ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the intersection of global and local identity as it pertains to the case of Israeli youth studying at United World Colleges (UWC) versus those studying at local secondary schools. We examine how education at UWC schools shapes the national identity of Israeli high-school seniors, in contradiction with their socio-economically matched peers who studied at local Israeli schools that encourage a distinctly locally oriented identity. Specifically, twenty Israeli youth participated in semi-structured interviews; ten of them had just completed their final year of studies at UWC schools abroad, whereas the other ten had recently graduated from the Israeli public education system. We show that Israeli youth at both UWC schools and Israeli schools were pushed away from a cosmopolitan outlook, each for different reasons. As such, we discuss how complex relations with one’s nation’s political conflicts promote locally oriented identities even for students who were educated with a cosmopolitan ethos and surroundings, such as Israeli students at UWC schools.

摘要

本研究侧重于全球和本地身份的交集，因为它涉及在世界联合学院 (UWC) 学习的以色列青年与在当地中学学习的青年的案例。我们研究了 UWC 学校的教育如何塑造以色列高中生的国家认同感，这​​与他们在当地以色列学校学习的社会经济匹配的同龄人鼓励明显以当地为导向的认同感相矛盾。具体来说，20 名以色列青年参加了半结构化访谈；其中 10 人刚刚在国外 UWC 学校完成最后一年的学业，而另外 10 人最近刚从以色列公共教育系统毕业。我们表明，UWC 学校和以色列学校的以色列青年都因不同的原因而远离国际化视野。因此，