Ethnicity and Gender

This article focuses on one of the discussions. The names of the discussants are fictitious but reflect the ethnicity (Jew, Arab) and the gender of the participant. The ethnicity is not blurred because it turned to be highly relevant to the discussions. Judith is a 26 year old Jewish graduate student in Educational Psychology. She also attends a pre-service teacher program in psychology and in biology. She uses to teach special education young delinquent girls. Fatima is a 25 year oldMuslim student in Education. Shewas accredited as a teacher at elementary school level and worked as a kindergarten teacher in the Arab sector with toddlers with problems in language development. Ahmad is a 47 year old teacher. He is an alumnus from the Hebrew University in Arab literature, and is a graduate in political sciences. He serves as a teacher for 20 years, 8 of them he taught Arab literature in high-school and junior high-school levels in the Arab sector. He also taught Civic Education, History and Arabic language. In the past he taught in one of the bi-national schools in Israel. At the time of the present study, Ahmad worked as a teacher in History and in Civic education in East Jerusalem. Rim is a 31 year old Muslim graduate student in Hebrew language and Education. She serves as a teacher of Hebrew language in an Arab school in grades 4 to 6. She also served as a project coordinator in special education (in the Jewish as well as in the Arab sector).