FROM CLASSROOMS TO CONFLICT IN RWANDA

This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contri bute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from the colonial peri od to the genocide, schooling was a key instrument of the state in contributing to the construction, awareness, collectivization, an d inequality of ethnic groups in Rwanda - all factors that underlay conflict. The book further argues that today's post-genocide sch ools are...[Leer más]