The Mediterranean has once again come into its own in global geo-politics, attracting international interest that goes well beyond the typical stereotypes propagated by the tourist industry. Popular movements clamouring for democracy, conflict zones that have a spill-over effect well beyond the region, efforts to engage with globalisation on its own terms—one and all play out in various sectors of society, education included.

Educational Scholarship across the Mediterranean: A Celebratory Retrospective brings together in one volume a selection of the best articles that have appeared in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, whose first issue was published in 1996. Each chapter highlights challenges faced by education systems across the region, seen from the perspective of leading scholars who draw on original empirical data, a broad spectrum of theoretical frameworks, and personal experience to reflect on education-related topics. Among these we find critical considerations of the role of the economy, demography, gender, social stratification, religion, politics, culture and language in shaping educational systems and practices.

Much has been achieved in the countries bordering on the Mediterranean over the past 25 years—and yet, a consideration of the continuities as much as of the ruptures is instructive, showing how education remains both a transformative and reproductive force in communities.

Table of Contents:
Preface: Back to the Future and the Politics of Hope List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors PART 1: Regional Focus 1 Socialisation, Learning and Basic Education in Koranic Schools  Abdel-Jalil Akkari 2 Is There a Semiperipheral Type of Schooling? State, Social Movements and Education in Spain, 1970–1994  Xavier Bonal and Xavier Rambla 3 Toward an Innovative University in the South? Institutionalising Euro-Mediterranean Co-operation in Research, Technology and Higher Education  Jorma Kuitunen 4 The Permanence of Distinctiveness: Performances and Changing Schooling Governance in the Southern European Welfare States  Paolo Landri 5 Gramsci, the Southern Question and the Mediterranean  Peter Mayo 6 Dis/Integrated Orders and the Politics of Recognition: Civil Upheavals, Militarism, and Educators’ Lives and Work  André Elias Mazawi 7 The North African Educational Challenge: From Colonisation to the Current Alleged Islamist Threat  Pierre Vermeren PART 2: Country Focus 8 The Circulation of European Educational Theories and Practices: The Algerian Experience  Mohamed Miliani 9 State, Society, and Higher Education in Cyprus: A Study in Conflict and Compromise  Anthony A. Koyzis 10 Global Discourses and Educational Reform in Egypt: The Case of Active-Learning Pedagogies  Mark B. Ginsburg and Nagwa M. Megahed 11 Values in Teaching and Teaching Values: A Review of Theory and Research, Including the Case of Greece  Evangelia Frydaki 12 Peace Education in Israel: Encounter and Dialogue  Dov Darom 13 The Birth of ‘Citizenship and Constitution’ in Italian Schools: A New Wall of Competences or Transition to Intercultural Education?  Sandra Chistolini 14 Private and Privatised Higher Educational Institutions in Jordan  Muhammad Raji Zughoul 15 The Implications of Lebanese Cultural Complexities for Education  Linda Akl 16 The Maltese Bilingual Classroom: A Microcosm of Local Society  Antoinette Camilleri Grima 17 Multiculturalism, Citizenship, and Education in Morocco  Moha Ennaji 18 Conflict and Democracy Education in Palestine  Maher Z. Hashweh 19 Navigating Religious Boundaries at School: From Legitimate to Specious Religious Questions  Maria Esther Fernández Mostaza, Gloria García-Romeral and Clara Fons I Duocastella 20 Human Rights Education: A Comparison of Mother Tongue Textbooks in Turkey and France  Canan Aslan and Yasemin Karaman-Kepenekci