How Are We Educated?

Textbooks, their language, accessibility, the overt and coverts messages they convey regarding identities and anxieties, the contributions of critical pedagogy to the concent and context of human rights educations and its close connections to peace educations… are some of the themes covered by the papers presented in the Intenational Symposium on Human Rigths Education and Textbook Research (April 17 – 19, 2004 – Istanbul) and collected in this volume. The meeting, which brought tgether internationally prominenet workers in the field, also provided a forum for the critical assessment of the research conducted in the coure of the Project on Human Right in Textbooks.