Case Study 4.7.1

Case study 4.7.1

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A few years ago, I spent some time talking to Rwandan students and teachers about what happened in schools before the genocide and how the lessons of that time had affected them. Rwandans told me about the common record-keeping practice of teachers asking Hutu and Tutsi to stand up in class in order to self-identify by ethnic identity. They recounted how this exercise was sometimes paired with a lesson in which the teacher taught the physical and behavioural stereotypes of each ethnic group or with teasing the minority Tutsi. They recalled this as just one of the ways in which schools divided Rwandans rather than bringing them together. (King, 2014)

Discuss the role of education in promoting negative ethnicity in Rwanda