'Look, Each Side Says Something Different': The impact of competing history teaching approaches on Jewish and Arab adolescents' discussions of the Jewish-Arab conflict

Journal of Peace Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-29

  Goldberg, Tsafrir ^a   Ron, Yiftach ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

conflict resolution; high school; history teaching; intergroup negotiation; narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896491119     PISSN: 17400201     EISSN: 1740021X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17400201.2013.777897     Document Type: Article

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