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Israeli Arabs and Jews
jewishsightseeing.com, Feb. 26, 2006 |
HAIFA
—Do children who learn in a
bilingual framework become more confused or more adept? Mor, who heads the University's bilingual education program,
thinks that the Israeli educational system should be integrated.
It is now separated into Jewish and Arab systems.
"This situation," she feels, "does not help the two
populations to come together. For
the most part, the estrangement is left as is, and with it comes a lack of
knowledge and understanding of the other." The A main goal of the program, which has the support of the
Ministry of Education, is to construct joint curricula based on the knowledge,
experiences, language, and culture of the two communities.
Another goal is to integrate various life cycles within and around the
formal educational frameworks in the linguistic, social, and cultural context of
the two languages, Hebrew and Arabic. The
center hopes to offer new and varied models for bilingual education.
Its program has attracted the attention of universities and cities
throughout A.M.
Goldstein is the English language editor for the University of Haifa's Department
of External Affairs. |