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Within the National Confines: Israeli History Education and the Multicultural Challenge
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Weintraub, Roy; Tal, Nimrod – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2023
This article examines the key category defining multiculturalism in Israeli history education: the representation of North African and Middle Eastern Jewry, aka "Mizrahim." Applying Nordgren's and Johansson's conceptualisation, the article explores the changes in this subject from the establishment of Israel to the present day. The…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Course Content, Ethnocentrism, Jews
Multicultural Education vs. Implicit and Explicit Ethnocentric Education: Text Analysis of a Contemporary Israeli Value Education Program
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Reingold, Roni; Zamir, Sara – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2017
In the year 2000, Israel purportedly adopted a multicultural educational policy. It replaced the covert assimilation policy, which was referred to as "the integration policy." The aim of the present study was to analyse the contemporary Israeli program of value education. Using the method of content analysis, the present study sought to…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational Policy, Policy Analysis, Foreign Countries
The "Right" Education in Israel: Segregation, Religious Ethnonationalism, and Depoliticized Professionalism
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Agbaria, Ayman K. – Critical Studies in Education, 2018
This paper underlines three foundations upon which the current condition of the Israeli education system is predicated. These are: (a) the separation between Palestinians and Jews in the Israeli education system and isolating both from any significant contact; (b) endorsing a strong ethno-religious ethos and narratives that widen the chasm between…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Jews, Arabs, Foreign Countries
Decolonial Human Rights Education: Changing the Terms and Content of Conversations on Human Rights
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Becker, Anne – Human Rights Education Review, 2021
The aim of this paper is to search for possibilities to change the terms and content of conversations on colonial/decolonial human rights education. The content of conversations consists of what we know about human rights. The terms of conversations are the principles, assumptions, and rules of knowing in human rights education. The terms and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Course Content, Teaching Methods, Ethnocentrism
How Qualitative Research Changed Me: A Narrative of Personal Growth
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Feuer, Avital – Qualitative Report, 2007
This piece recounts personal changes I underwent while collecting data for my dissertation. Stemming from my own personal experiences of anomie and feelings of not belonging to the languages and cultures of either Canada or Israel, this inquiry examined the collusion of my attitudes with the attitudes of advanced Hebrew learners of diverse…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Qualitative Research, Foreign Countries, Doctoral Dissertations
The Effects of Prevalent Social Stereotypes on Intergroup Attribution.
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Ben-Ari, Rachel; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1994
Tested three alternative hypotheses regarding intergroup attribution patterns derived from the ethnocentric, the asymmetrical, and the stereotype-based models of intergroup attribution. Results from 582 junior high students in Israel show that members of majority and minority groups made internal attributions for stereotype-consistent positive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Ethnic Groups, Ethnocentrism