PALESTANIAN STATE FORMATION

Palestinian State Formation

Book Review: Palestinian State Formation

Summary of the Palestinian State Formation

This book represents a significant contribution to the study of the role of education in the formation of a Palestinian state. Vocational training Palestinian identity, which in turn affects how they treat their condition. Education gives the Palestinian Authority the opportunity to develop its institutional capacity. It contributes to economic developmsent, and, most importantly, in education, the parameters of identity transformed to serve the peace process and meet state building requirements. However, studies do not claim that the Palestinian national identity is constructed solely through the agency for education, but education plays an important role in the production of national identity.

Hovsepian first discuss the main problems of the Palestinian public education. The new Palestinian authority came from two conflicting functions, that of state-building and resistance. Does the system promote the identity of resistance, or state building legitimizing identity? Hovsepian is also seen as a form of international institutions of the Palestinian Development and education strategies. International agencies such as the World Bank to disseminate information that is relevant, what options would be taken by the Government and that educational priorities are selected.

The bulk of research evaluates the Palestinian education system to the base of the Palestinian Authority (PA), and after the institutionalization of the education system. Prior to the PA education system had many shortcomings, and the quality of education was in decline before the first intifada. After the 1987 Palestinian intifada, educators / activists initiated a discussion about the need to reform and revolutionize the structure and content of education. After the PA has arrived in Abu-Lughod and others have offered their vision and provided advice and participation of the radical method, which can be the basis of a strong education system. There efforts were not fully take hold. At present, the texts to identify the Palestinian citizen as someone who lives in a certain area, and thus excludes the refugees, but also de-emphasizes the history of resistance.

Original Ideas of the Author

The new Palestinian Authority took over two seemingly contradictory functions: state-building and resistance, and the dynamic tension between the two to raise key issues of political and policy analysis. Are these functions are mutually exclusive or complementary in the context of ongoing peace negotiations, and state-building? Can the Palestinian leadership to transform the Palestinian national movement with a revolutionary organization pragmatic state apparatus? There are PLO and the PA interchangeable? What type of government does the PA need to cultivate support or to enforce, against the Palestinian people for the project of nation-building? Obviously, the answers to these questions are directly related to the education system. Will this system to promote the identity of resistance and nation-building legitimizing identity.

This publication is a important assistance to the enquiry of the role of learning in the formation of the Palestinian state. Education borders the Palestinians' identity which in turn sways how they relate to their ...