ERIC Number: EJ1304851
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018-Aug
Pages: 32
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Fifi the Punishing Cat and Other Civic Lessons from a Lebanese Public Kindergarten School
Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda; Kaloustian, Garene; Wesley Bonet, Sally; Chatila, Samira
Journal on Education in Emergencies, v4 n1 p13-44 Aug 2018
Across the world, education is tasked with rebuilding societies torn apart by violent conflict and riven by economic injustice. In this article, we focus on kindergarten education in the vulnerable, conflict-ridden Lebanese context. However, rather than analyzing the academic learning offered to the children, we consider the affective civic education they are getting through the everyday practices in their classrooms and schools and explore their agency within this social world. By affective civic education we mean the ways that children, even those as young as three to five, are developing embodied messages about their public place as citizen-subjects: about belonging and/or exclusion; about how they are expected to relate to power and authority; and about how to act within and on their social world. Thus, we analyze how children are educated into the affective, lived dimensions of citizenship and belonging.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Citizenship Education, Social Development, Public Schools, Conflict, Educational Practices, Early Childhood Education, Child Development, War, Refugees, Poverty, Power Structure, Teaching Methods, Student Needs, Punishment, Discipline
Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies. 122 East 42nd Street, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10168. e-mail: journal@inee.org; Web site: https://inee.org/evidence/journal
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Lebanon
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