Educating Egypt

Civic Values and Ideological Struggles

Dr. Linda Herrera (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2022
American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-1-64903-102-0 (ISBN)

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The everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political battles that have shaped Egyptian education, from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of digital disruption in the twenty-first

From the 1952 revolution onward, a main purpose of formal education in Egypt was to socialize children and youth into adopting certain attitudes and behaviors conducive to the regimes in power. Control by the state over education was never entirely hegemonic. National education came increasingly under pressure due to a combination of the growing privatization of the education sector, the growth of political Islam, and rapidly changing digital technologies.

Educating Egypt traces the everyday practices, policy ideas, and ideological and political and economic contests over education from the era of nation-building in the twentieth century to the age of global change and digital disruption in the twenty-first. Its overarching theme is that schooling and education, broadly defined, have consistently mirrored larger debates about what constitutes the model citizen and the educated person. Drawing on three decades of ethnographic research inside Egyptian schools and among Egyptian youth, Linda Herrera asks what happens when education actors harbor fundamentally different ideas about the purpose, provision, and meaning of education. Her research shows that, far from serving as a unifying social force, education is in reality an ongoing battleground of interests, ideas, and visions of the good society.

Linda Herrera, a social anthropologist with regional expertise in North Africa and West Asia with a focus on Egypt, is a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research deals broadly with education, citizenship, youth cultures, and geopolitics. Her books include, Revolution in the Age of Social Media: The Egyptian Popular Insurrection and the Internet, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East, Being Young and Muslim: New Cultural Politics in the Global South and North (with A. Bayat), and Cultures of Arab Schooling: Critical Ethnographies from Egypt (with C.A. Torres).

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Educating Egypt: From Nation Building to Digital Disruption

Part 1: 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 2: Political Islam and Education
6: The Islamist Wave and Education Markets
7: Experiments in Counter-Nationalism
8: Downveiling

Part 3: 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 4: Conclusions and Future Directions
13: Is the School as We Know it on its Way to Extinction?

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	14 b&w illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-64903-102-5 / 1649031025
ISBN-13	978-1-64903-102-0 / 9781649031020
Zustand	Neuware