@article{ref1,
title="Educating for leadership in a divided country: educational practices for a new Nigeria",
journal="Educational research and reviews",
year="2013",
author="Aydin, Hasan",
volume="8",
number="19",
pages="1827-1841",
abstract="This study reports on a 2011 qualitative field study conducted at the Nigerian Turkish International  Colleges (NTICs) in Abuja, Nigeria. The study uses both in-depth interviews and small focus groups to  elicit the lived experience of six identified groups of stakeholders (administrators, teachers, students,  parents, Nigerian leaders, and funders), and observations meant to explore the schools' role in  promoting openness, mutual understanding, habits of discourse vital to democracy in a society that is  deeply divided along religious, ethnic, and geographical lines. This article explains the value of school  programs, such as the NTIC schools, in developing nations like Nigeria, and their role in promoting  tolerance, unity, economic prosperity, and stability. This article also considers how these schools  attempt to encourage the establishment of a civil society based upon democratic principles of  governance while focused on multicultural values as dealing with the educational system of an African nation.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1990-3839",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}