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VIOLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Negotiating Historical Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
VIOLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Negotiating Historical Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
VIOLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Negotiating Historical Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone

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자료유형  
 학위논문 서양
최종처리일시  
20260202104827
ISBN  
9798293871780
DDC  
301
저자명  
LaBranche, Jillian.
서명/저자  
VIOLENCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Negotiating Historical Narratives in Rwanda and Sierra Leone
발행사항  
[Sl] : University of Minnesota, 2025
발행사항  
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
형태사항  
364 p
주기사항  
Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-03, Section: A.
주기사항  
Advisor: Savelsberg, Joachim;Baer, Alejandro.
학위논문주기  
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2025.
초록/해제  
요약In countries with recent histories of mass violence, parents and teachers face challenges when educating newer generations. They must navigate not only state narratives but also their own memories of such violence. To examine how parents and teachers educate youth about recent episodes of large-scale political violence, I draw from fifteen months of fieldwork in Rwanda and Sierra Leone. I conducted participant observation of classrooms, textual analysis of educational materials, and over 190 interviews with parents, teachers, and educational experts. Both countries experienced mass violence in the 1990s, allowing me to control for historic time while exploring the effect of varying regime contexts in the production of collective memory at both micro- and macro-levels. Specifically, I examine how macro-level narratives produced through transitional justice mechanisms (TJMs) and mediated by the state simultaneously shape and are modified by educator and parental narratives at the micro-level.In both countries under investigation, TJMs have colored historical narratives of mass violence. More specifically, I find that TJMs, such as criminal courts, truth commissions, and reconciliation policies, affect how Ministries of Education describe the violence in national curricula and textbooks. These educational materials seek to legitimize the state, often obscuring the current regime's role in violence. A core method is the thematic sequencing (as opposed to chronological sequencing) of Rwandan and Sierra Leonean curricula. Consequently, war crimes are decoupled from the genocide in Rwanda, and the war in Sierra Leone is portrayed as a rupture in an otherwise peaceful history.Teachers borrow from these narratives, particularly when framing the violence and identifying victims and perpetrators. Yet, state directives and macro-level narratives are not determinative. Institutional knowledge and personal memories of mass violence converge, shaping formal education about the recent episodes of mass violence. Thus, teachers may reinforce state narratives found in state-produced education materials and nuance or challenge these narratives. Still, parents exercise more agency than teachers, and consequently, they are more likely to subvert, modify, or expand upon state narratives. My comparison between authoritarian Rwanda and a more liberal Sierra Leone reveals the impact of political contexts on these processes of knowledge transmission.This study contributes to education and collective memory literatures, especially as they engage with post-violence chapters of history. I demonstrate that education is not simply a place of memory dissemination, but rather, it is a place where collective memory is constructed interactionally. In short, this study demonstrates interactions between structural memory (imposed from above) and communicative memory (at the level of social interaction) in the intergenerational transmission of knowledge about recent histories of mass violence. It shows how structural memory sets parameters within which communicative memory evolves. The consequences for future peaceful coexistence may be substantial.
일반주제명  
Sociology
일반주제명  
African studies
일반주제명  
Education
일반주제명  
Pedagogy
일반주제명  
Peace studies
키워드  
Educational materials
키워드  
Genocide
키워드  
Memory
키워드  
Rwanda
키워드  
Sierra Leone
키워드  
Transitional justice
기타저자  
University of Minnesota Sociology
기본자료저록  
Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-03A.
전자적 위치 및 접속  
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