The Palestinian minority in Israel: when common core curriculum in education meets conflicting national narratives

Abstract

This paper starts with a brief survey of how the Israeli education system has handled the issue of the existence of an Arab community in Israel’s collective identity, and how this was affected by reforms that were initiated in the education system throughout the years. The second part of the paper examines various possibilities regarding how the inclusion of the Arab collective identity can best be accommodated in the education system and its curricula.

Notes

1. Quoted by Yair Atinger (2005).

2. Hassan Jabarin (2000) makes similar claims in favor of the creation of separate public domains, enabling Palestinian communities to preserve their national‐cultural uniqueness.

3. The Knesset Chronicles 24: 6594–5.