The limitations of inter-group learning in confessional school systems: the case of Lebanon. From: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ) | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Abouchedid, Kamal; Nasser, Ramzi; Van Blommestein, Jeremy | COPYRIGHT 2002 Association of Arab-American University Graduates and Institute of Arab Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

CONCERN WITH THE NATIONAL ROLE of education in Lebanon has been a roller coaster phenomenon over the last few decades of the country's political history, rising and falling with political changes and power-sharing formulas of multi-communal coexistence. The various political power-sharing formulas--defined by informal or formal pacts, (1) and acknowledged by the country's politically influential leaders and confessional communities (2) -- have exerted consi...