After author and activist, #MikoPeled, hosted the two part webinar series, “What do they teach our children? Israel’s Intervention in American Social Studies Curriculum”, we received a huge amount of
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interest and follow-up on the subject of intervention and influence that #Zionist and pro-Israel interest groups have on our institutions of primary and secondary #education. Investigating this phenomenon beyond just the US and into #Palestinian and Israeli classrooms, Miko Peled has expanded this webinar series in order to examine the direction and substance of school curriculum we find in the modern Israeli and Palestinian K-12 environment, while contrasting them with what we know about the lopsided US curriculum, as it pertains to the topics of #Palestine, Israel, and how each is framed.
This event was held via Zoom on Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Guest Panel:
- Dr. Ilham Nasser, Ph.D., Former Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Education in Palestine, Senior Researcher @ Advancing Education in Muslim Societies Initiative, International Institute of Islamic Thought
- Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk University, Professor of History, and Director of the Joseph Jenkins Roberts Center for African Diaspora Studies
- Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan, Professor of Language and Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Sakharov Prize Laureate for Human Rights awarded by the European Parliament, Co-initiator with Palestinian Ambassadrice in the EU of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
- Miko Peled (Host), Author, Writer, & Human Rights Activist for Palestinian Justice & Freedom
Webinar archive at https://mikopeled.com/webinar-archive/