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Education and Citizen Formation in Central America

Sat, May 28, 4:15 to 5:45pm, TBA

Session Submission Type: Panel

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How does education contribute to citizenship formation? How is violence remembered and taught to schoolchildren, indigenous communities, and college students in Central America? And what models of education are the most sustainable for promoting cultures of peace in the region? This panel brings together papers from political science, history, and education exploring these questions through case studies in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua.
For some communities, formal sector education has been able to capture aspects of their experiences of violence through textbooks and other teaching materials. For others, memories of physical, socio-emotional, or economic violence have not been adequately represented in school settings. When the formal sector is unable to tackle the task of post-conflict education, civil society spaces have instead been charged with teaching the past to promote knowledge integral to forming schoolchildren as citizens engaged in the present while understanding the origins of problems they encounter. This panel is an opportunity to engage with the promises and limitations of education in post-conflict Central America.

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