Zvi Bekerman

The Promise of Integrated Multicultural and Bilingual Education (eBook, PDF)

Inclusive Palestinian-Arab and Jewish Schools in Israel

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Produktbeschreibung

The Promise of Integrated and Multicultural Bilingual Education presents the results of a long-term ethnographic study of the integrated bilingual Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel that offer a new educational option to two groups of Israelis--Palestinians and Jews--who have been in conflict for the last one hundred years. Their goal is to create egalitarian bilingual multicultural environments to facilitate the growth of youth who can acknowledge and respect "others" while maintaining loyalty to their respective cultural traditions. In this book, Bekerman reveals the complex school practices implemented while negotiating identity and culture in contexts of enduring conflict. Data gathered from interviews with teachers, students, parents, and state officials are presented and analyzed to explore the potential and limitations of peace education given the cultural resources, ethnic-religious affiliations, political beliefs, and historical narratives of the various interactants. The book concludes with critique of Western positivist paradigmatic perspectives that currently guide peace education, maintaining that one of the primary weaknesses of current bilingual and multicultural approaches to peace education is their failure to account for the primacy of the political framework of the nation state and the psychologized educational perspectives that guide their educational work. Change, it is argued, will only occur after these perspectives are abandoned, which entails critically reviewing present understandings of the individual, of identity and culture, and of the learning process.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199336524
• Artikelnr.: 48796275

Autorenporträt

Zvi Bekerman teaches anthropology of education at the School of Education and The Melton Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic, and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts. He is particularly interested in how concepts such as culture and identity intersect with issues of social justice, intercultural and peace education, and citizenship education.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1
Chapter 1: Positioning the Author
Chapter 2: Theoretical Perspectives
Chapter 3: Methodology: From Theory to Implementation
Chapter 4: Schools in Their Contexts
Part 2
Chapter 5: The Parents
Chapter 6: Teachers at Their Work
Chapter 7: The Children
Part 3
Chapter 8: School Routines: Culture, Religion, and Politics in the Classroom
Chapter 9: Ceremonial Events
Chapter 10: Conflicting National Narratives
Part 4
Chapter 11: The Graduates
Chapter 12: Conclusions