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Int Rev Educ (2012) 58:465480 DOI 10.1007/s11159-012-9296-2
Michalinos Zembylas
Published online: 23 May 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Abstract Drawing into a discussion of the politicisation of emotion, this paper develops a framework to analyse some of the processes and strategies by which educational policies and pedagogical practices emotionalise the representation of refugees in conict-ridden societies such as Cyprus and explores the implications for peace education. In particular, this paper aims to rene our understanding of how emotions affect the ways in which educational policies and practices reproduce self-other dichotomies through certain representations of the refugee experience. It is argued that these dichotomies are relevant to the emotional reactions against peace education initiatives. Second, this paper examines alternative possibilities of promoting peaceful coexistence, while taking into consideration the affective (re)production of refugee representations yet without undermining the refugee experience. Better understanding of how emotion is involved will help educational policy-makers and teachers in divided societies to take into account the hitherto poorly developed aspects of the ways in which emotions, the refugee experience and peace education are inextricably intertwined.
Keywords Refugees Emotion Peace education Cyprus
Rsum (Re)Production affective des reprsentations de rfugis travers les politiques et pratiques ducatives : reconceptualiser le rle de lmotion dans lducation la paix au sein dun pays divis Entamant un dbat sur la politisation de lmotion, lauteur de cet article labore un cadre qui permet danalyser certains processus et stratgies par lesquels les politiques ducatives et pratiques pdagogiques motionalisent la reprsentation des rfugis dans les socits dchires par les conits telles que la Chypre, puis en dgage les implications pour lducation la paix. En particulier, lauteur vise afner notre conception quant la faon
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Open University of Cyprus, Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus e-mail: [email protected]
The affective (re)production of refugee representations through educational policies and practices: Reconceptualising the role of emotion for peace education in a divided country
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dont les motions inuencent la reproduction par les politiques et pratiques ducatives de lopposition entre soi-mme et lautre, travers certaines reprsentations de lexprience des rfugis. Lauteur avance que cette dichotomie est en lien avec les ractions motionnelles hostiles aux initiatives dducation la paix. En deuxime lieu, lauteur examine les alternatives possibles pour la promotion dune coexistence pacique,...