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Jonathan Kriener

Bochum Ruhr University

Lebanese – But How? Secular and religious conceptions of history and society at Lebanese schools

Graduated from the Department of Oriental Studies at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Jonathan Kriener has been coordinating the Middle East projects at the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research from 2002 to 2006. His fields of interest are the history of Lebanon and Israel/Palestine during the 20th century, as well as educational systems and educational policy in countries of the Middle East.

 

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Lebanese – But How? Secular and religious conceptions of history and society at Lebanese schools

The Lebanese constitution and the Taif Accord envision the progressive abolishment of confessionalism, which was intended to be Lebanon’s political and legal system only for a short interim period after independence. In other words, Lebanon was originally, and officially still is, intended to become a secular democracy. How do schools in Lebanon, through their humanities instruction, prepare the young generation for participating in nowadays civil and political life, on the basis of the confessional distribution of power and unequal personal status laws? And how do they prepare them for participation in the envisaged secular system? These are core questions of a PhD research into Lebanese educational system, and its curricula and textbooks in particular.