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Al-zaroo, Salah H. (1998) Non-formal education in Palestine : a response to school exclusion. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
This research investigated the past relationship between the formal education and nonformal
educational systems in Palestine as a basis for considering what form the
relationship may take in the future. The study was based on the initial understanding that
within the field of study and practice of continuing education, non-formal education has
been conceptualised as having a particular role to play in producing a more equitable
society.
The study was undertaken at a significant political moment. Non-formal educational
institutions and programmes had flourished when, under Israeli occupation, much formal
education provision was restricted. Palestinian non-formal education played a significant
role in resistance to Israeli occupation and in the Intifada (1987-1994). In 1993, with the
signing of the Israeli-Palestinian Declaration of Principle on Interim Self Government, the
geo-political context for the Palestinian people and Palestinian institutions changed and a
transitional national authority was established. The research was shaped to consider this
transitional context.
The research was planned to include interviews with people who were likely to be
players in the process of national policy formulation. The researcher standpoint was that of
a known NFE practitioner. The intention of the field approach was (a) to assess whether a
perspective on social exclusion or, for reasons described in the dissertation, educational
exclusion was likely to inform the education policy of the new regime and (b) to stimulate
through the interview conversation, consideration of the past and future role of non-formal
education in Palestine.
Analysis of the views of 31 members of the educational elite was informed and
contextualised by a review of the literature (mostly in English and much of it written in
relation to developing societies) on non-formal education, statistical data, research reports
and case studies of education in Palestine.
The research argues for the necessity of reforming and reshaping Palestinian non-formal
education, and for strategies to be adopted that integrate formal education and non-formal
education. Consideration of policy options for the future of Palestinian non-formal
education was set within a model of relationships between non-formal education and forms
of governance.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Non-formal education -- Palestine | ||||
Official Date: | July 1998 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Continuing Education | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Duke, C. (Christopher) ; Bown, Lalage ; Blaxter, Loraine, 1945- ; Preston, Rosemary A. | ||||
Sponsors: | British Council | ||||
Extent: | 299 leaves | ||||
Language: | eng |
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