Understanding Minority Teachers' Integration and Contribution to Multilingual and Multicultural Education in an Ethno-Centric Education System

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Abstract

This research aims at exploring Arab minority teachers' induction into the Jewish education system in Israel. We utilized a qualitative research design and interviews with 20 women minority Arab teachers to unravel these minority teachers' induction challenges, compared to 10 interviews with Jewish majority teachers' perceptions. The findings shed light on the integration of women Arab teachers in the Jewish education system and disrupted the status of segregation in education, and Israeli society. Their induction in Jewish schools involves different coping challenges, encountering with school community constitutes a fertile bed for intercultural contact, both linguistic and ethnic, augmenting circles of belonging and identity formation. This research contributes to theory, policy, and praxis by reconceptualizing the induction of endogenous minorities.

Authors

• Eman Abo-Zaed Arar, Texas State University

• Michal Tannenbaum, Tel Aviv University