Female Arab Students' Experience of Acculturation and Cultural Diversity upon Accessing Higher Education in the Northern Galilee-Israel

Autor/in	Geiger, Brenda
Titel	Female Arab Students' Experience of Acculturation and Cultural Diversity upon Accessing Higher Education in the Northern Galilee-Israel
Quelle	In: International Journal of Higher Education, 2 (2013) 3, S.91-106 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1927-6044
Schlagwörter	Qualitative Research; Females; Student Attitudes; Muslims; Christianity; Religious Cultural Groups; College Admission; Self Efficacy; Semi Structured Interviews; Proximity; Access to Education; Higher Education; Semitic Languages; Acculturation; Cultural Pluralism; Arabs; Ethnicity; Self Concept; Content Analysis; Spouses; Moral Values; Language Proficiency; Second Language Learning; Academic Achievement; Socioeconomic Influences; Social Bias; Intergroup Relations; Conflict; Jews; Teacher Student Relationship; College Students; College Faculty; Foreign Countries; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Schülerverhalten; Muslim; Muslimin; Christentum; Kirchliche Gruppe; Religionszugehörigkeit; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Self-efficacy; Selbstwirksamkeit; Lebensnähe; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Arabisch; Hebräisch; Akkulturation; Kulturpluralismus; Arab; Araber; Ethnizität; Selbstkonzept; Inhaltsanalyse; Ehepartner; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Schulleistung; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Intergruppenbeziehungen; Konflikt; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Collegestudent; Fakultät; Ausland
Abstract	This qualitative study addresses the issue of the cultural transition of Arab women who for the first time leave their secluded villages and traditional society in the Northern Galilee to access Western-style Israeli institutions of higher education located in the region in which they will study in Hebrew, their second language. This study uses several models of acculturation in order to better understand these women's experience of acculturation, cultural diversity, ethnic identity and at times discrimination as they come into contact with students belonging to a diversity of Arab and Jewish ethnic groups. Content analysis of semi-structured interviews conducted with 42 female Arab students of Druze, Muslim and Christian origin, revealed that parental and/or husband support, lower college admission requirements, and the geographical proximity of the colleges to the villages allowed gave these women the opportunity to access higher education without compromising their traditional values of modesty and virginity. Hebrew language proficiency, seldom spoken in the villages, and consequent academic self-efficacy perception were for these women key factors for academic success and integration in the dominant Israeli socio-economic structures. Lack of tolerance for cultural diversity, discrimination, and inter-groups conflict were at times, reported not only between Arab and Jewish but also between Druze and Muslim students and/or their instructors. Factors mentioned to be reducing cultural shock and acculturative stress were the presence of other female Arab students from the same or neighboring towns studying in the college and the going back and forth between cultures as these women returned every day back home to their villages. Exposed to other values and traditions these women sorted the values they cherished in their own and in other cultures while maintaining a strong sense of cultural identity. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01