The Bible, Hayden White, and the Settlements: Teaching Religious Zionist History in the Postmodern Era. Issue 2 (1st September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Weintraub, Roy
• Is Part Of: Journal of educational media, memory, and society. Volume 11:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 64
• Publication Date: 2019-09-01
• Subjects: contested narratives -- curriculum -- education in conflict -- history teaching -- Israel -- postmodernism -- Religious Zionism; Media programs (Education) -- Periodicals; Education -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Textbook bias -- Periodicals; Textbooks -- Periodicals; 371.3205
• DOI: 10.3167/jemms.2019.110203
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2041-6946

Abstract

Abstract : In recent decades, the impact of postmodern approaches to history teaching has triggered an extensive worldwide debate that accommodates diverse and contrasting voices. This article examines how the education system of Religious Zionism, one of the most important ideological movements in Israel, copes with this issue. This inquiry, which is based on Peter Seixas's conceptualization, analyzes the system's history curriculum, its latest textbooks, and an array of lesson plans. The analysis reveals a complex method of coping with postmodernism, including the adoption of clearly postmodern attitudes at the declarative level and the neutralization of their influence in practice.