Sowing the seeds of change: educating for diversity in the context of teacher training at an academic college of education in Jerusalem

“Learning to See the Person, Not the Culture or the Faith”: Critical Reflections on Internationalizing Higher Education in Israel

“…Higher education in Israel is where many students have their first contact with those outside their faith and/or ethnic community (Arar, 2012;Abu-Rabia-Queder&Arara, 2011) even though far fewer Arab students than Jewish students are accepted into higher education (Arar, 2015). There is, therefore, the potential for the sector to foster greater understanding of diversity in this conflicted region (Bar-Shalom, Diab & Rousseau, 2008) and to develop curricula that embed a social justice agenda.…”