Educational success and long-term adaptation of immigrant students in Israel
The paper examines patterns of longitudinal cultural adaptation demonstrated by a group of professionally successful immigrants who moved from Transylvania, Romania, to Israel. On a continuum of attitudes towards immigrants ranging from resistance to active solicitation as a function of underlying i...
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Veröffentlicht in: | International journal of qualitative studies in education 1995-04, Vol.8 (2), p.171-181 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The paper examines patterns of longitudinal cultural adaptation demonstrated by a group of professionally successful immigrants who moved from Transylvania, Romania, to Israel. On a continuum of attitudes towards immigrants ranging from resistance to active solicitation as a function of underlying ideologies, Israel's emphasis on nation-building represents the positive pole. Its educational expression is a professed interest in immigrant children as the citizens of the future. Nevertheless, the data indicate that these immigrants, though not regarded as culturally remote from Israel's Western-oriented mainstream ethos, perceived initial educational encounters as oppressive, alienating, and antagonistic. They used these encounters as levers to achieve educational success. Several conditions for favorable cross-cultural adaptation of populations on scholastic and social levels are identified. |
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ISSN: | 0951-8398 1366-5898 |
DOI: | 10.1080/0951839950080205 |