Minorities often need to be integrated in all the sectors, especially the education. This
paper deals with minorities’ integration in different countries in the world and finally discusses
the situation of Arab-speaking minorities in Israel.
Stakeholders stressed that the establishment of the Arab education system independent
is not an expression of secession from the state, but rather an expression of integration
within it, namely giving expression to the collective identity of the Arab minority
on maintaining ties with the country, highlighting the shared ambition to create a civic
culture includes Israel (Adler and Blass). In October 2011, the Monitoring Committee on
Arab Education published the goals of the Arab Pedagogical Council in a document entitled
“The Goals of Education and Instruction of the Palestinian Minority in Israel.” The main
goals mentioned in the document included the following goals: to strengthen Arab students’
knowledge of Arabic as a language that expresses identity and belonging, as well
as a means of communication, culture and research; strengthen national identity among
Arab students will be based on the “cohesion among the Palestinian people, to strengthen
memory and narrative of the Palestinian adherence to the history and political rights of the
Palestinian people, and cultural pluralism, religious and social” and encourage Arab students
to hold a constructive dialogue with the other, Jewish-Israeli perspective, based on a
vision of shared life in one homeland, cooperation, equality and mutual respect .
The approach adopted by the Education Ministry is integration of the Arab minority,
rather than granting autonomy to Arab education. In the case of the Arab Pedagogical
Council, even though the initiators of its establishment emphasized that it would operate
within the framework of the Ministry of Education, the State does not cooperate with the
idea and so far, has not been recognized by the Ministry of Education.