Summary
Education inspector for the Southern district under the Mandate whose history of Mandate education and whose report on education in the Southern district (February 1941–October 1945, submitted 1 May 1946) Feldman uses as a central source on schooling and nationalism in Gaza (Governing Gaza, PDF p.224, p.226, p.264).
Details
- Tibawi recorded nationalist complaints about the Mandate curriculum in his history of Mandate education: it “insisted in its content and tone on the international rather than the national character of Palestine”, so the Arab boy or girl was taught far less about the history of his nation and the geography of the Arab countries than the average Iraqi or the Palestinian Jewish child under a national, independent system (PDF p.224 / printed p.207).
- In his report on education during the latter Mandate years, Tibawi held that strikes in schools, negligible from 1940 to 1944, became unstoppable with the resumption of political activity: “Penalties of suspension, expulsion or payment of fines proved of no avail in dealing with pupils. Warnings and withholding of increment of salary was likewise useless in dealing with teachers.” (PDF p.226 / printed p.209).