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- Title
The Determination of Educational Policy: Shas, Politics, and Religion.
- Authors
Feldman, Anat
- Abstract
This article examines the reasons why countries change their educational policies, using Israel as a case study. Employing quantitative and qualitative methods, I show that political constraints can cause governments to modify their educational policies without professional pedagogical discourse. Using the example of the ultra-Orthodox ethnic political party Shas, I demonstrate how--thanks to the political power that the party had gained, as well as the weakening of nationalist values--it succeeded in establishing a network of party schools with state funding despite the fact that some of these schools teach neither the state's values nor the core curriculum determined by the Ministry of Education.
- Subjects
ISRAEL; EDUCATION policy; EDUCATION; EDUCATION &; politics; SHAS Party (Political party : Israel); GOVERNMENT policy on schools; POWER (Social sciences); RELIGIOUS minorities; NATIONALISM
- Publication
Israel Studies Review, 2017, Vol 32, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
2159-0370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/isr.2017.320206