ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on a nine-year study that one carried out as ethnographer in this extraordinary village and it is about hope in the midst of deadly conflict. Mahatma Gandhi's words are with Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam every day and are discussed in the village schools; both the elementary school where Jewish and Arab children study together in the same classrooms with both Jewish and Arab teachers leading the classes. The chapter provides a reflective analysis of the interviews carried out with the teachers and students in the elementary school in the village. It explores those interactions among the students, teachers and parents, emanating from their sense of shared purpose which reflects their assumptions about the nature of education in their village and about the type of society they wish to promote through education. The chapter intends to explores the social and psychological complexities of moral development through the specific educational experience.
