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- Title
The Americanization of Educational Research in Israel.
- Authors
Stahl, Abraham
- Abstract
This article focuses on the Americanization of educational research in Israel. Israel is certainly not the best example of a scientifically underdeveloped country. Nevertheless, the strong pull of issues current in the social research going on in America is decidedly felt. This can easily be seen from the extent Israeli social research draws on theoretical and empirical work published in English, mainly in the U.S. As most of the examples will be taken from the education of culturally disadvantaged children in Israel, the author shall supply some of the basic facts on this population, noting some of the similarities and differences between the situation in Israel and that in the U.S. As is well known to anyone acquainted with Israeli education, the advancement of the disadvantaged is one of its major problems. Of the elementary school population, 42 percent of the children are officially defined as being in need of fostering. In Israel, as in the U.S., educational failure is linked to ethnic origin, 90 percent of Israel's educationally disadvantaged are the children of Oriental Jews, who came to Israel from the countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ISRAEL; AMERICANIZATION; EDUCATION research; POOR children; SOCIAL marginality; MIZRAHIM
- Publication
Teachers College Record, 1981, Vol 82, Issue 4, p623
- ISSN
0161-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/016146818108200402