| Education, Empowerment, and Control: The Case of the Arabs in Israel Contributor(s): Al-Haj, Majid (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791422011 ISBN-13: 9780791422014 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History |
| Dewey: 370.956 |
| LCCN: 93-48104 |
| Series: Suny Series in Israeli Studies (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.33" W x 9.04" (1.18 lbs) 249 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
