ERIC Number: EJ1113461
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
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Education for National Identity: Arab Schools Principals and Teachers Dilemmas and Coping Strategies
Arar, Khalid; Ibrahim, Fadia
Journal of Education Policy, v31 n6 p681-693 2016
This article discusses strategies used by Arab principals and teachers in Israel to cope with dilemmas involved in education for national identity stemming from conflict between two national narratives. While the Israeli Ministry of Education expects the Arab education system to educate students according to the Jewish State's values, Palestinian Arab society expects its schools to educate its children according to Palestinian Arab national-cultural values. A qualitative research employed a semi-structured interview to elicit views on this issue from 7 principals and 14 teachers in the Arab education system in Israel. The findings indicate a conflictual reality. Interviewees expressed fear, humiliation and affront when required to obey Ministry of Education instructions in contradiction to attitudes prevalent in their society. They therefore developed coping strategies to foster students' national identity without disrupting the necessary balance; primarily the construction of a covert learning program through manipulations in the official overt learning program. This study contributes to our understanding of minority education in a reality of conflict between the state and its national minority.
Descriptors: Coping, Principals, Arabs, Nationalism, Qualitative Research, Semi Structured Interviews, Minority Groups, Educational Practices, Participant Characteristics, Educational Policy, School Policy, National Curriculum, School Activities, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Culture Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Israel; Palestine
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