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Nangyalai Attal; Bjorn Harald Nordtveit – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2024
This paper uses critical discourse analysis and critical literacy to analyze the first in a series of literacy primers developed with US support for children in Afghanistan in the 1980s, called 'Jihad literacy'. The text is analyzed for its ideological content as related to the themes of religion, violence, and martyrdom in the historical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Literacy Education, Textbook Publication
Cornebise, Alfred E. – 1997
At the end of World War I, a system of education was created for the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) who remained in Europe. This book documents the history of the ventures, organized by the Young Mens Christian Association and the army, that provided educational opportunities for two million men awaiting return to home.…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education