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The Social Adjustment of Girls Circassian Students in State Elementary Schools

The Circassians are Sunni Muslims, originated in the Caucasus, a part of the former Soviet Union. During the rule of the Ottoman Sultan Abd al-Hamid II in the 1860s, many Circassians joined the Ottoman Army; some of them were settled in Israel and worked as farmers or as the maintainers of the Hejaz railway’s route from attacks of Bedouin tribes (Shabsu, 1993). Since 1948, Circassian men had begun serving in the Israel Defense Forces on the order of their leaders. The Circassians live in two villages in the Galilee area, in the Village of Kama and in Rihania. These two villages have elementary schools, in which, most of the teachers are Circassians. They belong to the Druze Education Department that is separated from the regular Israeli educational system. At the end of the elementary school phase, the Circassian pupils go to Jewish schools. This article emphasizes on the difficulties of the Circassian students, who are forced to leave their local school in the village to a Jewish one, to be adjusted to new society and culture, while preserving their own culture and origin. The emphasis would be on the viewpoint of the Circassian students, the extent of adjustment and the option to develop a ״built-in model״ that would facilitate the absorption of these students (of different origins and cultures) at school. Furthermore, the article emphasizes on the importance of school’s staff exposure to students’ standings, in a manner that would lead towards sensitivity and empathy to these special ethnic groups of students in school.

Published

Maman, Y., Falah, J., & Napso, E. (2018). The social adjustment of girls Circassian students in state elementary schools. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 6, 230-245.
DOI.org/10.4236/jss.2018.61017

״Pioneers״ – The Druze Women School Principals as Role Models and Generators of Social Change

The purpose of this preliminary study is to examine the attitudes of Druze women-school principals in relation to their role and its social significance. The research is qualitative, a ״case study״ of the phenomenon (Behrendt, 2017). Thus, in the ״Holistic״ research approach (Abuhav, 2013), the researcher is interested in revealing, learning and understanding the internal world of ״subjects״ from their point of By this approach, the origin of behavior is affected by definitions, beliefs, values and ideologies of the ״subjects״ (Pelto & Pelto, 1978). The main field work is based on in-depth ethnographic structured interviews as a primary source for information, enabling the interviewee to tell her story freely and still being focused on the research questions. The interviews include 5 Druze women school principals to describe their own personal experiences (Spradley, 1979).

Published

Faraj-Falah, J., & Maman, Y. (2019). ״Pioneers״ – the Druze women school principals as role models and generators of social change. Creative Education, 10, 1573-1588.
DOI.org/10.4236/ce.2019.107114

Students’ Violence against Teachers in the Arab Sector in Israel – a Case Study

The study deals qualitatively with one of the most concerning issues in contemporary education-the violence of students against teachers, a growing phenomenon that has not yet been thoroughly studied. It considers the phenomenon in question with relation to the diminishing status of the teacher’s authority, as part of the transformation in adult authority. The theoretical framework presents information on students’ violence against teachers at schools, while criticizing the incompetent coping with the phenomenon. In the methodological section, we present the interviews section and the list of questions we asked interviewees, such as what types of violence are common in the school? What are the characteristics of the violent student? The findings describe the school where the research was conducted, and analyze the teachers’ responses, while at the discussion summarizing the prominent points addressed by the interviews, to establish an applied model for dealing with the phenomenon at schools.

Published

Maman, Y., Yaffe, Y., & Falah, J. F. (2019). Students’ violence against teachers in the Arab sector in Israel – a case study. Sociology Mind, 9, 207-221.
DOI.org/10.4236/sm.2019.93014

The Interview as a Reflective Tool in Preschool Female Teachers’ Work with Children from Different Cultures Significance of Communication and Acquiring Hebrew in Preschool

In this article, the theoretical background was chosen to focus on three directions the first, reflective thinking as a professional need, as the focus of this research is the reflection the staff performs during the in-depth interview while referring to the immigrant child’s difficulties and coping with the new environment, and the coping of the staff working with the children and their families. The second, broad reference to the significance of communication and acquiring the Hebrew language in preschool is during the encounter with a new, foreign environment. We will also address the significance of developing social efficacy skills, which immigrant children need in order to function in preschool and develop as a mature person in the new country.

Published

Mamman, Y., Falah, J. F., & Shlush-Levy, R. (2019). The interview as a reflective tool in preschool female teachers’ work with children from different cultures significance of communication and acquiring Hebrew in preschool. Creative Education, 10, 700-713.
DOI.org/10.4236/ce.2019.104052