Lifeworlds and Change in Palestinian Education: Liberating Learning [Hardcover]

This timely volume critically assesses the state of education in Palestine, reframing the discourse on Israel-Palestine through the lens of education, and arguing for a paradigm shift in the way education in the region is studied, managed, and experienced.

Williamsons book on Palestinian education?is published while Palestinians in historic Palestine and in diasporas are experiencing?a second Nakba.? The ramifications of the Israeli war on Gaza will be felt in the whole region and beyond. The book based to a large extent on Palestinian testimonies contains much that is relevant to the Palestinian struggle for liberty and justice.? The book argues convincingly that democratizing education is necessary for the future of Palestine, the region, and the Western World.

Jamil Hilal is a well-known Palestinian sociologist.?He has taught sociology in British universities (Durham and London University College) and Dar al Salam University and has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University and at a number of Palestinian research and academic institutions, including Birzeit University.

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This brave and powerful book on education in Palestine masterfully articulates the need for change in education in the 'West' on Palestine as much as educational change in Palestine itself.? Williamson compellingly asserts the necessity for historical contextualisation and critical thinking - a 'decolonization of the mind of the colonized as well as of the colonizers.' Drawing on original accounts from teachers, researchers and civil society actors in Palestine, this book will no doubt become a seminal work in the field.

Dina Kiwan, Professor of Comparative Education, University of Birmingham, UK and Author of Academic Freedom and the Transnatiolƒ5