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- Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Israeli Studies
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Front Matter
- Title Page
- p. 5
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xvii-xviii
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-4
- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- pp. 5-14
- Content
- Institutions and Pupils
- pp. 79-102
- Physical and Educational Facilities
- pp. 103-118
- Policy, Goals, and Curricula
- pp. 119-142
- Teachers and Social Control
- pp. 153-190
- Higher Education
- pp. 191-214
- Back Matter
- CONCLUSION
- pp. 215-224
- REFERENCES
- pp. 225-242
- Back Cover
- pp. 252-261
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791494455
MARC Record
OCLC
42854504
Pages
249
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No