“Passing Through” a Western-Democratic Teacher Education: The Case of Israeli Arab Teachers

Eilam, Billie

doi:10.1111/1467-9620.00216

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“…However, previous studies have also shown that acceptance of new information can lead to a change in a student's belief system. This type of change has been associated with several elements of the training program, including challenges encountered (Pajares, 1992), the contrast between various bodies of culturally-related knowledge, the teacher's personality (Eilam, 2002), and situations that directly test one's former beliefs (Fischl & Sagy, 2005). The integration of theory and practice discussed by Brouwer (1989), in which student teachers encounter reality and challenges, was indeed evident in our study.…”

Section: Influence From the Training Programsupporting

confidence: 66%

“…The introduction of textbook knowledge of language teaching methods should be prefaced by a discussion of local knowledge and customs (Xu & Connelly, 2009). Western teaching methods are not always applicable to non-Western contexts and the validity of each method in a local setting should be assessed (Chiang, 2008;Eilam, 2002). Learning to teach is context-specific and culturally bound.…”

Section: Influence From the Training Programmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Learning to Teach: A Descriptive Study of Student Language Teachers in Taiwan

Liaw¹

2012

ELT

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Studies have shown that many training programs are relatively ineffective in preparing prospective teachers for classroom teaching. Such findings suggest that teacher training programs might require improvement and that prospective teachers should be more thoroughly assessed during the training period. This study examined the learning process of a group of EFL teachers during their practicum at elementary schools. Our findings indicate that prior language learning experience and peer student teachers play a critical role in this period. Overall, the results suggested that student teachers would benefit from greater integration between field experiences, practicum, and lecture courses, which would enable the students to link teaching theory and practice more effectively.

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Section: Influence From the Training Programsupporting

confidence: 66%

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Learning to Teach: A Descriptive Study of Student Language Teachers in Taiwan

Liaw¹

2012

ELT

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“…This paper focuses on the underrepresentation of Arab women in Israeli politics. Israeli Arab culture has been described as a traditional collectivist culture (Smooha, 2010), high power distance and Patriarchal (Al-Haj, 1988, 1989Eilam, 2002;Kirkman & Shapiro, 1997;Sagy, Orr, Bar-On, & Awwad, 2001;A'li, 2014). Arab culture in Israel is influenced by three cultures: global culture; the Israeli-Jewish culture in which it acts; and Arab-Islamic culture, which is dominant in the Middle-East.…”

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Arab Women in Israeli Politics: Aspirations for Fundamental Equality or Preservation of Gender Inequality?

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Da’as²

2016

JCRS

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Rima'a Da'as AL-Qasemi-Academic College of Education, Israel This paper focuses on reviewing the factors that operate to reduce gender inequality in political representation among Arab women in Israel. A theoretical debate about the changes in the status of Arab women as they are reflected in political representation patterns is conducted in the context of the political reality in the last decade in Israel and the "Arab Spring" events. The paper also focuses on clarifying the significance of the changes in political representation patterns as future trends of reducing gender inequality, within the acknowledged social patterns, which do not subvert the gender order in Arab society in Israel or in the frame of fundamental social change.

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“…Arab teacher education students in Israel (Eilam, 2002(Eilam, , 2003 Thus the students' may critique their schooling because it was at odds with the approaches to education they have encountered in their degree, but ironically, it may also be that the students' backgrounds in a "teacher-centered" milieu contributes to their ready acceptance of "student-centered" approaches. We should be wary, however, of reading their penchant for dichotomous schema as unique to this context.…”

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Beyond Antagonism? The Discursive Construction of ‘New’ Teachers in the United Arab Emirates

Clarke

2006

Teaching Education

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The UAE, which celebrated independence in 1971, is a rapidly changing environment where aspects of traditional Bedouin culture co-exist with the immense changes being wrought by the forces of globalization and the wealth brought about by the development of the oil industry. Emirati nationals are a minority within the UAE, comprising approximately 20% of the population, and the majority of the school teachers are expatriates drawn from other Arabic speaking countries. Within this context, the Higher Colleges of Technology's Bachelor of Education degree in Teaching English to Young Learners prepares young UAE national women for English language teaching positions in local government schools. The research presented in this paper is drawn from this two-year study of student teachers and explores the discursive construction of the students' systems of knowledge and belief. The paper concludes with a critical consideration of the study's implications and some possible recommendations for teacher education in the UAE that may also have resonance for teacher education programs in other contexts.The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is located on the Arabian Peninsula and, like other Gulf states, has seen an enormous increase in wealth over recent decades as a result of the development of the oil industry, bringing immense and rapid changes in most sectors, including education. However, as in other rapidly developing economies, the demand for socioeconomic infrastructure and skilled workers has outstripped the local supply, leading to a reliance on expatriate workers. In education, the demand for teachers to staff the growing school system, which has gone from 74 government schools in 1971 (the year of independence) to over 750 in 2004, has led to an influx of expatriate teachers. In response to this situation, the UAE government has promoted a policy of Emiratization, or nationalization of the workforce. The Higher Colleges of Technology's (HCT)Bachelor of Education degree in Teaching English to Young Learners (B.Ed.) is one expression of this policy.Remarkable progress has been made in education, for example, in terms of indicators of levels such as literacy rates, with less than 20% of the population literate prior to independence, in contrast to rates of 75% for women and 70% for men by 2000 (Kazim, 2000). Despite these successes, the UAE's education system has come in for some rather severe criticisms from both internal and external sources (external: Loughrey, Hughes, The 'pedagogical gulf' between existing and aspirational levels of schooling is often expressed discursively in terms of a need to move from 'traditional' rote-based, transmission approaches currently practiced in most UAE government schools and classrooms, to 'progressive' approaches involving active, experiential learning. Such tensions are exacerbated by the political distance in a relatively stratified society, between the majority, non-Emirati, expatriate teachers and the Emirati student teachers.Underpinned by notions of the socio-discursive constructi...

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“Passing Through” a Western-Democratic Teacher Education: The Case of Israeli Arab Teachers

Cited by 45 publications

References 37 publications

Learning to Teach: A Descriptive Study of Student Language Teachers in Taiwan

Learning to Teach: A Descriptive Study of Student Language Teachers in Taiwan

Arab Women in Israeli Politics: Aspirations for Fundamental Equality or Preservation of Gender Inequality?

Beyond Antagonism? The Discursive Construction of ‘New’ Teachers in the United Arab Emirates

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