{"title":"Bilingual digital learning in teacher education: Bridge or barrier in the enhancement of shared society?","authors":"Orit Schwarz-Franco, Aryeh Ben-Haim, Najwan Saada","doi":"10.1386/ctl_00126_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"What is the right way to design interethnic educational encounters to promote a shared society in Israel? The challenge of bridging groups who speak different languages is magnified in the Israeli case because of the national conflict and linguistic asymmetry. This article examines a possible solution, a partly bilingual massive open online course (MOOC), developed by the authors and designed to maintain a balanced emphasis on students’ ethnic group identities, along with openness towards the Other. In this qualitative research, we explored the participants’ experiences of the MOOC and whether it promoted cross-cultural understanding.","PeriodicalId":38020,"journal":{"name":"Citizenship Teaching and Learning","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Citizenship Teaching and Learning","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00126_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
What is the right way to design interethnic educational encounters to promote a shared society in Israel? The challenge of bridging groups who speak different languages is magnified in the Israeli case because of the national conflict and linguistic asymmetry. This article examines a possible solution, a partly bilingual massive open online course (MOOC), developed by the authors and designed to maintain a balanced emphasis on students’ ethnic group identities, along with openness towards the Other. In this qualitative research, we explored the participants’ experiences of the MOOC and whether it promoted cross-cultural understanding.
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Citizenship Teaching & Learning is published in partnership with the Children’s Identity and Citizenship in Europe Association (CiCea). Citizenship Teaching & Learning is global in scope, exploring issues of social and moral responsibility, community involvement and political literacy. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that advances academic and professional understandings within a broad characterization of education, focusing on a wide range of issues including identity, diversity, equality and social justice within social, moral, political and cultural contexts.