‎Contents

‎Preface

‎Earlier Studies

‎The Current Study

‎Acknowledgments

‎List of Illustrations

‎Tables

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‎Chapter 1. Conundrums of Arabic Instruction in Israel

‎The Origins of This Research Project

‎Methodological Disclosures

‎Research into Arab Underperformance in Arabic Grammar

‎Research into Jewish Underachievement of Arabic Proficiency

‎Fields as Systems

‎Chapter 2. The Field of Arabic Instruction in Israel: Underachievement in the Jewish Sector

‎Language Instruction in the Jewish Sector: English versus Arabic

‎Arabic as Cultural Capital

‎Arabic Educational Policy and Practice

‎The Politics of Schooling

‎The Intelligence Takeover of Arabic Instruction

‎Odd Coalitions

‎Subversion from Below

‎The Role of Universities

‎Segregation, Teacher Proficiency, and the Limits of Action in the Field

‎Ongoing Contestation within the Field

‎Implications

‎Chapter 3. The Tertiary Education System and the Double Alienation of Israeli Arabs from Arabic

‎The Backdrop: Arabs and Arabic-Grammar Instruction

‎The Educational Legacy of the Arabic Linguistic Tradition

‎Prototypical Pre-Modern Formal Arabic Instruction in the Arab World

‎An Outline of the Crisis in Modern Grammar Instruction

‎Tertiary Education and the Alienation of Arabs from Arabic Grammar

‎Implications

‎Chapter 4. A Cognitive Clash in the Classroom: The Incommensurability of Jewish and Arab Grammars of Arabic

‎A Lévy-Bruhlian Moment

‎The Sources

‎Lost in Simplification: The Light Hamza and the Meaning of Tenses

‎Mistranslation and the Different Construction of Nominal Sentences

‎Verb Morphology: Structuring Knowledge at Cross Purposes

‎Differences in Language Ideology and the Construction of Learning

‎Improbable Role Reversals

‎Systemic Incommensurability as Personal Failure

‎Chapter 5. Arabic-Grammar Instruction: Systemic and Cognitive Implications

‎The Social Variability of Cognition, Scholarship and Learning

‎Circumscribed Freedom within the Field

‎References

‎Textbooks Cited

‎Other Primary Material

‎Index