Prof. Randa Khair-Abbas

College President

The Academic Arab College for Education in‮ ‬Israel‭, ‬Haifa

randaab@arabcol.ac.il

+972-4-9515543

CV File

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Education
  1. Higher Education
  2. Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutes of Higher Education
Scholarly Positions and Activities Outside the Institution
    1. Ad-Hoc Reviewer
    2. Membership in Scientific/professional organizations
Active Participation in Scholarly Conferences
    1. International Conferences – Held Abroad
    2. Local Conferences
    3. Conference Chairperson
Invited Lectures (Other than in Scholarly Conferences)
    1. Abroad
    2. In Israel
Research Grants
    1. Grants Awarded
Scholarships, Awards and Prizes
    1. Supervision of Graduate Students
Miscellaneous
    1. Development and writing of academic programs
    2. Development of international educational projects
Professional Experience/Social Involvement

Professional Experience/Social Involvement

PUBLICATIONS

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

B. Scientific Books 

C. Articles in Refereed Journals

D. Articles in Preparation

E. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books 

F. In Conference Proceedings

H. Other Scientific Publications

Conference Booklet

Published Research Reports

Other Publications

Published

  1. ✶Abbas, R. K. (2025).  An intercultural journey on the yellow brick road. Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-01-2025-0012. (SJR H index: 28. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.48).
  2. ✶Abbas, R & Court, D. (2024). Insider-outsider research, qualitative discovery, and the enhancement of social justice. The Qualitative Report, 20(11), 2750-2760. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2024.7427. (SJR H index: 56. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.5).
  3. ✶ Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. (2024). Educational implications of religions as moral systems: The example of Ramadan. Curriculum and Teaching, 39(2), 59-69. https://dio.org/10.7459/ct/390205  (SJR H Index 7, Ranking Q4 2024).
  4. ✶Abbas, R & Court, D. (2024). Academic publications – Everything you wanted to know. Daruna 51, 11-17. (In Hebrew)
  5. ✶ Abbas, R., Kamal, Z. & Heno, N. (2024). Perceptions and attitudes of educational teams towards treatment and prevention programs for the phenomenon of school violence Arab society, 50, 13-32, Daruna. (In Hebrew)
  6. ✶ Abbas, R., Pataki, S., Folberg, A., Juarez, C. & Ryan, C. (2023).  It’s hard to be everything at once: “Israeli Arab women balancing work, family and community roles. European Journal of Social Sciences Studies, 8(3), 47-66. DIO: 10.46827qejsss.v8i3.1396.
  7. ✶ Abbas, R. (2023).  Hosting an international conference in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: A reflection on leadership and learning. Journal for Multicultural Education. 17(4), 473-484. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-03-2023-0019 (SJR H Index 13, Ranking Q1 2022)
  8. ✶Abbas, R., Abu-Rahmon, N. & Khalifa, R. (2023).  Combined teaching strategies as an attitude changing tool towards inclusive education. Curriculum and Teaching, 38(2), 7-19. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/38.2.02 (SJR H Index 6, Ranking Q4 2023).
  9. ✶Sarid, M., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Abbas, R., & Dardick, W. (2022). The role of reading skills in statistical literacy among bilingual and native Hebrew-speaking college students. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 3361-3373. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2022.2052789 (SJR H index: 52, IF 2022 3.92, Ranking Q1 2021)
  10. ✶Abbas, R., Pataki, S., Folberg, A., Juarez, C. & Ryan, C. (2022). Separating gender role traditionalism from cultural traditionalism among Arab Israeli Women. Daruna 49, 14-20. (In Hebrew).
  11. ✶Abbas, R., & Vaknin-Nusbaum, V. (2021). Motivation and attitudes of Israeli Druze schoolchildren toward L2 Hebrew compared to Modern Standard Arabic. Pragmatics and Society, 12(4), 591-611. https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.18056.abb (SJR H index: 14, IF=0.75, Ranking Q2 2021)
  12. ✶Abbas, R., Abu Hanna, E., Zoabi, Kh., Marey-Sarwan, I., & Abu Ahmad, H. (2021). Real time experience of participants in higher education during the coronavirus: A case study. Curriculum and Teaching, 36(1), 51-70. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/36.1.05 (SJR H index: 5, Ranking Q4 2021)
  13. ✶Abbas, R., & Ilaiyan, S. (2021). Is there indeed a commitment in trainee teachers of Israel’s Arab sector to education for multiculturalism? Intercultural Education, 32(3), 311-325. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2021.1882943 (SJR H index: 24. Ranking Q1 2021)
  14. ✶Abbas, R., Gutermen, O., & Neumann, A. (2021). Why don’t Druze families homeschool? Religion and Spirituality in Society, 11(2), 191-200. https://doi.org/10.18848/2154-8633/CGP/v11i02/191-200 (SJR H index: 3, IF 2021 O.39, Ranking Q2 2021)
  15. ✶Abbas, R., (2020). How do school-based ceremonies contribute to adolescents’ identity design? A case study in two Druze high schools. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 15(3), 323-340 (18). https://doi.org/10.1386/ctl_00037_1 (SJR H index: 8, Ranking Q3, 2020)
  16. ✶Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2020). Inside out or outside in? On the issue of dress for teachers of religion, and the case of the Druze. Religious Education, 115(2), 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344087.2019.1639877 (SJR H index: 17, , IF=0.27, Ranking Q2 2021).
