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Congratulations to Dr. Garnett Russell for the recent release of her book titled, “Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen”. Garnett Russell is an assistant professor of International and Comparative Education and the Director of the George Clement Bond Center for African Education.

About the book:

"In the aftermath of the genocide, the Rwandan government has attempted to use the education system in order to sustain peace and shape a new generation of Rwandans. Their hope is to create a generation focused on a unified and patriotic future rather than the ethnically divisive past. Yet, the government’s efforts to manipulate global models around citizenship, human rights, and reconciliation to serve its national goals have had mixed results, with new tensions emerging across social groups. Becoming Rwandan argues that although the Rwandan government utilizes global discourses in national policy documents, the way in which teachers and students engage with these global models distorts the intention of the government, resulting in unintended consequences and undermining a sustainable peace."

Read more and get your copy here.

Listen to Dr. S. Garnett Russell speak about her book on Wednesday, December 4th (5:30-7:30 pm, 306 Russell Hall).

Congratulations to Dr. Garnett Russell for the recent release of her book titled, “Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen”. Garnett Russell is an assistant professor of International and Comparative Education and the Director of the George Clement Bond Center for African Education.

About the book:

"In the aftermath of the genocide, the Rwandan government has attempted to use the education system in order to sustain peace and shape a new generation of Rwandans. Their hope is to create a generation focused on a unified and patriotic future rather than the ethnically divisive past. Yet, the government’s efforts to manipulate global models around citizenship, human rights, and reconciliation to serve its national goals have had mixed results, with new tensions emerging across social groups. Becoming Rwandan argues that although the Rwandan government utilizes global discourses in national policy documents, the way in which teachers and students engage with these global models distorts the intention of the government, resulting in unintended consequences and undermining a sustainable peace."

Read more and get your copy here!

"Some thirty-five percent of out-of-school children live in conflict-affected areas. These emergency situations include both human conflicts, such as, war and natural disasters, such as earthquakes. These children are in desperate need of help. Yet before anyone can act, information is critical. Information and data on education in emergencies is, however, inadequate in most cases."

Check out the FreshEd Podcast with Will Brehm here.

Read about the NORRAG Special Issue here.

Read the Blog about the NORRAG Special Issue co-authored with Arianna Pacifico here.

Citation: Mendenhall, Mary, interview with Will Brehm, FreshEd, 158, podcast audio, June 10, 2019. http://www.freshedpodcast.com/marymendenhall/

Dr. Felisa Tibbitts has been appointed UNESCO Chair in Human Rights in Higher Education in conjunction with her part-time research position at Utrecht University (Netherlands).

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Dr. Gita Steiner-Khamsi is the senior advisor of a five-country comparative study on “Policy Knowledge and Lesson-Drawing in Nordic School Reform in an Era of International Comparison,” which involves a social network analysis of school reforms in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden.

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Gifty Apoko lives with grandmother student at Aywee Nursery and primary school Palabek Settlement, Uganda. Photo Credit: Emmanuel Museruka

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Figure 1. Two-mode network of institutions and ILSAs events

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