Higher Education in Divided Societies: Between Ethnic Segregation and Citizenship Integration in Kosovo
Journal Title: Yükseköğretim ve Bilim Dergisi - Year 2019, Vol 9, Issue 1
Abstract
In the post-conflict societies, education can be a crucial component of political transformation, contributing to peace and reconciliation between former adversaries. However, education continues to be at the centre of ongoing disputes between Kosovo and Serbia, resulting in ethnically parallel education systems. Based on the case of Kosovo, this research examines how ethnic mobilisation and political dynamics are reflected in the Universities, and what can be done to establish integrated higher education. The article follows theory guided process tracing based on a case study and content analysis of relevant reports and legal acts by comparing parallel running universities of two major ethnic communities. The central claim is that dissolving of the parallel university and developing of unitary higher education system improves long-term ethnic relations. Further, it discusses citizenship education as an incentive in integrated higher education that promotes peace in post-conflict societies.
Authors and Affiliations
Bekim BALIQI
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP554349
- DOI 10.5961/jhes.2019.312
- Views 123
- Downloads 0
We Have to Re-structure Our Higher Education System in Parallel with the Developments in the Labor Market
Higher education system has vital importance to train qualified workforce that a country needs. Although holding young population turns out to be an advantage in a well structured education system, overgrowth of young po...
Student Cynicism: A Study of Adaptation, Validity and Reliability of Cynical Attitudes toward College Scale
The aim of this study is to carry out the validity and reliability study, and the adaptation of the “Cynical Attitudes towards Collage Scale” to Turkish developed by Brockway, Carlson, Jones and Bryant (2002). Study grou...
Relationship between Turkish Graduate Students' Research Anxiety and Uneasiness Levels in Information Literacy
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the graduate students' research anxiety and their levels of uneasiness in information literacy. In accordance with this aim, the study was designed through...
Türkiye'de Temel Bilimlerde Sarsılış: Ülkenin Sarsılışı
Bu çalışmada öncelikle Türkiye'deki biyoloji, fizik, kimya, matematik ve moleküler biyoloji ve genetik bölümlerinin 2007 yılından günümüze gösterdikleri niceliksel gelişmeler gösterilmeye çalışılmıştır. Bu amaçla her bir...
Women Academics in Turkey in 2000s: Role Conflict or Role Expansion?
This study aims to understand if women academics in Turkey experience their double shift as a role conflict or role expansion. Previous studies on women academics in Turkey generally found that most of them experience th...