  17. Mongillo, G., Feola, D., Kaplan, R., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., & Abbas, R. (2019). Primary teachers’ use of communicative strategies for linguistically diverse learners: A cross-cultural case study. The Language and Literacy spectrum, 29 (1), 5 Ramahttps://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/lls/vol29/iss1/5
  18. Abbas, R., Pataki, S. P., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., & Ilaiyan, S. (2018). What do they want my life? The perception of parent – child relationships among Druze adolescents in Israel. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34(3), 261-281. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0743558418764088 (SJR. H index: 72. Ranking: Q1-Q2 IF= 0.7).
  19. Abbas, R., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Neuman, A., Mongillo, G., Feola, D., & Kaplan, R. (2018). The use of modern standard and spoken Arabic in math lessons: The case of a diglossic language. Culture and Education, 30(4), 730-765.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/11356405.2018.1519920 (SJR H index 12. Ranking Q2-Q3 – IF-0.29).
  20. Keller, T., Camardese., A., & Abbas, R. (2017). “We don’t talk about that here”: Teachers, religion, public elementary schools and the embodiment of silence, a national United States and Israel study. Journal of Childhood and Religion, 7, 1-41. https://mosaic.messiah.edu/edu_ed/27/
  21. Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2015). Future orientation in a traditional society: Higher education and the Israeli Druze. International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 5(3),4-17. (SJR H index: 4. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.14).
  22. Abbas, R. & Court, D. (2015). Two ethnographers embark on a narrative journey. The Qualitative Report, 20(9), 1448-1457. (SJR H index: 56. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.5).
  23. Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2014). Whose interview is it, anyway? Methodological and ethical challenges of insider-outsider research, multiple languages and dual- researcher cooperation. Qualitative Inquiry, 19(6), 480-488. (SJR H index: 59. Ranking: Q1, IF= 0.69).
  24. Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2014). Will education for tradition be enough in closing circle of secrets? Religious Education, 109(5), 489-506. (SJR H index: 20, Ranking: Q1, IF=0.31).
  25. Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2013). The location of professions curriculum: Heritage, Arabic literature, geography, “Shelah” (Field, Nationality and Society) and land knowledge, in designing the identity and deepening the level of citizenship among adolescent Druze: Ethnographic case study in two Druze schools. Dapim, Study and Research in Education, 55, 59-89. (Hebrew)
  26. Arar, H., Abbas, R., & Aodey, S. (2013). Who’s the manager? Role assistant manager at the Arab schools in Israel: Career, relationship and satisfaction. Studies in Educational Administration and Evaluation, 33, 9-34. (Hebrew).
  27. Abbas, R. (2012). The difference between students who learn in technical school and students who learn in regular school regarding the level of Arab self-estimation. Daruna, 41, 34-42. (Hebrew).
  28. Abbas, R. (2012). Cooperative learning, leading to academic achievement and personal development of relations between heterogeneous classes. Daruna, 40, 22-33. (Hebrew).
  29. Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2012). We cannot move forward unless we preserve us traditions: Women principals as leaders in Israel Druze society. Education and Society, 30(2), 67-82.
  30. Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2011). The view from the bridge: An Israeli Druze woman as guardian of religious tradition and agent of social change. International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, 1(1), 135-146. (SJR H index: 4. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.14).
  31. Abbas, R., & Nabwane, M. (2011). Individual learning and its contribution to the development of interaction between teacher and student at school – a case study among fifth grade students. Daruna, 40, 152-175. (Hebrew).
  32. Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2010). The role of Druze high schools in Israel in shaping students’ identity and citizenship. Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 5(2),145-162. (SJR H index: 30. Ranking: Q2, IF= 0.41).
    1. ✶ Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. (2025). The loss of deep reading and critical thinking in
  1. education. Curriculum and Teaching, 40(2), 111-120. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/400208. (SJR H Index 8, Ranking Q4 2024).

Accepted

    1. ✶ Abbas, R. (2026). Motivation to learn Hebrew as a second language, setting goals, and self-regulation in learning among Arab students studying for Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at a teacher training college.
      Accepted for publication in Heliyon (Q1).
    2. ✶ Abbas, R., (2026). “Some American women may perceive us as terrorists by the compulsion of our bearded husbands:” Education and the breaking of stereotypes.
      Accepted for publication in Educational Practice & Theory.
  1. iii. Submitted – Under review
    1. ✶ Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. K. (2026). Education and law: The views of education students in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college.
      Submitted to Qualitative Research in Education.
    2. Pataki, S.P., Abbas, R., Shaw, K. & Taha, I. (2025). Future hope: Dialogue between Israeli Arab and U.S. women.
      Submitted to Psychology of Women Quarterly (Q1).