A key? Conflict, and the struggle for an ecology of dialogue, learning and peace among Israeli Jewish and Palestinian educators
Book chapter
Bainbridge, A. and West, L. 2021. A key? Conflict, and the struggle for an ecology of dialogue, learning and peace among Israeli Jewish and Palestinian educators. in: Bainbridge, A., Formenti, L. and West, L. (ed.) Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research: An Ecology of Life and Learning Leiden Brill Academic Publishers. pp. 121-139
Authors | Bainbridge, A. and West, L. |
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Editors | Bainbridge, A., Formenti, L. and West, L. |
Abstract | This chapter is about the potential for using auto/biographical narrative enquiry in teaching and research to build small ecologies of learning, healing, dialogue and peace across trauma, and profound difference. This as part of an educational project to encourage active citizenship and democratic values in teacher education in Israel, among Palestinian and Jewish educators. Auto/biographical narrative workshops and research were used to chronicle common experiences of trauma, hurt and insecurity within the unresolved conflict between Israel and Palestine. Here the other, for many Palestinians, is the Israeli Jewish colonizer over 70 years and more. For Israeli Jews, the other can be perceived as a would-be terrorist, uncivilized and bringing danger to the democratic, metropolitan light of Israel. The darkness of two unresolved traumas hangs over the work - the Holocaust for Jews and Al Nakba for Palestinians. The former is the murder of 6 million Jewish people in Europe during the 2nd World War. The latter, in English, means the Catastrophe: of the 1948 War with the putative state of Israel, and of dispossession and loss. How much can auto/biographical and narrative processes create small ecologies of light, hope and justice? The answer is not easy, but the effort worthwhile, if the alternative is continuing cycles of hatred and violence. |
Keywords | Trauma, violence, auto/biography, narrative, dialogue, learning, healing and peace. |
Page range | 121-139 |
Year | 2021 |
Book title | Discourses, Dialogue and Diversity in Biographical Research: An Ecology of Life and Learning |
Publisher | Brill Academic Publishers |
Output status | Published |
Place of publication | Leiden |
Edition | 10 |
ISBN | 978-90-04-46591-6 |
978-90-04-46590-9 | |
978-90-04-46589-3 | |
Publication dates | |
Online | 31 May 2021 |
03 Jun 2021 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Aug 2021 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004465916_009 |
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