From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda (Hardcover, New)

This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from the colonial period to the genocide, schooling was a key instrument of the state in contributing to the construction, awareness, collectivization and inequality of ethnic groups in Rwanda - all factors that underlay conflict. The book further argues that today's post-genocide schools are dangerously replicating past trends. This book is the first to offer an in-depth study of education in Rwanda and to analyze its role in the genesis of conflict. The book demonstrates that to build peace, we cannot simply prescribe more education, but must understand who has access to schools, how schools are set up, and what and how they teach.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	December 2013
Authors:	Elisabeth King
Dimensions:	231 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	226
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-03933-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Books > Social sciences > Education > Organization & management of education > General Promotions
LSN:	1-107-03933-9
Barcode:	9781107039339

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