Prelims
Digital Protest and Activism in Public Education: Reactions to Neoliberal Restructuring in Israel
ISBN: 978-1-83867-105-1, eISBN: 978-1-83867-102-0
Publication date: 1 November 2019
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Berkovich, I. and Avigur-Eshel, A. (2019), "Prelims", Digital Protest and Activism in Public Education: Reactions to Neoliberal Restructuring in Israel, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83867-102-020191001
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Copyright © Izhak Berkovich and Amit Avigur-Eshel, 2020
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Digital Protest and Activism in Public Education
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Digital Protest and Activism in Public Education: Reactions to Neoliberal Restructuring in Israel
By
Izhak Berkovich
The Open University of Israel, Israel
and
Amit Avigur-Eshel
Sapir College, Israel
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Contents
| List of Tables and Figures | vii |
| Biographies | ix |
| Acknowledgment | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| 1. Out with the Old, in with the New: Three Ages of Israeli Public Education Policies | 11 |
| 2. From Education to All to Education for Me: Changes in Israeli Public Values and Interests | 33 |
| 3. Rhetoric and Images in Online Agenda Setting: Teachers’ Digital Protest against Educational Reform | 51 |
| 4. Two Faces of Digital Activism: Parents’ Anti-neoliberal and Pro-neoliberal Protests | 87 |
| 5. Opening the Black Box of Digital Activism in Education in the Neoliberal Age: Lived Experience and Patterns of Use of Social Media | 115 |
| Conclusion | 143 |
| Index | 151 |
List of Tables and Figures
| Tables | ||
| Table 3.1. | Teachers’ Blogs and Partisan School Sites Analyzed in the Study. | 61 |
| Table 3.2. | Study Categories of Rhetoric and Images in Teachers’ Online Agenda Setting. | 63 |
| Table 4.1. | Comparison of the Views Held and Frames Used by the Leaderships of the Protests. | 104 |
| Table 5.1. | Coding Categories of Facebook Capabilities in Political Activism. | 127 |
| Table 5.2. | Frequency of Categories of Facebook Capabilities in the Two Parents’ Activism Cases. | 131 |
| Figures | ||
| Fig. 3.1. | Conceptual Model of Political Processes in the Education System. | 55 |
| Fig. 5.1. | Taxonomy of Facebook Uses in Political Activism. | 119 |
| Fig. 5.2. | Number of Protest Locations by Socioeconomic Clusters. | 129 |
| Fig. 5.3. | Online Activity Trends (Normalized Daily Averages) and Protest Timelines. | 132 |
Biographies
Izhak Berkovich is a Faculty Member in the Department of Education and Psychology at the Open University of Israel. He also heads the Research Institute for Policy Analysis at the Open University of Israel. His research interests include politics and policy making in education, educational reforms, and educational leadership. He has published in various journals such as Critical Studies in Education, Comparative Education Review, Globalisation, Societies and Education, and Journal of Educational Change.
Amit Avigur-Eshel is a Lecturer in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Sapir College, Israel. His research interests include the political economy and political sociology of neoliberalism, the politics of education, and financial education. He has published in various journals such as Political Studies, British Journal of Sociology of Education, International Journal of Educational Development, and Journal of Political Ideologies.
Acknowledgment
This book was published with support of the Open University of Israel’s Research Fund.
- Prelims
- Introduction
- 1: Out with the Old, In with the New: Three Ages of Israeli Public Education Policies
- 2: From Education to All to Education for Me: Changes in Israeli Public Values and Interests
- 3: Rhetoric and Images in Online Agenda Setting: Teachers’ Digital Protest Against Educational Reform
- 4: Two Faces of Digital Activism: Parents’ Anti-Neoliberal and Pro-Neoliberal Protests
- 5: Opening the Black Box of Digital Activism in Education in the Neoliberal Age: Lived Experience and Patterns of Use of Social Media
- Conclusion
- Index