Prof. Randa Khair-Abbas

College President

The Academic Arab College for Education in‮ ‬Israel‭, ‬Haifa

 

randaab@arabcol.ac.il

+972-4-9515543

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publications since last promotion- Sep 2014

 Ph.D. Dissertation

Abbas, R. (2007). The role of the school system in shaping the personality, identity and level of citizenship of its students: An ethnographic case study in two Druze high schools, Bar-Ilan University, 267 pages. (Hebrew).

Supervisors: Prof. Yaacov Iram & Dr. Deborah Court

Articles in Refereed Journals

A. Ph.D. Dissertation

Abbas, R. (2007). The role of the school system in shaping the personality, identity and level of citizenship of its students: An ethnographic case study in two Druze high schools, Bar-Ilan University, 267 pages. (Hebrew).

Supervisors: Prof. Yaacov Iram & Dr. Deborah Court

B.

  1. Scientific Books 

i.  Authored Books – Published

  1. ✶Court, D., & Abbas, R. (2022). Insider outsider research: new perspectives on method and meaning. London: Routledge.

This book received a positive review in the journal The Qualitative Report (Q1), 2023, 28(2),  https://doi.org.10.46743/2160-3715/2023.6190

  1. ✶Abbas, R., & Court, D. (2021). The Israeli Druze community in transition: Between tradition and modernity. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars.

ii.  Edited Books – Published

  1. ✶Court, D., Abbas, R., Abu Much, R., & Kamal, Z. (Eds.) (2023).  Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.
  2. ✶Court, D., Abbas, R., & Kamal, Z. (Eds.) (2022). Aspects of social justice in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: Principles, practices, and politics. Cambridge Scholars.

iii.  Edited Books – Accepted

  1. ✶Abbas, R. & Hamarshi, H. (2026). Lessons in leadership: The life and work of Zaki Kamal.
    Accepted for publication and scheduled for publication in 2026. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars.

C. Articles in Refereed Journals

i. Published

  1. ✶ Kamal, Z. & Abbas, R. (2025). The loss of deep reading and critical thinking in

education. Curriculum and Teaching, 40(2), 111-120. https://doi.org/10.7459/ct/400208. (SJR H Index 8, Ranking Q4 2024).

  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.

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  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. 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).
  4. 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).
  5. 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)
  6. 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).
  7. 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).
  8. Abbas, R. (2012). Cooperative learning, leading to academic achievement and personal development of relations between heterogeneous classes. Daruna, 40, 22-33. (Hebrew).
  9. 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.
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. 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).

ii. 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.

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).

  1. Articles in Preparation
  1. Halifa, R., Moros, W., Asadi, A., Rizek, S. Abulil, A. & Abbas, R. Exploring variability in language learning and study strategy implementation in Arab- Israeli elementary schools.
  2. Abbas, R.  The epistemology of knowing the other
  3. Salman, E., Kamal, Z., Hamarshi, H. & Abbas, R. Navigating the innovative digital frontier: The teacher’s role in the ethical implications, challenges, and opportunities of implementing AI in education.

  1. Articles or Chapters in Scientific Books 

i. Published

  1. ✶ Abbas, R. (2026). The qualitative eye: administration as cultural process in the Arab Israeli college. Accepted for publication in A. Akande (Ed.) Applied cross-cultural research today. Rethinking research across borders and nations. Chapter 20. Springer.
  2. ✶ Abbas, R. (2024). The community good as global education policy. In J. Zajda (Ed.) Globalisation, education, policy, and curricula Issues. Springer Nature. (pp.531-540). DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-67667-3_29
  3. ✶Abbas, R. (2023). Family communication styles and self-image of Israeli Druze adolescents: Implications for social justice. In D. Court, R. Abbas, R. Abu Much, & Z. Kamal Z. (Eds.) Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (pp. 365-377).
  4. ✶Abbas, R, Pataki, S. (2023). Diving into difference: Developing students’ understanding of diversity through personal reflection and active learning in the classroom In D. Court, R. Abbas, R. Abu Much, & Z. Kamal Z. (Eds.) Social justice in multicultural settings: International perspectives. Cambridge Scholars. (pp. 243-253).
  5. ✶Abbas, R. (2022). Social justice and academic integration among minorities: Two contradictory concepts? In D. Court, R. Abbas, & Z. Kamal (Eds.), Aspects of social justice in an Arab Israeli teachers’ college: Principles, practices and politics.  Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (pp. 19-28)
  6. Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Sabah, S., & Abbas, R. (2018). The contribution of morphological awareness in Arabic reading comprehension. In B. Makhoul & E. Olshtain, (Eds.). Development of language among Arabic speakers in a multilingual society (pp. 45-66).  MOFET Institute.
  7. Abbas, R., Ilaiyan, S., & Zedan, R. (2015). Trainees’ perceptions of multi-cultural education in the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel- Haifa. In Kh. Arar & E. Keinan (Eds.), Identity, narrative and multiculturalism in Arab education in Israel (pp. 265-298). Haifa: Pardes. (Hebrew).
  8. Ilaiyan, S., Toren, Z., & Abbas, R. (2017). Teacher training in the Arab sector in Israel: The story of the Arab Academic College of Education in Israel, Haifa. In. M. Ben-Peretz & S. Feiman-Nemser (Eds.), The role of ideology and political movements in designing teacher education programs (Chapter 3). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield with the MOFET institute.
  9. Abbas, R. (2017). Running between the raindrops: Research, culture, and my life in two worlds. In D. Court, Qualitative research and intercultural understanding: Conducting qualitative research in multicultural settings (pp. 93-97). Routledge.

