendations for Peace
Education in Israel and in the Palestinian Authority
(August 29, 2004)
IPCRI: 220 Israeli and Palestinian
Teachers and Educators Are Preparing a Revolution in the Educational
Systems (July 23, 2004)
IPCRI: IPCRI's Report on Fourth and
Ninth Grade Text Books of the Palestinian Authority (2004)
IPCRI:
Examination of
Israeli Textbooks in Schools of the State Educational System
(April 2004)MIFTAH: The Myth
of Incitement in Palestinian Textbooks (January 2004)
2003
Wolfram Reiss: Die
Juden im islamischen Religionsunterricht. Ein Vergleich ägyptischer,
jordanischer und palästinensischer Schulbücher (Ökumenische
Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr. 49, 50, 51
- Dezember 2003).
CMIP: Detailed comparison of the reports
on Palestinian textbooks (the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace and Report 1 of the Israel/Palestine
Center for Research and Information, December 2003)
IPCRI: IPCRI Issues New Report On Palestinian
Authority Text Books (May 20, 2003)
IPCRI: Analysis
and Evaluation of the New Palestinian Curriculum. Reviewing Palestinian
Textbooks and Tolerance Education Program (The Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information,
Jerusalem, March 2003).
CMIP: 2003
Palestinian Authority Textbook Calls for Jihad and Martyrdom
(Special Report No. 22, November 14, 2003 - The Middle East Media Research
Institute). Note:
The book in question is a reprint of a Jordanian textbook, i.e.
not among the new textbooks produced by the Palestinian authority.
CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace in Palestinian
textbooks. The New Textbooks
for Grades 3 and 8 (CMIP Report
No. PA-03-05, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, May 2003).
Sami Adwan
and Dan Bar-On: Shared
History Book Project (Peace Research Institute in the Middle
East, Beit Jalah, 2003)
2002
Nathan Brown: The International
Controversy Concerning Palestinian Textbooks, lecture delivered
at the Georg-Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research,
December 2002.
CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace
in the Palestinian Authority Textbooks and High School Examinations
(CMIP Report No. P-02-10, Center for Monitoring the Impact
of Peace)
CMIP: Arabs, Palestinians, Islam
and Peace in Israeli School Textbooks (Update for 2000-2001 and
2001-2002) (CMIP Report
No. I-02-08, Center for Monitoring the Impact
of Peace)
Ali Abunimah:
A
textbook case of Israeli propaganda (The Jordan Times, July
4, 2002)
Ruth Firer and Sami Adwan: Comparing Palestinian
and Israeli Textbooks (Arabic Media Internet Network, March
28, 2002). Cf. What do Israeli, Palestinian
texts say about conflict? (Jerusalem
Post Service/Jewish Bulletin of Northern California);
From Peace Making to Peace
Building – a comparative Israeli-Palestinian research project
on school textbooks and curricula plans in the subjects of history
and civics (Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research)
2001
Fouad Moughrabi: The Politics
of Palestinian Textbooks (Journal Of Palestine Studies, Vol
XXXI, No. 1, Autumn 2001, Issue 121)
Goetz Nordbruch: Narrating
Palestinian Nationalism. A Study of New Palestinian Textbooks
(Special Report No. 6, December 2, 2001 - The Middle East Media
Research Institute)
CMIP: Jews, Israel and Peace in Palestinian School Textbooks (CMIP Report No. P-01-11, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)
Nathan Brown:
Democracy,
History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum, paper
presented at the Adam Institute Conference on “Attitudes toward
the Past in Conflict Resolution,” Jerusalem,
November 2001. This paper
prompted a
discussion between the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace
and Nathan Brown.
Wolfram Reiss: Zur
Debatte um Antisemitismen in Palästinensischen Schulbüchern.
Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur Nr.
46, 13. November 2001, pp. 10-19.
Wolfram Reiss: Zum
besseren Verständnis der Kulturen und Religionen erziehen. Revision
der Darstellung des Islams und des Christentums in der Schule dringend
notwendig. Ökumenische Informationen der katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur
Nr. 43, 23. Oktober
2001, pp. 6-12)
Sophie Claudet
(Elisa Morena): Israel
or Palestine: who teaches what history? A textbook case (Le
Monde Diplomatique, July 2001)
CMIP: The Palestinian Authority School Books (CMIP Report No. P-01-03, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)
Nathan Brown:
Short summary
of research on Palestinian textbooks (originally appeared in
“Teaching about Terrorism”, a publication of CAJE, the Coalition
for the Advancement of Jewish Education)
Palestinians
Debate including the Holocaust in the Curriculum (MEMRI Special
Dispatch Series - No. 187 - Palestinian Authority, February 21,
2001)
Akiva
Eldar: What Did You Study In School Today,
Palestinian Child? (Ha'aretz, January 2, 2001)
>
2000
Khalil
Mahshi: If You Are For Truth,
You Seek The Truth First (Ministry of Education, Ramallah – December
21, 2000)
Saed
Abu Farha: PA Ministry of Education fights campaign
against Palestinian curricula (The
Jerusalem Times, 7 December 2001)
CMIP:
Arabs and Palestinians in Israeli Textbooks (CMIP Report No. I-00-09, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)
CMIP:
Jews, Israel and Zionism in the
Palestinian Authority’s Teacher’s Guides (CMIP Report TG-00-03, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace)
Maureen
Meehan: Israeli Textbooks and Children’s
Literature Promote Racism and Hatred Toward Palestinians and Arabs
(Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs. A special report on a study of Israeli
textbooks by a Tel Aviv University Professor, September 1999)
Sami Adwan: Analysis of The
1967 War Narrative In Palestinian History and Civic Education School
Textbooks (Toensberg: Vestfold
College, Report
4/98)
Compiled by Oddbjorn Leirvik (Faculty of Theology, University of Oslo)
for the Oslo
Coalition
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