Education in Conflict

Contents

Introduction

1. The Netherlands and conflict

2. Space for conflict

3. Structure of the book

Conflict Matters ‘ The Making of’ a Difference

1. Introduction

2. Education in the Netherlands: different

3. Education as a gateway

4. Human solidarity in the classroom

5. ‘The making of’ a difference

6. Conflict matters

7. A closer look at ‘I’ and ‘the other’

8. Back to the classroom: thinking about human solidarity

9. Human solidarity – warmly recommended

10. Equal in difference?

11. Teachers, pivotal in ‘the making of’ a difference

The Canon and the Sparrow. Critical Perspectives on the 2005 Amendment of the Dutch Educational Law about Citizenship and Social Integration

1. Introduction

2. What binds us?

3. Dutch pluralism

4. The cohesion and the adhesion alternative

5. Active citizenship and social integration: questioning the 2005 amendment

6. The cohesion alternative and the danger of tautology

7. The cohesion alternative and the risk of moralising

8. Concluding remarks

The Dutch Pastorate. Pluralism Without Pain?

1. Introduction

2. Dutch accommodationism on trial

3. Pastoral power and the Dutch economy of soul- making

4. The Dutch secularists

6. Accommodationism

7. Agonist democracy

Stiletto Heels and the Wooden Floor. An Analysis of the Mechanisms Behind a Break Between Two Churches in One Church Building

1. Introduction

2. First perspective: migrant churches in the Netherlands; a Dutch case

3. Second perspective: the concept of ‘the Gift’

4. Third perspective: What do African voices say about Western Europe?

5. A fundamental question: Is Christian theology a question of gift and reception?

6. Final conclusion

The Princess and the Mushroom. Globalisation, Existential Insecurity and the Search for a National Identity

1. Introduction

2. Retention of national identity

3. Methodological nationalism

4. Existential security

5. Co-authorship

6. Room for diversity

7. Conclusions

Epilogue: To be or not to be educated in conflict