Confronting Barriers to the Participation of Bedouin-Arab Women in Israeli Higher Education

Abu-Saad, Ismael; Horowitz, Tamar; Abu-Saad, Kathleen

doi:10.20533/licej.2040.2589.2017.0365

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“…Fathers are the head of the family, and women, although educated, are expected to defer to husbands and fathers and to remain socially confined to the familial/tribal circles ( 52 , 53 ). As a minority within a minority, the Bedouins have the lowest education level, below-average income per family, and the highest unemployment rates ( 54 ). Approximately half of the Bedouin community in the Negev lives in unrecognized settlements, most not connected to water or electricity and situated far from the main roads.…”

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An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the COVID-19

Cohen

Slobodin

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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A growing body of literature suggests that students from underserved backgrounds are more vulnerable to the adverse economic, emotional, and academic effects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. While this vulnerability was attributed to multiple structural and socio-cultural barriers, little attention has been paid to the role of psychological resources in preserving wellbeing in times of crisis and change. Guided by the Self-Determination Theory (SDT), the current study examined the role of the authentic inner compass (AIC) and need-satisfaction in predicting the wellbeing of Bedouin students attending teachers' higher education institutes in the south of Israel during the COVID-19. Participants were 84 Bedouin teaching students (84.1% female) who completed online questionnaires addressing the sense of AIC, need-based experiences, psychological distress, and positive affect. Consistent with the propositions of the SDT, we found that a strong and clear sense of AIC, as well as high need satisfaction and low need frustration, were associated with lower distress and higher positive effect in Bedouin teaching students. We have also found that need satisfaction moderated the effect of the AIC on students' wellbeing so that AIC better predicted lower distress and higher positive effect when students' levels of need satisfaction were higher. Our findings lend further support to the importance of the AIC and need satisfaction to optimal functioning even in collectivist cultural contexts that do not prioritize values of autonomy. The current study provides insight into the interplay between AIC and need-based experience by describing the conditions under which AIC may be beneficial for wellbeing in times of crisis.

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An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the COVID-19

Cohen

Slobodin

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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“…The second half of the twentieth century can be described more as urbanization and orchestrated move of some of the Bedouins into urban towns planned by the Israeli government. Among other phenomena, changes in patterns of employment, gender, and lifestyles have been defined as objects of study (Abu Rabia, 2012; Abu Saad, Horowitz, & Abu-Saad, 2007).…”

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A Nomadic State of Mind: Mental Maps of Bedouins in the Negev and Sinai During the Time of the Ottomans, the British Mandate, and the State of Israel

Galilee

2019

Contemporary Review of the Middle East

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This article is based on over a decade of field research among Bedouin tribes of the Negev as well as historical and geographical research. Its central argument is that the main social, cultural, and geographical processes within the Negev Bedouin groups are impacted by three major forces: nomadism and the social structure; formal Islam; and the rise of the modern state. This argument is illustrated by the geographical concept of “mental maps”, and its various manifestations in Bedouin society. The article focuses on the historical developments of the twentieth century, which took place alongside the rise of the Zionist movement and the establishment of the State of Israel.

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“…In some respects, Bedouin society follows tradition rather than Islam, especially in relation to women (Abu-Rabia-Queder, 2008). For example, Islam allows a Muslim to marry any other Muslim, but tradition allows a Bedouin woman to marry only a Bedouin man (Abu-Saad et al, 2011).…”

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The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

Alhuzail

2022

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Since Israel’s establishment in 1948, its Bedouin population has undergone many changes—from a traditional society to a modern one and from a nomadic life to permanent settlement—that have greatly affected the marital relationship. This is a qualitative study, using a narrative paradigm, of perceptions of the marital relationship in three generations of women in10 Bedouin families. An interpretive analysis of their life story interviews revealed differences and some similarities between one generation and the next. The first-generation women spoke in general about the woman’s role in the relationship and the man’s role, which was to defend, protect, and support the woman. In the two later generations, the women took upon themselves the overall responsibility for the marriage’s success. In the second generation, the marriage relied primarily on the behavior of the woman, whose role was to nurture the relationship and her husband’s reputation. The third generation saw the relationship as an escape from their suffocating birth family, a warm environment in which to rear children, and a way of meeting many emotional and physical needs. Although their expectations were often not realized, this generation, too, strove to preserve the relationship. None of the interviewees mentioned polygyny, although it is widespread among Israel’s Bedouins. And despite the intergenerational differences, there were some constants: “Women’s wisdom,” the key factor appearing in each generation, enabled Bedouin women to adapt to their marital lives and to preserve Bedouin culture.

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Confronting Barriers to the Participation of Bedouin-Arab Women in Israeli Higher Education

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the COVID-19

An Authentic Inner Compass and Need Satisfaction as Wellbeing Resources in Bedouin Teaching Students During the COVID-19

A Nomadic State of Mind: Mental Maps of Bedouins in the Negev and Sinai During the Time of the Ottomans, the British Mandate, and the State of Israel

The Meaning of the Marital Relationship in the Lives of Three Generations of Bedouin Women

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