Book chapter
The New Order
An Incurable Past
University Press of Florida
05/28/2013
DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813044040.003.0003
Abstract
This chapter tests the limits of institutional hegemony over public historical narratives by examining present pedagogical practices, social studies, and social studies curricula published in the fifty years between 1948 and 1998〈n〉2000. It shows that schools and textbooks in Egypt have little effect on the construction of a “national memory.” Pedagogical practices and public schools indeed generate historical ignorance about the nation’s past, particularly the post-1952 period. The school system contributes to reinforcing social inequalities despite ideological promises of emancipation that date from the 1950s.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The New Order
- Creators
- Mériam N Belli
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- An Incurable Past
- DOI
- 10.5744/florida/9780813044040.003.0003
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/28/2013
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9984011784702771
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