Multicultural Education vs. Implicit and Explicit Ethnocentric Education: Text Analysis of a Contemporary Israeli Value Education Program

Roni Reingold, Sara Zamir

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Abstract

In the year 2000, Israel purportedly adopted a multicultural educational policy. It replaced the covert assimilation policy, which was referred to as ‘the integration policy’. The aim of the present study was to analyse the contemporary Israeli program of value education. Using the method of content analysis, the present study sought to determine whether the syllabi of the contemporary program reflect the adoption of a multicultural educational policy, or whether they produce only multicultural rhetoric. The findings reveal that the program reflected mainly the pluralistic approach while still maintaining traces of ethnocentric rhetoric of certain syllabi in the program.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)63-83
Number of pages21
JournalCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal
Volume7
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2017

Keywords

  • Israel
  • assimilation
  • educational policy
  • multiculturalism
  • value education

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Education

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