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Imad Jaraisy; Ayman Agbaria – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2024
This article examines the involvement of political parties in education, focusing on these parties' youth movements. Specifically, the article examines the youth movement of The Young Communist League of Israel (Banki) and analyzes its educational goals and strategies in the context of the Arab Palestinian minority in Israel. In doing so, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Politics of Education, Government Role
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Bialik, Gadi; Kalfri, Adv. Yael; Livneh, Idit – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2013
The theoretical grounds underlying this paper are the variety of governance perspectives, which represent different political and economic ideologies (Green, 2005; Manzer, 2003). The coexistence of these often clashing attitudes is one of the reasons for policy ambiguity and policy implementation gaps (Malen, 2006). It can also expose disputing…
Descriptors: Governance, Social Justice, School Districts, Educational Policy
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Connolly, Michael; James, Chris – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2011
Debates about governance, across the public sector, including education, continue to generate a substantial literature. The intention of this article is to engage with these debates by reviewing the articles in this special edition. In this review article, we first consider the wider context of the articles by revisiting some of the central…
Descriptors: Governance, Public Sector, Public Education, State Government
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Pinson, Halleli; Levy, Gal; Soker, Zeev – Educational Review, 2010
The main question that is discussed in this paper is the way in which the Ministry of Education in Israel dealt with the changes in the political reality, and the shift from violent relations towards the possibility of peace agreements between Israel and its neighbours and the Palestinians. Drawing on the analysis of official documents--Director…
Descriptors: Peace, Foreign Countries, Jews, Arabs
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Khazzoom, Aziza – Social Forces, 2005
Israel's "development towns" are known to be comparable to U.S. inner cities in all but one respect: while most agree that Blacks are over-represented in the inner cities because of discrimination, there is still disagreement over how Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) came to be over-represented in the towns relative to European Jews…
Descriptors: Jews, Minority Groups, Immigrants, Ethnic Groups
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Gaziel, Haim H.; Taub, David – Educational Policy, 1992
Examines the impact of teacher unions in two centralized educational systems--France and Israel--on school reforms. Document analysis and interview data suggest that, since 1970, teacher unions in both countries have been demanding and receiving more say in educational policy reforms. Despite similarities in tactics, French unions are more…
Descriptors: Centralization, Educational Change, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education
Leidman, Mary Beth – 1994
In 1992, a communications researcher had the opportunity to spend seven months as a visiting professor at the University of Haifa in Israel. From the standpoint of an observer of media coverage, the timing and location of her stay was fortuitous. Israelis were conducting an election off schedule, and at the same time the United States was…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Broadcast Journalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries