TY - JOUR
T1 - The unbearable lightness of being implicated in conflict-affected societies
T2 - can teachers do anything about it?
AU - Zembylas, Michalinos
AU - Bekerman, Zvi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, Michalinos Zembylas and Zvi Bekerman.
PY - 2024/12/3
Y1 - 2024/12/3
N2 - Purpose: In this reflective essay, the authors explore how thinking with the notions of implication and complicity may encourage or hinder efforts to engage teachers in problematizing victim-perpetrator binaries in conflict-affected societies. Design/methodology/approach: This reflective essay draws on lessons learned from the authors’ long-time work with teachers in Cyprus and Israel. The authors suggest that the concept of implication provides a productive framework for thinking about teachers’ professional responsibilities in more complex and nuanced ways. Findings: The reflections of the two authors highlight the challenges and possibilities of overcoming essentialist categories of “victims” and “perpetrators” in conflict-affected societies. Originality/value: This essay shows the (im)possibilities of transforming the prevailing binaries in communities experiencing political conflict.
AB - Purpose: In this reflective essay, the authors explore how thinking with the notions of implication and complicity may encourage or hinder efforts to engage teachers in problematizing victim-perpetrator binaries in conflict-affected societies. Design/methodology/approach: This reflective essay draws on lessons learned from the authors’ long-time work with teachers in Cyprus and Israel. The authors suggest that the concept of implication provides a productive framework for thinking about teachers’ professional responsibilities in more complex and nuanced ways. Findings: The reflections of the two authors highlight the challenges and possibilities of overcoming essentialist categories of “victims” and “perpetrators” in conflict-affected societies. Originality/value: This essay shows the (im)possibilities of transforming the prevailing binaries in communities experiencing political conflict.
KW - Cyprus
KW - Israel
KW - Teachers
KW - The implicated subject
KW - Victims/perpetrators
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85203378584&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1108/jpcc-05-2024-0082
DO - 10.1108/jpcc-05-2024-0082
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AN - SCOPUS:85203378584
SN - 2056-9548
VL - 9
SP - 291
EP - 299
JO - Journal of Professional Capital and Community
JF - Journal of Professional Capital and Community
IS - 4
ER -