Oslo Accords have stringently underscored that both rivalries, the Palestinians and the Israelis, must abstain from incitement to terror and violence. Their educational systems, consequently, have to refrain from convulsive, fundamentalist, and heinous skirmishes leading to stalled reconciliation. History school textbooks are deemed, from both…

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…

In 1948, the Palestinians were targeted and manipulated to strengthen and sustain the dominant Israeli power and reproduce white Israeli values. The education system promulgated this strategy. Only 5 percent of Palestinians in Israel attend college, since they are ineligible for state financial help. (MLH)

This paper examines the emergence of privatization in Israel's educational system. The first part provides an overview of the provision of educational services in a welfare state. The second part describes educational privatization in a welfare state, and the third part presents examples of two forms of privatization that have emerged in the…

Unlike many Third World nation minorities living in Western societies, the Palestinians in Israel did not immigrate to the new system; rather, the system was imposed on them by the Israeli Jewish government. This paper argues that the Israeli government uses its hegemony over the educational system for its Palestinian citizens to manipulate and…

Explores the situation of the Israeli-Jewish education system in Israel that has developed educational streams according to religious differences. Highlights the changes in the status of cultural stands of secular and religious Jewish groups throughout the twentieth century. Includes references. (CMK)

Reviews policy and ideological trends within three Israeli institutions which provide services to disadvantaged youth: Youth Aliyah, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, and the Ministry of Education and Culture. Presents recommendations for policy initiatives for research and evaluation, differential diagnosis and program assignment, and…

Examines the historical processes which led to the institutionalization of residential care for children in Israel. The utopian "children's villages" of the 1920's were eventually taken over by a process of mass institutionalization and bureaucratic inflexibility, but the ideological commitment to collective group care has remained…

This paper examines issues of equality, discrimination, affirmative action, and preferential treatment in Israel. An introduction provides a broad outline of topics addressed in the paper: the status of the Jewish sector, with treatment of Jewish immigrants to serve as an example of affirmative action; the policies of the state in relation to the…

Participants who attended three national alternative education conferences in Japan, Indiana, and Israel report on their experiences at the conferences and issues addressed, including freedom versus license, responsibility to poor children, funding for alternative education programs, democratic education, government role, and varying and…

Analyzes the School Autonomy Project in Israel (1988-92) in the light of the theoretical literature on school-university partnership, as an example of academe/practitioner exchange. This project was a major innovation in a country with a highly centralized educational system. Such partnerships must include the highest field level (supervisors and…

The history of progressive education in Eretz-Israel (Palestine) from 1915-39 is intended as a model of a new pedagogical theory adopted by a changing society. Topics discussed include the Jewish community in Eretz-Israel, pedagogical experiments, progressive education as a pedagogical movement, the relationship between school and society, the…