SUCCESS AGAINST THE ODDS: PALESTINIAN FEMALE STUDENTS OUTPERFORM THEIR MALE COUNTERPARTS IN ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT

Makkawi, Ibrahim

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Publication date (Print): 1 January 2011

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[1] Banks, J. (1994). Multiethnic Education: Theory and Practice. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

[2] Bannerji, H. (2002). Cultural Nationalism and Woman as the Subject of the Nation. Ontario: Institute of Women's Studies, University of Ottawa.

[3] Bannerji, H., Mojab, S., and Whitehead, J. (2001). Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

[4] Belenky, M., Clinchy, B., Goldberger, N., and Tarule, J. (1997). Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self Voice, and Mind. New York: Basic Books.

[5] Brown, N. (2001). Democracy, History, and the Contest over the Palestinian Curriculum. Washington, DC: Adam Institute.

[6] Floyd, C. (1996). Achieving Despite the Odds: A Study of Resilience among a Group of African American High School Seniors. Journal of Negro Education, 65(2), 181-189.

[7] Gilligan, C. (1982). In a Different Voice : Psychological Theory and Women s Development. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

[8] Giroux, H. (1997). Pedagogy and the Politics of Hope: Theory, Culture and Schooling. Colorado: Westview Press.

[9] Glaser, B. and Strauss, A. (1967). The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. New York: Aldine De Gruyter.

[10] Hammami, R. (1991). Women's Political Participation in the Intifada: A Critical Overview. In Women's Studies Committee (ed.) The Intifada and Some Women s Social Issues (pp. 73-84). Jerusalem: Bisan Center.

[11] Hiltermann, J. (1991). Behind the Intifada: Labor and Women's Movements in the Occupied Territories. New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

[12] Howard, S., Dryden, J., and Johnson, B. (1999). Childhood Resilience: Review and Critique of Literature. Oxford Review of Education, 25(3), 307-323.

[13] Jarrett, R. (1997). Resilience among Low-Income African American Youth: An Ethnographic Perspective. Ethos, 25(2), 218-229.

[14] Jayawardena, K. (ed.) (1986). Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World. London: Zed Books.

[15] Josselson, R. (1987). Finding Herself: Pathways to Identity Development in Women. San Francisco: Gessy-Bass.

[16] Kuhn, T. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[17] Kurd, A. and Herrscher, B. (1995). Alternative Education under the Intifada: The Palestinian Response to Israel Policy in the Occupied Territories. In Elizabeth Fernea (ed.) Children in the Muslim Middle East (pp. 298-308). Austin: University of Texas Press.

[18] Makkawi, I. (2008). The Psychology of Resilience among Palestinian Female Students. Paper presented at the II International Conference on Community Psychology: Building Participative, Empowering and Diverse Communities—Visioning Community Psychology in a Worldwide Perspective. Lisbon, Portugal. June.

[19] Makkawi, I. and Jaramillo, N. (2006). The Dialectic of Nationalism and Feminism among Palestinian Women Student-Activists in Israeli Universities. Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 10(2), 39-62.

[20] Mazawi, A. (1994). Teachers' Role Patterns and the Mediation of Sociopolitical Change: The Case of Palestinian Arab School Teachers. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 15(4), 497-514.

[21] McLaren, P. (1994). Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education. New York: Longman.

[22] Patton, M. (2002). Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methods (3rd ed.). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.

[23] Perry, W. (1970). Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.

[24] Pollard, D. (1989). Against the Odds: A Profile of Academic Achievers from the Urban Underclass. Journal of Negro Education, 58(3), 297-308.

[25] Sadker, K. and Sadker, D. (1982). Sex Equity Handbook for Schools. New York: Longman.

[26] Sadker, M., Sadker, D., and Long, L. (1993). Gender and Educational Equality. In James Banks and Cherry McGee Banks (eds.) Multicultural Education: Issues and Perspective (pp. 111-129). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.

[27] Santisteban, A. (2002). Palestinian Education: A National Curriculum Against All Odds. International Journal of Educational Development, 22, 145-154.

[28] Sayigh, Rosemary (1989). Palestinian Women: Triple Burden, Single Struggle. In (ed.) Palestine: Profile of an Occupation. London: Zed Books Ltd.

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