From negative,
stereotypical portrayals of Palestinians in textbooks - if they are
mentioned at all - and maps that don't illustrate Israel's correct
borders, to strict censorship over what Palestinian citizens of Israel
are allowed to teach and learn, Peled-Elhanan explained that virtually
all subjects in the Israeli curriculum are imbued with some form of
extreme nationalism.
"It's going back to what's characterised in the research as the education of the 1950s: a very blunt, nationalistic, non-scientific presentation of the world, of us, and of the political situation of the place," Peled-Elhanan said.
"The purpose is to educate children to be good soldiers. You cannot be a good soldier if you do not have this image of an enemy which is a bit blurred, and you don't know much about the people except that they are 'problems' and 'threats'."
"It's going back to what's characterised in the research as the education of the 1950s: a very blunt, nationalistic, non-scientific presentation of the world, of us, and of the political situation of the place," Peled-Elhanan said.
"The purpose is to educate children to be good soldiers. You cannot be a good soldier if you do not have this image of an enemy which is a bit blurred, and you don't know much about the people except that they are 'problems' and 'threats'."
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