Education, Empowerment, and Control(English, Hardcover, Al-Haj Majid)

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Education, Empowerment, and Control(English, Hardcover, Al-Haj Majid) is written by Al-Haj Majid and published by State University of New York Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0791422011 (ISBN 10) and 9780791422014 (ISBN 13).

Education, Empowerment, and Control is about the education of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Using a comparative approach, the study throughout juxtaposes Arab and Hebrew educational systems in terms of administration, resources, curricula contents, and returns. Developments in education are analyzed in conjunction with wide demographic, economic, and sociopolitical changes. Al-Haj explores the expectations of the Palestinian community on the one hand and dominant groups on the other, showing that whereas Palestinians have seen education as a source of empowerment, government groups have seen it as a mechanism of social control. The book also sheds light on the wider issue of education and social change among developing minorities in the postcolonial era. Al-Haj examines modernization, underdevelopment, and control in order to delineate the role education plays among a national minority that is marginalized at the group level and denied access to the national opportunity structure.