Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University, Canada)
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Volume: 24 Number: 6 Page: 473–484
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Palestinian-Jewish Bilingual Education in Israel: Its Influence on Cultural Identities and its Impact on Intergroup Conflict
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Zvi Bekerman and Nader Shhadi
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This paper reports on a rather small cross-sectional study conducted with students studying in an integrated bilingual Palestinian-Jewish school and with similar age students studying in standard segregated Palestinian-Jewish schools in Israel. The interviews performed allow us to become
acquainted with the children's conceptions of issues regarding their own Jewish and Palestinian cultural identity as these are shaped through the interaction in school and the larger communal context and how they envision the conflict and their present and future relations with the 'other'.
The study was conceived as a first step towards a longitudinal study on the long-term influence of bilingual education on students, their cultural identities and their perceptions of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
All in all we believe our study contributes valuable information on the
potential of bilingual education to shape identities in conflict-ridden environments and the possibility of healing through these educational efforts.
Keywords: BILINGUAL EDUCATION, PEACE EDUCATION, INTERGROUP ENCOUNTERS, IDENTITY, CULTURE, COEXISTENCE
© 2003 Multilingual Matters
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