Palestinian educational philosophy between past and present

Abstract

The article discuses the education issue as a central and decisive factor in shaping, reproducing and representing individual and collective identity. I present the Palestinian case study because the Palestinian people are at the present in a very critical period of constructing their national identity and education is part of the nation-building project. I have chosen to study two periods in the life of Palestinians, 1972 during the revolution and the present 1999 the start of the establishment of an independent Palestinian entity and to examine how the economic, social, political conditions etc. affect the formation of the educational philosophy of those periods; an educational philosophy that will affect the formation of education and the formation of private and collective consciousness. © 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers.