Ismael Abu‐saad
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ismael Abu‐saad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ismael |
| FAMILY NAME | Abu‐saad |
| SIGNATURE | SAAD I A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2601-7188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Quality of work life, cultural values, and Islamic work ethics: The case of the Arab education system in Israel
The study focuses on quality of work life (QWL), Islamic work ethics (IWE), and cultural values among employees in a complex organization, with a case study of Arab high-school teachers in the education system in Israel. The sample consisted of 1245 employees. To establish a reliable model of QWL, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis were utilized, resulting in six dimensions. A reliable model of IWE was also established,…
Islamic work ethics in a complex, conflicted cultural milieu: The case of indigenous Palestinian Arab high school teachers in Israel
Palestinian education in the Israeli settler state: Divide, rule and control
This paper situates the Israeli public educational system in the broader context of colonizing educational systems and explores the avenues through which it serves the Jewish settler-state project and establishes a colonial educational hegemony. Public education in Israel is legally mandated to promote the values of Jewish culture and loyalty to the Jewish state. Furthermore, its policy and content systematically instill racially derogatory attit…
New Mass Communication Media and the Identity of Negev Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel: In Conversation with Edward Said
Mass communication media technologies influence the structuring of reality, consolidation of value systems, and construction of common social denominators, and thus contribute to the formation of personal and national identities. While, as Edward Said has shown, mainstream Western (including Israeli) media have been dominated by Orientalist, anti-Arab/anti-Islamic perspectives, new media technologies have opened up a broad range of media options …
Access to higher education and its socio-economic impact among Bedouin Arabs in Southern Israel
Socio-Political Upheaval and Current Conditions of the Naqab Bedouin Arabs
The dynamics of negation: Identity formation among Palestinian Arab college students inside the green line
How does granting certificates of ‘business clean of Arab workers’ to owners of shops, stores, and Jewish businesses who prove they are not employing Arab workers shape identity? Identity development involves making sense of, and coming to terms with, the social world one inhabits, recognizing choices and making decisions within contexts, and finding a sense of unity within one's self while claiming a place in the world. Since there is no objecti…
Islamic work ethic among Arab college students in Israel
Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the Islamic work ethic (IWE) and individualism among Arab college students in Israel, who represent an ethnic and religious minority in a western‐oriented state. Design/methodology/approach The participants included 837 male and female Arab college students from an academic and a technical college in northern Israel. Most participants (64 percent) were Academic college students. Two measures were us…
Spatial Transformation and Indigenous Resistance: The Urbanization of the Palestinian Bedouin in Southern Israel
Indigenous peoples share a history of exclusion from the dominant society decision-making processes that directly affect them, including their displacement and relocation, development initiatives, and the process of urbanization. This article begins with a review of indigenous experiences of and responses to urbanization in a number of nation-states throughout the world. It then examines the experience of the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin commun…
Where Inquiry Ends: The Peer Review Process and Indigenous Standpoints
One of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people against colonization is to be able to exercise the fundamental right to represent themselves and to speak to the dominant society with their own voices and words, rather than to be spoken of or about. This essay discusses the mainstream academic peer review process and the suppression of indigenous standpoints by the dominant culture. The essay goes on to analyze the ways in which one mainstream i…
Bedouin Arabs in Israel: Education, Political Control and Social Change
Palestinian Education in Israel: The Legacy of the Military Government
This essay analyses the ways in which the military government (1948–1966) and its policies positioned the Palestinian Arab community in Israeli society, with a particular focus on public education. The educational system for the Palestinian Arab community developed within the context of military government, and while the formal administrative structures have changed, the legacy of using education as a tool for political purposes has endured and c…
State-Controlled Education and Identity Formation Among the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel
In many modern nation-states, national identity is not inclusive of all of the state's citizens; rather, it is limited (in varying degrees) to the members of the dominant group. Because such states are structurally unable to meet indigenous/minority groups' basic human needs for identity, inclusion, and equality, the formation of ethnically based identity and political organization is a natural alternative. To the extent that such alternatives ar…
Retelling the History: The Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin in Israel
As Linda Smith notes in the Foreword, it has been the common experience of indigenous peoples to have their histories erased and retold by the conquering colonial powers, and it is all too common for indigenous people to be powerless and passive participants in this process. In this paper it is my intention to retell the history of my own people, the Palestinian Bedouin living in what is now southern Israel, from an indigenous perspective. It is …
De-arabization of the bedouin: A study of an inevitable failure
Introduction: Special focus on racism in Israeli society
Racism is, by definition, an inter-group phenomenon that is rooted in cultural patterns, societal structures, routine practices, ideologies and discourses, by which specific racial or ethnic groups are ensured a superior and privileged status, while others are excluded and inferiorised. Furthermore, racism is a process that is both historically anchored and ingrained in a society’s dominant culture, and fully integrated in the experiences of ever…
Epilogue: Reflections on race and racism in contemporary Israeli society: 'wishing the barbarian away
This epilogue reviews various manifestations of racism in contemporary Israeli society through reflection upon an interview with the revisionist historian Prof. Benny Morris, entitled ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’. The interview provides a classically racialised representation of Israeli society, and its adversarial presence in the Middle East. Morris elucidates, both directly and indirectly, the ideology and systems of ethnic marginalisation that…
Separate and unequal: The role of the state educational system in maintaining the subordination of Israel's Palestinian arab citizens
The state educational system in Israel functions effectively to maintain the cultural, socioeconomic, and political subordination of Israel's Palestinian Arab citizens through the imposition of aims, goals and curricula to which the students cannot relate, and the substandard and discriminatory provision of educational resources, programmes and services; all of which result in markedly poorer levels of educational achievement and lower rates of s…
The Work Values of Arab Teachers in Israel in a Multicultural Context
The subjects of this study, 143 Arab elementary school teachers, represent an ethnic and religious minority in Israel, and work in schools based on a Western educational model. Their work values were measured by using the Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) and work individualism scales developed by Ali (1988). Based on the factor analysis of the IWE scale, three factors emerged: (1) personal and organizational obligations; (2) personal investment and divid…
Israeli ‘Development’ and Education Policies and their Impact on the Negev Palestinian Bedouin: Historical Experience and Future Prospects
Throughout the last five decades, successive Israeli governments have attempted to split the minority group of Palestinian Arabs with Israeli citizenship into smaller groups based on religious (Muslim, Christian, Druze) or geographical distinctions (the ‘Galilee’, the northern region; the ‘Triangle’, the central region; and the ‘Negev’, the southern region) for control purposes. The governments' treatment of Negev Palestinian Arab Bedouin, who we…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Self-Esteem Among Arab Adolescents in Israel
This study examined the level of global self-esteem of Arab adolescents in Israel and its relationship to perceived academic status and aspirations, interpersonal relationships, community type, and various demographic variables. A group of 1,560 11th- and 12th-grade Israeli-Arab adolescents answered the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (M. Rosenberg, 1965). The results revealed significant relationships (a) between global self-esteem and students' eva…
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Individualism and Islamic Work Beliefs
This study examines the relationship of individualism to Islamic work beliefs among Arab teachers in Israel. Three factors emerged from the factor analysis of the Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) scale. Personal and organizational obligations was the dominant IWE factor and was relatively independent of individualism. The other two IWE factors were moderately correlated to the individualism index
Separate and unequal: The role of the state educational system in maintaining the subordination of Israel's Palestinian arab citizens
The state educational system in Israel functions effectively to maintain the cultural, socioeconomic, and political subordination of Israel's Palestinian Arab citizens through the imposition of aims, goals and curricula to which the students cannot relate, and the substandard and discriminatory provision of educational resources, programmes and services; all of which result in markedly poorer levels of educational achievement and lower rates of s…
State-Controlled Education and Identity Formation Among the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel
In many modern nation-states, national identity is not inclusive of all of the state's citizens; rather, it is limited (in varying degrees) to the members of the dominant group. Because such states are structurally unable to meet indigenous/minority groups' basic human needs for identity, inclusion, and equality, the formation of ethnically based identity and political organization is a natural alternative. To the extent that such alternatives ar…
Spatial Transformation and Indigenous Resistance: The Urbanization of the Palestinian Bedouin in Southern Israel
Indigenous peoples share a history of exclusion from the dominant society decision-making processes that directly affect them, including their displacement and relocation, development initiatives, and the process of urbanization. This article begins with a review of indigenous experiences of and responses to urbanization in a number of nation-states throughout the world. It then examines the experience of the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin commun…
Towards an Understanding of Minority Education in Israel: The case of the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev
(1991). Towards an Understanding of Minority Education in Israel: the case of the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. Comparative Education: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 235-242
Bedouin Arab Education in the Context of Radical Social Change: What is the future
Self-Esteem Among Arab Adolescents in Israel
This study examined the level of global self-esteem of Arab adolescents in Israel and its relationship to perceived academic status and aspirations, interpersonal relationships, community type, and various demographic variables. A group of 1,560 11th- and 12th-grade Israeli-Arab adolescents answered the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (M. Rosenberg, 1965). The results revealed significant relationships (a) between global self-esteem and students' eva…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
The Education of Israel's Negev Beduin: Background and Prospects
THE EDUCATION OF BEDUIN-ARAB tribes has historically posed a unique challenge, especially given their nomadic/semi-nomadic lifestyle. During the last half century, Beduin life throughout the Middle East has undergone many changes. This is particularly true for the Beduin-Arabs of the Negev Desert in southern Israel, whose social, economic and political life has been altered quite radically since the establishment of the state of Israel. This arti…
Provision of public educational services and access to higher education among the Negev Bedouin Arabs in Israel
This paper deals with the provision of educational services and access to higher education of the Negev Bedouin Arabs in Israel, in the context of the social change this community is undergoing. The Negev Bedouin have been transformed from semi‐nomads and agriculturists to urban town dwellers. Education in general, and higher education in particular, are crucial to their adjustment and development. As members of the Arab minority in Israel, they …
The dynamics of negation: Identity formation among Palestinian Arab college students inside the green line
How does granting certificates of ‘business clean of Arab workers’ to owners of shops, stores, and Jewish businesses who prove they are not employing Arab workers shape identity? Identity development involves making sense of, and coming to terms with, the social world one inhabits, recognizing choices and making decisions within contexts, and finding a sense of unity within one's self while claiming a place in the world. Since there is no objecti…
Introduction: Special focus on racism in Israeli society
Racism is, by definition, an inter-group phenomenon that is rooted in cultural patterns, societal structures, routine practices, ideologies and discourses, by which specific racial or ethnic groups are ensured a superior and privileged status, while others are excluded and inferiorised. Furthermore, racism is a process that is both historically anchored and ingrained in a society’s dominant culture, and fully integrated in the experiences of ever…
Organizational climate and teachers' job satisfaction in a multi-cultural milieu: The case of the Bedouin Arab schools in Israel
Where Inquiry Ends: The Peer Review Process and Indigenous Standpoints
One of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people against colonization is to be able to exercise the fundamental right to represent themselves and to speak to the dominant society with their own voices and words, rather than to be spoken of or about. This essay discusses the mainstream academic peer review process and the suppression of indigenous standpoints by the dominant culture. The essay goes on to analyze the ways in which one mainstream i…
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Individualism and Islamic Work Beliefs
This study examines the relationship of individualism to Islamic work beliefs among Arab teachers in Israel. Three factors emerged from the factor analysis of the Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) scale. Personal and organizational obligations was the dominant IWE factor and was relatively independent of individualism. The other two IWE factors were moderately correlated to the individualism index
Towards an Understanding of Minority Education in Israel: The case of the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev
(1991). Towards an Understanding of Minority Education in Israel: the case of the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. Comparative Education: Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 235-242
Teachers' Job Satisfaction in Transitional Society within the Bedouin Arab Schools of the Negev
The purpose of this study was to identify job satisfaction factors in the Bedouin Arab elementary schools in the Negev and their relationships to various demographic variables. The study was conducted in 1989 and was based on a random sample of teachers from all of the Bedouin elementary schools. Job satisfaction was measured by the questionnaire developed by Wanous and Lawler (1972). Two significant job satisfaction factors emerged from factor a…
Attitudes of Russian Immigrant and Israeli-Born Women toward Child-Care Services
Israel, like most other societies, has a variety of subgroups differentiated by ascribed attitudes or characteristics which are imputed to individuals. These differences may be reflected by attitudes which are evaluative statements concerning objects, people, or events. In this study the attitudes of Israeli women--30 veterans and 30 newly arrived from the Soviet republics--toward family day-care services were examined. A number of significant di…
Organizational climate and teachers' job satisfaction in a multi-cultural milieu: The case of the Bedouin Arab schools in Israel
Bedouin Arab Education in the Context of Radical Social Change: What is the future
Provision of public educational services and access to higher education among the Negev Bedouin Arabs in Israel
This paper deals with the provision of educational services and access to higher education of the Negev Bedouin Arabs in Israel, in the context of the social change this community is undergoing. The Negev Bedouin have been transformed from semi‐nomads and agriculturists to urban town dwellers. Education in general, and higher education in particular, are crucial to their adjustment and development. As members of the Arab minority in Israel, they …
The Education of Israel's Negev Beduin: Background and Prospects
THE EDUCATION OF BEDUIN-ARAB tribes has historically posed a unique challenge, especially given their nomadic/semi-nomadic lifestyle. During the last half century, Beduin life throughout the Middle East has undergone many changes. This is particularly true for the Beduin-Arabs of the Negev Desert in southern Israel, whose social, economic and political life has been altered quite radically since the establishment of the state of Israel. This arti…
Bedouin Arab mothers' aspirations for their children's education in the context of radical social change
Individualism and Islamic Work Beliefs
This study examines the relationship of individualism to Islamic work beliefs among Arab teachers in Israel. Three factors emerged from the factor analysis of the Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) scale. Personal and organizational obligations was the dominant IWE factor and was relatively independent of individualism. The other two IWE factors were moderately correlated to the individualism index
Self-Esteem Among Arab Adolescents in Israel
This study examined the level of global self-esteem of Arab adolescents in Israel and its relationship to perceived academic status and aspirations, interpersonal relationships, community type, and various demographic variables. A group of 1,560 11th- and 12th-grade Israeli-Arab adolescents answered the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (M. Rosenberg, 1965). The results revealed significant relationships (a) between global self-esteem and students' eva…
Identity and Political Stability in an Ethnically Diverse State: A Study of Bedouin Arab Youth in Israel
This study deals with the relationship between the state of Israel and its Arab minority, with a particular focus on the Bedouin Arabs of the Negev. This relationship has been problematic from the outset, given the discrepancy between the corporate national identity of Israel as a Jewish state, and the actual composition of its population (a 17 per cent non-Jewish minority). The Bedouin are one of the segments of the Arab population that the gove…
Jewish-Arab relations in Israel: Perceptions, emotions, and attitudes of university students of education
This study reports on the perceptions, emotions and attitudes of 172 Jewish and Arab undergraduate and graduate students of education concerning their own national identity, the intergroup relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel, and the desired political solution for the Arab minority in Israel. Against the background of the continuously changing political situation that involves advances and drawbacks in the peace process between Israel and …
The Work Values of Arab Teachers in Israel in a Multicultural Context
The subjects of this study, 143 Arab elementary school teachers, represent an ethnic and religious minority in Israel, and work in schools based on a Western educational model. Their work values were measured by using the Islamic Work Ethic (IWE) and work individualism scales developed by Ali (1988). Based on the factor analysis of the IWE scale, three factors emerged: (1) personal and organizational obligations; (2) personal investment and divid…
Israeli ‘Development’ and Education Policies and their Impact on the Negev Palestinian Bedouin: Historical Experience and Future Prospects
