The bilingual school – an educational model for civic equality in a divided society

Abstract

The current study examines the workings of a bilingual school for Jewish and Palestinian-Israeli students and its contribution towards the goal of educating for equal citizenship in Israel’s multicultural society. The findings indicate that this school succeeds in advancing the notion of equal citizenship, as demonstrated in the fact that the school’s organisational structure and the curricular contents afford equal status to both nationalities. Findings of this study maybe relevant to other multicultural societies.

Keywords:

• Bilingual school
• education for equal citizenship
• multiculturalism
• Israel’s Palestinian citizens
• citizenship studies