Abstract
Diala Abu-Oksa Eid, The Arab Educational System in Israel: Challenges and Changes [Arabski system szkolnictwa w Izraelu – wyzwania i zmiany]. Studia Edukacyjne nr 56, 2020, Poznań 2020, pp. 435-448. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 1233-6688. DOI: 10.14746/se.2020.56.24While the Arab minority in Israel has suffered greatly from war events and political definition of the state, its education system has experienced rapid development since the state’s establishment until today. The partial improvement in the level of education of Arab children and youth is evident in qualitative and quantitative indices, as well as in the level of infrastructure of the Arab education system. Nevertheless, socio-economic gaps between Arab and Jewish children and youth continue to exist, and it is apparent that the rate of improvement does not keep pace with the growing needs of Arab society in the field of education. In the last decade, the government has adopted a series of five-year plans for the socio-economic development of Arab minority. However, there is a significant gap between Arab education and Hebrew education in important indicators, such as financial investment per pupil, infrastructure (buildings and classrooms), educational frameworks outside the school hours, and the rate of entitlement to matriculation.At the beginning of the eighth decade of the State of Israel, the real challenge of the Arab education system in Israel is not necessarily quantitative, but qualitative. The more formal and informal educational programs in the Arab educational system will be adapted to the culture of the children and youth integrated into it, the more Arab society will be able to realize its human potential.
Highlights
The conditions of the Arab minority in Israel, and its educational system, has been neglected in the academic research, especially in the western platforms and publications of such research. This is unfortunate since the story of this minority, and its adaptation to major historic events in the Middle East in general, and inside Israel in specific, can be of major value to our understanding of minority education systems in a reality of conflict between the state and its national minority
This minority and its story, some suggest, may hold the keys to possible important lessons to be learned from the Middle Eastern national conflict, and by such to the abilities of minorities around the world to keep their social-cultural identity under severe circumstances
It will focus on important aspects that have been shaping its development and continuous change in the past decades, including issues concerning to infrastructure and budget, educational policies and informal education system of the Arab educational system in Israel
Summary
The conditions of the Arab minority in Israel, and its educational system, has been neglected in the academic research, especially in the western platforms and publications of such research This is unfortunate since the story of this minority, and its adaptation to major historic events in the Middle East in general, and inside Israel in specific, can be of major value to our understanding of minority education systems in a reality of conflict between the state and its national minority. The Arab Educational System in Israel: Challenges and Changes people in the neighboring West Bank and Gaza regions, and with the Arab nations.4 This conflict started from the moment that the state was officially defined as a Jewish state and not as a solely democratic state for all its citizens, a definition that still produces conflict over the rights of the Arab-Palestinian minority in Israel.. – 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.
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