The new Palestinian textbooks: A strategy for national identity and self-determination

Samira Alayan; Celia Riley

doi:10.1111/nana.12976

The new Palestinian textbooks: A strategy for national identity and self-determination

Samira Alayan^*, Celia Riley

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As part of an effort to establish a national identity within the education sector, the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) revised its 2018/2019 textbooks. This study seeks to understand the motivation behind the revisions, focusing on how the new content depict ‘the self’ and ‘the other’. Through our analysis, it was discovered that the textbooks should be seen as an extension of the Palestinian struggle for nation-building and self-determination. The PNA's strategy to curricula development represents a departure from the previous Oslo framework with a focus on historical Palestine and defining ‘the other’ on their own terms.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	235-261
Number of pages	27
Journal	Nations and Nationalism
Volume	30
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12976
State	Published - Apr 2024

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Palestinian Nationalism
education curricula
national identity
textbooks

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