Throughout the last five decades, successive Israeli governments have attempted to split the minority group of Palestinian Arabs with Israeli citizenship into smaller groups based on religious (Muslim, Christian, Druze) or geographical distinctions (the ‘Galilee’, the northern region; the ‘Triangle’, the central region; and the ‘Negev’, the southern region) for control purposes. The governments' treatment of Negev Palestinian Arab Bedouin, who we…
De-arabization of the bedouin: A study of an inevitable failure
Introduction: Special focus on racism in Israeli society
Racism is, by definition, an inter-group phenomenon that is rooted in cultural patterns, societal structures, routine practices, ideologies and discourses, by which specific racial or ethnic groups are ensured a superior and privileged status, while others are excluded and inferiorised. Furthermore, racism is a process that is both historically anchored and ingrained in a society’s dominant culture, and fully integrated in the experiences of ever…
Epilogue: Reflections on race and racism in contemporary Israeli society: 'wishing the barbarian away
This epilogue reviews various manifestations of racism in contemporary Israeli society through reflection upon an interview with the revisionist historian Prof. Benny Morris, entitled ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’. The interview provides a classically racialised representation of Israeli society, and its adversarial presence in the Middle East. Morris elucidates, both directly and indirectly, the ideology and systems of ethnic marginalisation that…
Separate and unequal: The role of the state educational system in maintaining the subordination of Israel's Palestinian arab citizens
The state educational system in Israel functions effectively to maintain the cultural, socioeconomic, and political subordination of Israel's Palestinian Arab citizens through the imposition of aims, goals and curricula to which the students cannot relate, and the substandard and discriminatory provision of educational resources, programmes and services; all of which result in markedly poorer levels of educational achievement and lower rates of s…
Retelling the History: The Indigenous Palestinian Bedouin in Israel
As Linda Smith notes in the Foreword, it has been the common experience of indigenous peoples to have their histories erased and retold by the conquering colonial powers, and it is all too common for indigenous people to be powerless and passive participants in this process. In this paper it is my intention to retell the history of my own people, the Palestinian Bedouin living in what is now southern Israel, from an indigenous perspective. It is …
Bedouin Arabs in Israel: Education, Political Control and Social Change
Palestinian Education in Israel: The Legacy of the Military Government
This essay analyses the ways in which the military government (1948–1966) and its policies positioned the Palestinian Arab community in Israeli society, with a particular focus on public education. The educational system for the Palestinian Arab community developed within the context of military government, and while the formal administrative structures have changed, the legacy of using education as a tool for political purposes has endured and c…
State-Controlled Education and Identity Formation Among the Palestinian Arab Minority in Israel
In many modern nation-states, national identity is not inclusive of all of the state's citizens; rather, it is limited (in varying degrees) to the members of the dominant group. Because such states are structurally unable to meet indigenous/minority groups' basic human needs for identity, inclusion, and equality, the formation of ethnically based identity and political organization is a natural alternative. To the extent that such alternatives ar…
Spatial Transformation and Indigenous Resistance: The Urbanization of the Palestinian Bedouin in Southern Israel
Indigenous peoples share a history of exclusion from the dominant society decision-making processes that directly affect them, including their displacement and relocation, development initiatives, and the process of urbanization. This article begins with a review of indigenous experiences of and responses to urbanization in a number of nation-states throughout the world. It then examines the experience of the indigenous Palestinian Bedouin commun…
Where Inquiry Ends: The Peer Review Process and Indigenous Standpoints
One of the ongoing struggles of indigenous people against colonization is to be able to exercise the fundamental right to represent themselves and to speak to the dominant society with their own voices and words, rather than to be spoken of or about. This essay discusses the mainstream academic peer review process and the suppression of indigenous standpoints by the dominant culture. The essay goes on to analyze the ways in which one mainstream i…
Islamic work ethic among Arab college students in Israel
Purpose The aim of this paper is to investigate the Islamic work ethic (IWE) and individualism among Arab college students in Israel, who represent an ethnic and religious minority in a western‐oriented state. Design/methodology/approach The participants included 837 male and female Arab college students from an academic and a technical college in northern Israel. Most participants (64 percent) were Academic college students. Two measures were us…
Political science (28 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (23 works) · Law (19 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Geography (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Jewish Identity and Society (10 works) · History (9 works)