ERIC Number: EJ1103373
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 34
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We Come to Form Ourselves Bit by Bit: Educating for Citizenship in Post-Conflict Guatemala
Rubin, Beth C.
American Educational Research Journal, v53 n3 p639-672 Jun 2016
Over the past several decades, the implementation of democratic citizenship education has become a common prescription for the civic reconstruction of post-conflict societies. Across the globe, educational changes are seen as fundamental to the creation of peaceful, tolerant, and democratic civic identities, the key to "social reconstruction, a better future, and a lasting peace." Drawing on qualitative data from varied schools in postwar Guatemala, this article illustrates a critical dilemma in post-conflict civic education: the difficulties of engaging directly with past and present injustice while moving toward a shared national identity. Global models of democratic, multicultural, and human rights education alone are inadequate for creating a new sense of citizenship in a country in which young people's sense of belonging and their interpretations of the past are deeply connected to how their communities are positioned within a profoundly inequitable power structure.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Citizenship Education, Conflict, Social Change, Democratic Values, Educational Change, Qualitative Research, Civics, Social Justice, Indigenous Knowledge, Social Influences, Cultural Influences, Youth Opportunities, Secondary School Curriculum, Social History, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Interviews, Focus Groups, War, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Administrator Attitudes, Observation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Guatemala
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