Ideology, policy, and practice : education for immigrants and minorities in Israel today
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman (Author)
Systems of state education are a crucial means for realizing the state's focal aspiration of guaranteeing solidarity and civil loyalty (Van Kemenade, 1985 pp. 854ff. ). The means at hand include the state's structuring and organization of schooling, determination of what education is compulsory, examinations that decide admittance to institutions of secondary and tertiary education, the design of educational aids, curricula, textbooks, didactic methods, and the general distribution of resources to schools. A further apparatus is that of teacher education and the regulations for appointment to the schools and remuneration (van Kemenade, 1985, p. 850). There are indications that the issue of equality and equity for all in education is a dilemma prevalent in systems of state education, among others, because the advancement of equity is liable to interfere with the state's main goal. It is highly likely that the failing does not derive from contingent misund- standings, but rather from systemic contradictions. With this in mind, this book suggests a broad-spectrum approach to understanding how state education gets done, so to speak, and what in the process seems to obstruct impartiality. The case that I will examine is that of the state system of education in Israel. Underlying the study is the sociological assumption that an analysis of how one state system works is likely to bear a message that can be generalized
eBook, English, 2004
1st ed. 2004 View all formats and editions
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, Massachusetts, 2004
1 online resource (452 p.)
9781402080746, 1402080743
1294168489
Introduction: Education in Israel as a Case Study
Education for Immigrants and Minorities in the World
Ideology: Theoretical Concerns and Their Implications for Education
Ideology as a National Project in Israel
Policies that Rely on Ideology
Enacting Legislation
Celebrating Accomplishments
Publicizing the Fulfillment of Ideology
Ideology Transmuted
Proclaiming Educational Goals
Implementing Policies
Disseminating Instructions
Interpreting Policies
From the Ministry to the Field
Pupils from Russia and the Former Soviet Union in the Israeli School System
Immigrant Pupils from Ethiopia: Perpetuating Difference
Palestinian Israelis and their Schooling: Multiculturalism as Maintaining Distance
Testing the System: Can it be Democratic?
Children of Temporary Immigrant Workers
Conclusions: Overt Intentions and Manifest Outcomes
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