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Does Education Necessarily Mean Enlightenment? The Case of Higher Education among Palestinians—Bedouin Women in Israel
Author(s) -
AbuRabiaQueder Sarab
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00029.x
Subject(s) - enlightenment , postmodernism , ethnic group , sociology , meaning (existential) , gender studies , humanism , philosophy of education , higher education , social science , political science , anthropology , law , epistemology , philosophy
This study challenges and evaluates modern‐liberal‐humanistic discourse on education as enlightenment through analysis of the life stories of the first Bedouin women to acquire higher education (hereafter: First Women). The liberal discourse is examined in terms of its ethnic and genderial contexts and the special status these women gained as trailblazers. I explore the meaning of enlightenment among Bedouin women and the question of when and whether (higher) education facilitates or impedes their progress. [education, enlightenment, postmodernism, modernism, Bedouin women]