[TimorLesteStudies] Goodbye conflict, hello development? Curriculum reform in Timor-Leste

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*Goodbye conflict, hello development? Curriculum reform in Timor-Leste
**International Journal of Educational Development* 
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doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.04.005 
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.04.005>

*Ritesh Shah^a 
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^a Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92601, 
Symonds St., Auckland 1150, New Zealand

Received 19 February 2010;
revised 12 March 2011;
accepted 15 April 2011.
Available online 14 May 2011.


      Abstract

Motivations to reform curriculum in post-conflict, or post-colonial 
states are often driven by the need to (re) construct a cohesive and 
publicly legitimated national identity that is starkly different to that 
which existed prior. This paper explores the context behind such action 
in the Timor-Leste (East Timor) and some challenges which policy makers 
and citizens have wrestled with in developing and implementing the 
country's first post-independence primary curriculum. The author argues 
that specific aspects of this new curriculum have effectively alienated 
and/or divided large segments of its population, despite a desire for 
the reforms to result in a more inclusive, democratic and distinctly 
"Timorese" educational system. The assertion is that the desire to 
institute change rapidly after independence has in fact hampered the 
ability of the reforms to constructively serve the political and social 
project of nation building. The paper cautions that education's role in 
promoting human development, and reducing the triggers of conflict in 
this country hang in the balance as long as this new curriculum fails to 
deliver on its aspirations.

*Keywords: *Curriculum reform; Post-conflict education; East Timor

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