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Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School A Case Study of Jewish-Arab Students
Nationality and Ethnicity in an Israeli School: A Case Study of Jewish-Arab Students explores the intersection of ethnicity, nationality, and social structure which is experienced through schooling and its effects on the performance of disadvantaged students.
The book sheds light on the ramifications of the multilayered ethnic-class identities and explores the role of nationality in the reproduction of a depoliticized ethnic hierarchy in school and society. It offers an ethnographic case study of one Israeli high school that adopted critical pedagogy in order to empower underprivileged students that belonged to second and third generation of immigrant Jews from Arab countries. It also analyses the ways in which educational gaps are reproduced through the dominant national culture and identity and discusses the educational consequences of multiethnic school settings.
The book will appeal to students, researchers and academics in the fields of sociology of education, education policy, peace education, Israeli studies, and critical pedagogy studies.
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Analytical fields
Chapter 3. The field – the Kedma school
Chapter 4. Methodology
Chapter 5. The matriculation exams
Chapter 6. The students
Chapter 7. Art education
Chapter 8. The annual school trip
Chapter 9. The national Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers
Chapter 10. The IDF recruiting program
Chapter 11. Education for civic engagement
Chapter 12. Concluding remarks
References
Biography
Dalya Yafa Markovich is a senior lecturer of Education and Sociology in Beit Berl College, Israel.
"There is no substitute for a rigorous and thorough qualitative research, if one wishes to gain deep and nuanced understanding of school cultural ethos in contemporary heterogeneous societies, aiming at forging core curriculum. Markovich's book grapples with this task most impressively. Viewing the school as one of the major sites in which national identities are iterated and reiterated, inculcated and contested, in nationally, racially, ethnically and culturally diverse societies, her book is sure to become a significant contribution not only to the study of the Israeli education system but also to the study of education systems worldwide featuring similar background conditions."
Prof. Yossi Yonah, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.