From Classrooms to Conflict in Rwanda

by Elisabeth King

Book Overview

This book questions the conventional wisdom that education builds peace by exploring the ways in which ordinary schooling can contribute to intergroup conflict. Based on fieldwork and comparative historical analysis of Rwanda, it argues that from the colonial period to the genocide, schooling was a key instrument of the state in contributing to the construction, awareness, collectivization and inequality of ethnic groups in Rwanda - all factors that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107557550
• ISBN13: 9781107557550
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"