The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem

Cohen, Hillel

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“…This split between residential and citizenship status may be evident in the fact that although East Jerusalem Palestinians pay taxes to the municipality, they politically ignore their local government as they do not participate in municipal elections. Instead, they choose to vote in the general Palestinian Authority elections, which have little influence over their daily lives (Cohen, 2007).…”

Section: The Unique Case Of the East Jerusalem Educational Systemmentioning

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Can Pedagogical Considerations Overcome Political Constraints? Principals’ Perceptions of Leading in a Divided Community

Nir

2020

JCIE

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The current study focuses on the implications that followed the construction of a Wall separating East and West Jerusalem for Arab school leaders leading schools located in East Jerusalem. Specifically, it focuses on the following question: can pedagogical considerations overcome political constraints? The study is based on an analysis of nineteen in-depth interviews conducted with thirteen male and six female public school principals leading East Jerusalem schools. Interviews reveal that the daily reality of East Jerusalem school leaders is made of constraints and opposing demands, forcing them to constantly struggle with immense role conflicts. Three main themes reflect the implications which followed the construction of the Wall for pedagogical and managerial considerations and conduct: restricted control, deception, and the national identity enigma. The dependency-separation blend characterizing the daily reality of Arab school leaders in East Jerusalem creates forces that are beyond their control and influence. It appears that school leaders’ abilities to survive these limitations and obstacles mainly depends on their political skills and capabilities to maneuver among conflicting demands. Pedagogical knowledge and professional considerations come second.

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Section: The Unique Case Of the East Jerusalem Educational Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Can Pedagogical Considerations Overcome Political Constraints? Principals’ Perceptions of Leading in a Divided Community

Nir

2020

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“…This split between residential and citizenship status may be evident in the fact that although East Jerusalem Palestinians pay taxes to the municipality, they politically ignore their local government, as they do not participate in municipal elections. Instead, they choose to vote in the general Palestinian Authority (PA) elections, which have little influence over their daily lives (Cohen, 2007).…”

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“…School principals are caught in a double bind as a consequence of the different official agendas they need to follow; the same applies to school superintendents, who answer to both the Israeli government and the PA. Moreover, because of the close monitoring of the Israeli security forces, Palestinians are forced to distance themselves from any political involvement (Cohen, 2007), especially if they want to be employed by the Israeli government (Al-Haj, 1995). As a result, educators at the school level are afraid and therefore never speak about politics and students' collective identity.…”

Section: The East Jerusalem Educational Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Emergence of Hybrid Role Conflict in Conflicting Settings: A Unique Challenge for School Leaders

Nir

2011

International Journal of Educational Reform

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To what extent do divided cities characterized by geopolitical conflicts and a variety of contradictory expectations create a distinctive context and a unique professional conflict for individuals holding boundary-spanning roles? Data collected in a set of in-depth interviews conducted with school principals leading Arab schools located in East Jerusalem provide evidence for principals’ stress following the large and various number of role expectations they are expected to satisfy. The data testify to principals’ exposure to a hybrid role conflict—a unique conflict reflecting a mixture of incongruent expectations regarding a particular issue coming from both internal and external sources representing different sets of values. Moreover, it is evident that hybrid conflicts suggesting a clash between competing values and ideologies foster principals’ tendency to employ a radical coping strategy based on a cost–benefit minimal risk approach and to act deceitfully as means to diminish their stress. The study demonstrates the significance of contextual features that frame the scope for individuals’ professional behavior when serving in boundary-spanning roles and discusses some implications of hybrid conflicts for professional judgment and behavior.

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“…This colonial-type regime has produced a highly segregated urban built environment in which Palestinians have maintained their own urban services and institutions relatively independent of Israeli administrative authorities. This first occurred under the auspices of Jordan in the 1970s-1980s, and later under the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) in the 1990s (Cohen, 2011;Romann and Weingrod, 1991). In this spatially and politically polarized environment, the Palestinian neighborhoods of East Jerusalem uneasily straddle these two worlds, both figuratively and literally.…”

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Sub-formality in the formalization of public transport in East Jerusalem

Shlomo

2016

Current Sociology

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This article discusses formalization processes in the context of urban conflict, focusing on the ways adversarial power relations dictate methods and outcomes of formalization. Based on analysis of the formalization of public transport in ethno-nationally contested Jerusalem, the article demonstrates the production of a mode of formalization, which the author terms sub-formalization. This mode is characterized by severe deviation from professional and administrative norms, both in methods and outcomes, and usually results in inferior solutions and irregular arrangements for challenging informality. In sub-formalization, modern rationality – which constructs planners’ professional authority – is eroded by powers from above and below. Therefore sub-formality represents a mutation of modern, rational, West-oriented planning, coming as a result of the encounter with informality and resistance in a way that blurs dichotomization between the formal and informal. In the context of an ongoing urban conflict, as in the case of East Jerusalem, sub-formality is also utilized by the state to maintain urban marginality and secure existing power hierarchies.

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The Rise and Fall of Arab Jerusalem

Cited by 9 publications

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Can Pedagogical Considerations Overcome Political Constraints? Principals’ Perceptions of Leading in a Divided Community

Can Pedagogical Considerations Overcome Political Constraints? Principals’ Perceptions of Leading in a Divided Community

The Emergence of Hybrid Role Conflict in Conflicting Settings: A Unique Challenge for School Leaders

Sub-formality in the formalization of public transport in East Jerusalem

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