Arabic Instruction in Israel

Lessons in Conflict, Cognition and Failure

Allon Uhlmann (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2017
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32381-0 (ISBN)

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In Arabic Instruction in Israel Allon J. Uhlmann offers a systemic account of two shortfalls of Israeli Arabic instruction, namely the failure to inculcate proficiency in Jewish school and university students, and the alienation of Arab university students from Arabic grammar.

In Arabic Instruction in Israel Allon J. Uhlmann confronts two conundrums, namely the persistently poor level of Arabic proficiency among Jewish Arabic students and teachers, and the traumatic alienation of Arab students by university Arabic grammar instruction.

These are not aberrations but rather direct, albeit unintended, systemic consequences of the field of Arabic instruction, where Jewish students encounter Arabic as a dead, hostile language; Jewish hegemony devalues native Arabic proficiency; and Arab students are locked into a fractured educational trajectory – encountering two alienating and mutually unintelligible grammars of Arabic at school and at university.

By tracing systemic variabilities in cognition and learning Uhlmann exposes hitherto misrecognised dynamics that hinder Arabic instruction in Israel, thereby offering new avenues for possible change.

Allon J. Uhlmann, PhD, Anthropology (2002, Australian National University), is a research manager and policy analyst with the Australian Public Service. He is the author of Family, Gender and Kinship in Australia (Ashgate, 2006).

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

1 Conundrums of Arabic Instruction in Israel

The Origins of This Research Project

Methodological Disclosures

2 The Field of Arabic Instruction in Israel: Underachievement in the Jewish Sector

Language Instruction in the Jewish Sector—English versus Arabic

Arabic as Cultural Capital

Arabic Educational Policy and Practice

Implications

3 The Tertiary Education System and the Double Alienation of Israeli Arabs from Arabic

The Backdrop: Arabs and Arabic-Grammar Instruction

Tertiary Education and the Alienation of Arabs from Arabic

Grammar

Implications

4 A Cognitive Clash in the Classroom—The Incommensurability of Jewish and Arab Grammars of Arabic

A Lévy-Bruhlian Moment

The Sources

Lost in Simplification: The Light Hamza and the Meaning of Tenses

Mistranslation and the Different Construction of Nominal Sentences

Verb Morphology:Structuring Knowledge at Cross Purposes

Differences in Language Ideology and the Construction of Learning

Improbable Role Reversals

Systemic Incommensurability as Personal Failure

5 Arabic-Grammar Instruction: Systemic and Cognitive Implications

The Social Variability of Cognition, Scholarship and Learning

Circumscribed Freedom within the Field

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.02.2018
Reihe/Serie	Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 117
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	448 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-32381-3 / 9004323813
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32381-0 / 9789004323810
Zustand	Neuware