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A Journey of Learning: the Curriculum In Iraqi Schools And Higher Education

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Reimagining Research for Reclaiming the Academy in Iraq: Identities and Participation in Post-Conflict Enquiry

Part of the book series: Studies in Inclusive Education ((STUIE,volume 15))

Abstract

The aim of this project is to analyze the school curriculum of post-invasion Iraq, and to examine whether it satisfies the aims of advocates for educational change, namely that the school curriculum becomes non-ideological and objective. However in the process of carrying out this research I have also reflected on the Social Science curriculum of Higher Education and the status of the research it produces. The main focus of this chapter is twofold: the first is an exploration of the social, political and epistemological difficulties of carrying out social science research which takes the school education system as its object; the second is my difficulties in explaining the politics of research in Iraq to a CARA audience.

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  1. Yahya Al-Kubaisi
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Heather Brunskell-Evans Michele Moore

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Al-Kubaisi, Y. (2012). A Journey of Learning: the Curriculum In Iraqi Schools And Higher Education. In: Brunskell-Evans, H., Moore, M. (eds) Reimagining Research for Reclaiming the Academy in Iraq: Identities and Participation in Post-Conflict Enquiry. Studies in Inclusive Education, vol 15. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-897-1_5

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