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    Educational sector, reforms, curricula and textbooks in selected MENA countries. Images of 'Self' and 'Other' in textbooks of Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and Oman
    (Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung, 2011) Pingel, Falk; Kröhnert-Othman, Susanne
    This report is based on a project conducted by the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (GEI) from 2006 to 2009, focusing on textbook revision and educational reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The project was funded by the German Foreign Office. The GEI’s principal aim was to contribute to a constructive dialogue between European and Muslim majority countries of the MENA region. For this purpose, a broad network of scholars, curriculum experts and representatives of Ministries of Education (MOE) from both regions was established during the four-year duration of the project. The network examined, assessed and exchanged views on the various education systems.
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    Foreigner and foreignness in textbook literature
    (Georg-Eckert-Institut für Internationale Schulbuchforschung, 2009) Vogrinčič, Ana; Čepič, Mitja
    The paper deals with the question how the elementary school history textbook treats a role of a foreigner and the concept of foreignness as a universal indicative attribute of everything foreign in general. Using critical discourse analysis and referring to representative examples the authors point at often dubious implications and recurrent implicit and quasi self-evident assumptions hidden in the history textbook. The analysis relies heavily on the methods of pragmatics, especially on Grice "principle of co-operation in discovering the implicit messages" i.e. the notion of otherness in history textbooks. It reveals that the "other" is represented in (at least) two distinct ways. In the first place history textbooks were found to encourage the construction of national (Slovenian) identity by differentiation from foreigners that are European and Christian, where the process of identification can be both negative (enemies that try to destroy "us") and positive (the developed west). Secondly, there is the absolute "other"; non-European and non-Christian, where no positive identification is possible. In either case what we are witnessing, is the construction of a European identity.