Educating Israel
Subtitle: Educational Entrepreneurship in Israel's Multicultural Society
Edition: Tra edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 25, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781403972743
Subjects: Organization & management of education; Education; Education / Teaching; Aims & Objectives; Education / Multicultural Education; Middle East - Israel; Israel; Multicultural Education; Multiculturalism; Pluralism (Social sciences); Study and teaching
Description: "Educating Israel is a comparative ethnography of five Israeli schools that operate within a multicultural context. It gives an important glimpse of individuals and institutions who bravely operate as social and educational entrepreneurs and who strive to change Israeli Society. This book exposes and analyzes five brave Israeli schools that use state-of-the-art educational approaches to help change Israel's conflicted society. The schools profiled in this book manage to bring together and empower children from different cultures and faiths, while also helping to change Israeli society at the grassroots level."--Publisher's website.