TY - JOUR
T1 - Existence and coexistence in Acre
T2 - The power of educational activism
AU - Hertz-Lazarowitz, Rachel
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - This article presents a five-year action-research project of systemic change toward coexistence in Acre, a mixed Arab-Jewish city in Israel. Educational activism was the basis for this project. Because education in Acre was closely interwoven with discriminative politics, this project used a citywide systemic approach consisting of three layers: (a) work in schools that used cooperative learning to increase achievement, (b) work with parents in school-family literacy partnerships, and (c) work with the city's educational and political leadership for citywide change. Data presented for each layer show the potential of this long-term holistic approach to bring coexistence to the community, even though regional and political factors worked against community coexistence.
AB - This article presents a five-year action-research project of systemic change toward coexistence in Acre, a mixed Arab-Jewish city in Israel. Educational activism was the basis for this project. Because education in Acre was closely interwoven with discriminative politics, this project used a citywide systemic approach consisting of three layers: (a) work in schools that used cooperative learning to increase achievement, (b) work with parents in school-family literacy partnerships, and (c) work with the city's educational and political leadership for citywide change. Data presented for each layer show the potential of this long-term holistic approach to bring coexistence to the community, even though regional and political factors worked against community coexistence.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00116.x
DO - 10.1111/j.0022-4537.2004.00116.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:3142598680
SN - 0022-4537
VL - 60
SP - 357
EP - 371
JO - Journal of Social Issues
JF - Journal of Social Issues
IS - 2
ER -