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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821921703321

Autore

Swirski Shlomo

Titolo

Politics and education in Israel / / Shlomo Swirski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Falmer Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-135-58241-6

1-135-58242-4

1-280-31702-7

0-203-90672-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Collana

Studies in Education/Politics

Disciplina

379.5694

Soggetti

Education - Political aspects - Israel

Discrimination in education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editor's Introduction; Acknowledgments; The United States and Israel: Nations of Immigrants?; Three Communities on the Periphery of European Capitalism; The Encounter of 1948 and the Israeli State; Israelization: The Schools and the Israeli Defense Forces; Economic Development and Class Formation; The Labor Market and the Rise of a Three-Tracked Welfare State; From Separate Schools to Hierarchical Tracks: The Israeli School System, 1948  1968; Israel Becomes a Regional Military-Industrial Power; The Rise of an Educational New Right

Towards a Higher IntegrationReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Politics and Education in Israel focuses on the meeting of European Zionists, Non-Zionist Middle Eastern Jews, and Palestinian Arabs in the Israeli school system, the introduction of ability groupings into Israeli schools, the privatization of education and the expansion of elitist schools.