Doctor Gal Levy
Nationality: Israel
Year: 1997
Subject Area: Social Sciences
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)A Lecturer in the MA programme in Democracy Studies at the Open University, Israel, Gal holds a BA (Political Science and Economics) and MA (Political Science) from Tel-Aviv University, and a PhD from the University of London (Government Department, LSE). His dissertation - titled, "Ethnicity and Education: Nation-Building, State-Formation and the construction of the Israeli Educational System" - offered a political-historical analysis of the formation of the Israeli educational system, and its relation to the development of ethnic relations. Being concerned with the development of the Israeli "ethnicised society", Gal is primarily occupied with research on the relationship between education, ethnicity and citizenship, and most recently, on the education of labour-migrant children and Arab education. His book manuscript, which is under review at CUP, is about the history of education and its implications for the construction of ethnic identities and relations in Israel. Gal published several articles on education, ethnicity and citizenship, and also on class- and ethnic-voting in the 2003 Israeli general elections, and is engaged in several research projects, independently and in collaboration with other researchers in Israel.