Conceived through collaboration by activist academics from Israel and Northern Ireland, this book draws from experience to offer practical and theoretical insights and programs for promoting activist pedagogy for shared learning and shared life in divided societies.

List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Dafna Yitzhaki, Tony Gallagher, Nimrod Aloni and Zehavit Gross PART 1: Educating for a Democratic-Multicultural Citizenship 1 Empowering Agency in the Ethical, Political, and the Teaching/Learning Spheres of Education: An Integrative Model of Activist Pedagogy  Nimrod Aloni 2 Teaching Controversial Issues as Part of Education for Democratic Intercultural Citizenship  Wiel Veugelers and Jaap Schuitema 3 Towards Educating Teachers as Advocators: A Conceptual Discussion and a Historical Example  Jaime Grinberg 4 Democratic Citizenship Education as an Activist Pedagogy: Towards the Cultivation of Democratic Justice on the African Continent  Yusef Waghid 5 Educating for Democratic Citizenship: Arabic in Israeli Higher Education as a Case in Point  Smadar Donitsa-Schmidt, Muhammad Amara and Abd Al-Rahman Mar’i PART 2: Enhancing Models of Shared Learning 6 Turning Research into Policy: The Experience of Shared Education in Northern Ireland  Tony Gallagher, Gavin Duffy and Gareth Robinson 7 “Moving into Hebrew Is Natural”: Jewish and Arab Teachers in a Shared Education Project  Dafna Yitzhaki 8 Shared Learning in the Context of Conflict  Shany Payes and Shula Mola 9 Jewish-Arab Bilingual Education in Israel  Assaf Meshulam 10 Minority EFL Teachers on Shared-Life Education in Conflict-Ridden Contexts: The Subaltern Speaks Back  Muzna Awayed-Bishara PART 3: Nurturing Intercultural Competencies 11 Contestation as an Innovative Construct for Conflict Management and Activist Pedagogy  Zehavit Gross 12 “Thou Shalt Not Be a Bystander”: Holocaust and Genocide Education with a Gendered, Universal Lens, as a Path to Empathy and Courage  Lori Weintrob 13 Internationalization for Nurturing Intercultural Communicative Competencies in Pre-Service Teachers  Beverley Topaz and Tina Waldman 14 Developing Culturally Proficient Global Peace Education Changemaker Educators for Culturally Diverse Schools and Classrooms  Reyes L. Quezada PART 4: Reconciling Dialogue in the Face of Conflicting Narratives 15 The Holocaust and Its Teaching in Israel in View of the Conflict: General and Pedagogical Implications and Lessons  Daniel Bar-Tal and Galiya Bar-Tal 16 Teaching History and Citizenship in Schools in Northern Ireland  Gavin Duffy, Tony Gallagher and Gareth Robinson 17 Successful Failure: A Dual Narrative Approach to History Education: An Israeli Palestinian Project  Eyal Naveh 18 The Narrative Approach to Shared Education: Insights from Jerusalem  Myriam Darmoni-Charbit and Noa Shapira 19 Imagined Communities: Staging Shared Society in Israel  Lee Perlman and Sinai Peter 20 Arts as a Sphere for the Study of History  Philipp Schmidt-Rhaesa, Jürgen Scheffler and Lilach Naishtat-Bornstein