DOMESTICATING DEMOCRACY? Civic and Ethical Education Textbooks in Secondary Schools in Democratizing Ethiopia

Abstract

In 1994 in Ethiopia, after the fall of the military regime that had been in power since 1977, a new constitution was adopted, and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) was officially established. This chapter examines the role that civic education has played in permeating the concept of democracy in a multicultural developing country emerging from one-party rule.