ההערכה העצמית הקולקטיבית של הסטודנטיות הערביות במכללות לחינוך במדינת ישראל

Abstract

The Arab students in the Israeli colleges, both who belong to Israeli institutions
and to an independent Arab ownership, are studying in different specialties, and
most of them in education and teacher training colleges. In terms of identity, they
belong to four different self-categorization groups, all of which the Israeli Arab
population belongs to it.
The question arises here: how the Arab students evaluate themselves in different
groups of self- categorization.
The purpose of this study is to examine the collective self-esteem of this group
and to ascertain whether there is a relationship between it and institutional
belonging of the colleges.
The study was applied to the population of Israeli Arab students in colleges, in a
sample of 300 students, who study in Israeli colleges, with different ownerships,
Jewish and Arab.
The research tool was a collective self-esteem questionnaire that examined the
collective self-esteem of the student's self- categorization in four groups that were
common in previous studies.
The Research findings show that the collective self-esteem in the Arab selfcategorization is highlighted and featured in the Arab colleges but the Israeli
identity is low in those places. In the Jewish-owned institutions the strong identity
is the Arab and Palestinian, Perhaps because the two identities having national
dimension