National Identity Formation, Religion, and World Society in Social Studies Textbooks: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Turkey

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Abstract: In this qualitative content analysis, I examine how lower-secondary social studies textbooks from Pakistan and Turkey construct national identity through discussions of conflict, historical narratives, religion, ethnicity, and language, among other factors. Drawing from Benedict Anderson’s idea of the nation as an imagined community, as well as the diffusion of global norms and ideas throughout world society. I analyze the nationalist and global influences present in Pakistani and Turkish textbooks. I find that textbooks from both countries combine world-cultural, liberal ideas and norms such as diversity and minority rights with more nationalistic, militaristic, and ‘exceptionalist’ ideas about national identity. However, which global norms are emphasized, and to what extent, in textbooks from each country differs markedly, as does the portrayal of the relationship between nation, state, and identity.

Author	Tandogan, Vehbi Emre

Subject	Textbooks
Subject	Nationalism
Subject	Social studies
Subject	National identity
Subject	History
Subject	World society
Subject	Globalization
Subject	Pakistan
Subject	Turkey
Subject	Stanford Graduate School of Education International Comparative Education
Genre	Text

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Preferred citation: Tandogan, V. (2021). National Identity Formation, Religion, and World Society in Social Studies Textbooks: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Turkey. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at http://purl.stanford.edu/qr881qb5633

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