| Arabic Instruction in Israel: Lessons in Conflict, Cognition and Failure Contributor(s): Uhlmann, Allon (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004323813 ISBN-13: 9789004323810 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General |
| Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an |
| Physical Information: 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Arabic Instruction in Israel Allon J. Uhlmann confronts two conundrums, namely the persistently poor level of Arabic proficiency among Jewish Arabic students and teachers, and the traumatic alienation of Arab students by university Arabic grammar instruction. These are not aberrations but rather direct, albeit unintended, systemic consequences of the field of Arabic instruction, where Jewish students encounter Arabic as a dead, hostile language; Jewish hegemony devalues native Arabic proficiency; and Arab students are locked into a fractured educational trajectory - encountering two alienating and mutually unintelligible grammars of Arabic at school and at university. By tracing systemic variabilities in cognition and learning Uhlmann exposes hitherto misrecognised dynamics that hinder Arabic instruction in Israel, thereby offering new avenues for possible change. |