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Title Promoting Social Cohesion through Education : Case Studies and Tools for Using Textbooks
Published Washington, DC : World Bank, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 154 pages)
Series WBI learning resources series
WBI learning resources series.
World Bank e-Library.
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Dedication; Contributors; Introduction; Part I. Divisive or Inclusive? Issues in Education and Social Cohesion; 1. Violence, Democracy, and Education: An Analytic Framework; 2. Education for Diversity: Investing in Systemic Change through Curriculum, Textbooks, and Teachers; Part II. Educating for Conflict or for Diversity? Case Studies; 3. Textbooks, Respect for Diversity, and Social Cohesion; 4. Textbooks in South Africa from Apartheid to Post-Apartheid: Ideological Change Revealed by Racial Stereotyping
Summary This volume has three foci - the rationale for considering how aspects of education can affect social cohesion; case studies that review particular country experiences with curricula and textbooks; and practical guidelines and applications to help countries improve areas of education
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Multicultural education -- Case studies
Cultural pluralism in textbooks -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Multicultural Education.
Cultural pluralism in textbooks
Multicultural education
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Roberts-Schweitzer, Eluned, 1948-
Greaney, Vincent.
Duer, Kreszentia, 1949-
ISBN 9780821364659
0821364650
0821364669
9780821364666
1280348836
9781280348839