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2024 - Volume 8 - Number 2

Organization and Regulatory Base of Primary School Education in Israel: Specifics of Teaching Bedouin Students in Primary School

Hanan Abu-Frih * ORCID: 0009-0007-6543-4466
South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosophy, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA

Open Journal for Educational Research, 2024, 8(2), 49-56 * https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojer.0802.02049a
Received: 27 July 2024 ▪ Revised: 8 December 2024 ▪ Accepted: 16 December 2024

LICENCE: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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ABSTRACT:
After the establishment of the state, there was a radical change in the life of the Bedouin Arabs in the Negev. They were not allowed to continue their traditional way of life in a short time. Bedouins are a destitute minority in a Western-oriented country. This change created the need for a formal education system that would deal with the new reality. Formal education became a prerequisite for the success of the Bedouin Arabs to adapt to the changes that have changed their lives due to the need for assimilation, partially or fully, in the Israeli economy for their livelihood. However, the formal education system is a fairly new framework in the Arab-Bedouin community in the Negev. Bedouin education frameworks were not formal, and the young men and women were educated through observation of adults and active participation in everyday life. The influence of the control system is so strong that teachers and education administration personnel are kept in the system of Arab education is afraid to even openly criticize the Ministry of Education. For example, in an article published in the Jerusalem Post on 14 December 2005, dealing with the sub-conditions at the school in one of the recognized Bedouin settlements in the Negev, the administrators and teachers agreed to speak only anonymously.

KEY WORDS: Israeli education, Bedouins, Arab-Israelis, primary school.

CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Hanan Abu-Frih, South-West University “Neofit Rilski”, Faculty of Philosophy, Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA.

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