Educating Egypt : civic values and ideological struggles /

"From the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Egypt was to socialize the population into adopting certain attitudes and behaviors conducive to the regimes in power. Control by the state over education was never entirely hegemonic, however, due to the persistent influen...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Herrera, Linda, 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cairo, Egypt ; New York, NY : The American University in Cairo Press, 2022.
Subjects:
Education and state > Egypt.
Islamic education > Egypt.
Education > Egypt.
Women > Education (Secondary) > Egypt.
Éducation > Politique gouvernementale > Égypte.
Musulmans > Éducation > Égypte.
Éducation > Égypte.
Femmes > Enseignement secondaire > Égypte.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Education.
Education and state.
Islamic education.
Women > Education (Secondary)
Egypt.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part One. Schooling the Nation : Inside a Girls' Preparatory School. 1. An ethnographer's orientation
  • 2. Schooling citizens
  • 3. Educating girls
  • 4. Teachers of the nation
  • 5. Grade fever
  • Part Two. Political Islam and Education. 6. The Islamist wave and education markets
  • 7. Experiments in counternationalism
  • 8. Downveiling
  • Part Three. Youth in a Changing Global Order. 9. Education, empire, and global citizenship
  • 10. Young Egyptians' quest for jobs and justice
  • 11. Youth and citizenship in the digital age : A view from Egypt
  • 12. It's time to talk about youth in the Middle East as "the precariat"
  • Part Four. Conclusions and Future Directions. 13. Is the school as we know it on its way to extinction?

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