Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel (S U N Y Series in Israeli Studies) - Couverture souple

Al-Haj, Majid

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 079142202X ISBN 13 : 9780791422021

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1995

Synopsis

Book by AlHaj Majid

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Education, Empowerment, and Control is about the education of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Using a comparative approach, the study throughout juxtaposes Arab and Hebrew educational systems in terms of administration, resources, curricula contents, and returns. Developments in education are analyzed in conjunction with wide demographic, economic, and sociopolitical changes.

Al-Haj explores the expectations of the Palestinian community on the one hand and dominant groups on the other, showing that whereas Palestinians have seen education as a source of empowerment, government groups have seen it as a mechanism of social control. The book also sheds light on the wider issue of education and social change among developing minorities in the postcolonial era. Al-Haj examines modernization, underdevelopment, and control in order to delineate the role education plays among a national minority that is marginalized at the group level and denied access to the national opportunity structure.

Biographie de l'auteur

Majid Al-Haj is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology and Head of the Center for Educational Research at the University of Haifa. He is the author of Social Change and Family Processes and co-author of Arab Local Government in Israel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• ISBN 10: 079142202X
• ISBN 13: 9780791422021
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 278