@article{ref1,
title="Truth against truth: American and Arab history school textbooks portrayal of the Arab-Israeli conflict",
journal="Near and Middle Eastern journal of research in education",
year="2011",
author="Romanowski, Michael H. and Alkhateeb, Hadeel",
volume="2011",
number="online",
pages="1-1",
abstract="Textbooks reflect a national consensus regarding the knowledge, values and perspectives that a society wants conveyed to their students. Through textbooks, students are exposed to a dominant narrative that presents an official story that shapes contemporary patriotism (Hein and Selden, 2000). This paper centers on how the narratives of textbooks portray the Arab-Israeli conflict and other relevant events. Textbooks from Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and the United States are examined to determine what knowledge is transmitted to students about the Arab-Israeli conflict. Findings indicate that the conflict is oversimplified, important information is omitted and textbooks provide limited narratives of the conflict. The authors of this study suggest the implementation of a narrative-based approach to teaching history so that students are provided with opportunities to develop a critical analysis of textbook knowledge and to discover that historical events are composed of multiple narratives that should be examined.<p />",
language="",
issn="1703-1958",
doi="10.5339/nmejre.2011.1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/nmejre.2011.1"
}