Textbooks, their language, accessibility, the overt and coverts messages they convey regarding identities and anxieties, the contributions of critical pedagogy to the concent and context of human rights educations and its close connections to peace educations... are some of the themes covered by the papers presented in the Intenational Symposium on Human Rigths Education and Textbook Research (April 17 - 19, 2004 - Istanbul) and collected in this volume. The meeting, which brought tgether internationally prominenet workers in the field, also provided a forum for the critical assessment of the research conducted in the coure of the Project on Human Right in Textbooks.

"I have seldom participated in a more constructive meeting on crucial issues of education. I bileve this is due to the significance and quality of your study which represents both excellent scholarship in the research, as well as, clear and responsible interpretaiton of the finding. I am sure that others in the field will welcome this study as I do as an inportant contrbution to the wider field of edcation for global citizenship and a culture of peace.

Bett A. Reardon, Ed, D., Funding Director
Peace Education Center
Teachers College, Columbia University of New York