Nation-Building in Kenyan Secondary School Textbooks

Traumatic experiences of Kenyan secondary school students.

BACKGROUND There is no information on the socio-demographic variations and determinants of Trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in Kenyan adolescents. OBJECTIVES To describe the traumatic experiences of Kenyan high school students and to determine the levels of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) among them, and in relation to sociodemographic variables. DESIGN A cross-section...

An Experimental Study of Probabilistic Language in Secondary School Textbooks

The teaching of probability is currently being reinforced in many countries, as it is visible from new curricular documents such as the NCTM Standards (2000), where the acquisition of a precise language in connection to chance and probability is considered to be a main learning goal. On the other hand, textbooks are an important resource for teachers who can find in these books ideas and activi...

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

Modernism and Nation Building