To Be a Minority Teacher in a Foreign Culture

Mary Gutman is researcher and teacher educator at the department of Early Childhood Education and the program of Educational Policy and Management. She serves as a head of the research authority at Efrata College of Education in Jerusalem, Israel. Gutman is a graduate of the excellence programs of P.Hd studies (President's Scholarship Program, Bar Ilan University) and the Postdoctoral Program (Mofet Institute). Her research interests refer to multiculturalism in teaching and teacher education, educational policy and management, minority-majority relationships and immigration in educational contexts. In recent years she has published dozens of articles in leading international journals and won a number of competitive research scholarships and grants.

Wurud Jayusi is a Head of the Arab Academic Institute and a former director of the Center for the Advancement of Shared Society (Beit Berl College, Israel). Her main research interests focus on peaceeducation, multicultural and multiethnic education, and minority-majority relations in the education system, and cross-cultural teaching. Jayusi has published multiple papers in leading academic journals and presented her studies in international conferences.

Michael Beck is a lecturer and director of the Institute "Education and Society" at the University of St. Gallen for Teacher Training, Switzerland. He holds a PhD in Educational Sociology from the University of Bern, Switzerland. His main interest is diversity with a focus on migration and socio-economic status in the areas of social mobility, educational inequality, political participation and teacher training. He is a member of the "Education and Migration" working group at Swiss universities.

Zvi Bekerman teaches anthropology of education at the School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is a faculty member at the Mandel Leadership Institute in Jerusalem. He is also an Associate Fellow at The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for The Advancement of Peace. His main interests are in the study of cultural, ethnic and national identity, including identity processes and negotiation during intercultural encounters and in formal/informal learning contexts. In addition to publishing multiple papers in a variety of academic journals, Bekerman is the founding editor of the 'Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education' academic journal.