ii    Accepted for Publication

  1. ✶ Abbas, R. & Kamal, Z. (2026). Dropout risk, school success and the complexities of multiculturalism: A comparison between Israeli Druze and Arab students.
    Accepted for publication in Z. Gross et al. (Eds.), Multiculturalism, diversity, and inclusion: Widening access and participation in Education. Information Age Publishing.
  2. ✶ Abbas, R. & Kamal, Z. (2026). Education, law and leadership: conceptual, religious, ethical and practical dimensions.
    Submitted to the 2nd edition of the International handbook of the religious, moral and spiritual dimensions in education, Eds. W. Mascitello, L. Gearon, Z. Gross, Y. Matemba, S. Poulter, H. Brendan, R. Wills. Springer Publishing

F. In Conference Proceedings

  1. Abbas & Court, D (2025). The contribution of insider-outsider research to social justice work. CICE: Canada International Conference on Education. https://ciceducation.org/cice-proceedings/
  2. ✶Abbas, R; Kamal, Z; Hamarshi, H & Esmael, S (2024). Reclaiming multiculturalism: An academic education college’s model for creative coexistence.  Submitted to Proceedings of The World Conference on Teaching, Learning, and Education.
  3. Abbas, R., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Goldberg Kaplan, R., Mongillo, G., & Feola, D. (2016). Primary teachers’ communicative strategies for linguistically diverse language learners: A cross-cultural case. AERA: American Educational Research Association. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED592258

H. Other Scientific Publications

Conference Booklet

  1. Abbas R. (Ed.), (2019). The teacher at the forefront of research – The first scientific conference of the thesis. The Conference Booklet, The Arab Academic College of Education. (Hebrew).

Published Research Reports

  1. ✶Abbas, R. K.; Abed-Algani, Y.; Shamma, F.; Musliy, A.; Prieva, K.(2025). Investigating the knowledge, usage, and attitudes of students in Kosovo, Israel and Jordan towards Artificial Intelligence. Ministry of Regional Cooperation, State of Israel.
  2. ✶ Sarid, M., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Raveh, M., Navo, E. & Abbas, R. K. (2023). Dropout of Arabic speaking students from academic studies in colleges: Identifying risk factors and the relationship between them. National Insurance Institute, State of Israel.
  3. ✶Abbas, R. (2022). The perception of the school by the students, socio-economic and demographic background and the risk factor for dropping out: A comparison between students in the Arab educational system and students in the Druze educational system. MOFET Institute, Tel-Aviv. In Hebrew.
  4. ✶Salman, E; Abbas, R (2022). Factors affecting the satisfaction and motivation of students in the M-Teach program in the following aspects: the training program, the practical experience and the pedagogical instructor. MOFET Institute, Tel-Aviv. In Hebrew
  5. ✶Abbas, R. (2022). Enriching language and literacy abilities in Druze kindergartens through the use of children’s books and parental guidance. The Center for Druze Heritage. In Arabic.
  6. Ilaiyan, S., Abbas, R., & Nahum, T. (2012). Communication patterns in a changing Druze community: Traditional parents versus adolescents exposed to post-modern society- a case study among Druze adolescents. MOFET Institute, Tel-Aviv. In Hebrew.
  7. Court, D., Abbas, R., & Walters, Y. (2012). Identity patterns and educational aspirations   among Druze adults and adolescents: inter-generational research on attitudes and perceptions. Report to the Chief Scientist, Israeli Ministry of Education. In Hebrew.

Other Publications

  1. Abbas, R. (2010). Druze women’s status in society- between tradition and progress. In S. Avivi (Ed.). Druze in Israel (pp. 26-29). Ramat Hasharon: Legacy Center for Intelligence (MLM.). (Hebrew).
  2. Abbas, R. (2009). Education in a multicultural society. In the 3rd Maalot-Tarshiha conference for coexistence life indicated from crisis to growth (pp. 57-59), Western Galilee Academic College, Maalot-Tarshiha Municipality. Conference book. (Hebrew).
  3. Abbas, R. (2009). The educational system in Israel, Paideia, pp. 1-7.
  4. Abbas, R. (2005). Factors affecting the school culture. Albustan, periodical on education, society and culture in the Druze and Circassians Sectors. Jerusalem: The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. (Hebrew).