Between collaboration and conflict: the exploration of micropolitical processes during reform enactment in an Arab junior high school in Israel. Issue 2 (23rd February 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Agbaria, Ayman K.; Daibes, Salam; Muff, Aline
• Is Part Of: Educational review. Volume 74:Issue 2(2022)
• Page Start: 188
• Page End: 206
• Publication Date: 2022-02-23
• Subjects: Education and minorities -- new professionalism -- educator identity -- Arab education in Israel -- neoliberal education reform -- micropolitics; Education -- Periodicals; Éducation -- Périodiques; 370.5
• DOI: 10.1080/00131911.2019.1705249
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0013-1911

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article discusses a qualitative case study that investigated the micropolitical processes inside an Arab junior high school in Israel during the enactment of the New Horizon reform. Our analysis focuses on how the school's educational staff interprets and translates the reform into practice, how their professional identities have developed along this process and on the role of their background as members of the Arab-Palestinian community. We found the principal and teachers draw on both collaborative and conflict-promoting strategies to defend their interests. The study demonstrated the importance of micropolitical considerations and local contexts for macropolitical reforms.