Citations with the tag: EDUCATION -- Israel
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- The Anne Frank Haven in an Israeli kibbutz.
Dror, Yuval // Adolescence; Fall95, Vol. 30 Issue 119, p617Describes the moral-developmental research at the Anne Frank Haven in an Israeli kibbutz. Education program for coping with multicultural and integration problems; Anne Frank Haven's contribution to the just community approach; Community education as a direction for moral and values education...
- Ecology, childhood experiences, and adult attachment styles of women in the kibbutz.
Sharabany, Ruth; Mayseless, Ofra; Edri, Gilat; Lulav, Doron // International Journal of Behavioral Development; May2001, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p214The present study exploited a "natural experiment" which covered variations in child-rearing conditions within the communal setting of the Israeli kibbutz. The long-term effects of these variations and of childhood experiences on attachment styles of adults were examined. Three groups of mothers...
- Readers Respond.
Hiyyah, Reb Zalman; Mendes, Philip; Stolow, David; Wright, Barry; Duran, Claudio; Gold, Mitch; Snider-Light, Penny Joy // Tikkun; Nov/Dec2009, Vol. 24 Issue 6, p3Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in September-October 2009 issue including "A Non-Dualist View of God," by Jay Michaelson, "Israel's Campus Critics," by David Theo Goldberg and Saree Makdisi and an article on Gaza and Rwanda by Alice Walker.
- Education in East Jerusalem.
Qaymari, Ata // Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture; 2011, Vol. 17 Issue 1/2, p83The article presents the author's views regarding the education system condition in East Jerusalem. The author mentions the ailing condition of the education in the city, where there are about 35,000 Palestinian students have not been able to obtain free education. The author cites the lack of...
- "Proud Palestinian" Archbishop Bias Chacour Seeks Friendship and Solidarity in U.S.
Adas, Jane // Washington Report on Middle East Affairs; Aug2012, Vol. 31 Issue 5, p32The article reports on the U.S. speaking tour of Archbishop Bias Chacour, who identified himself as a proud Palestinian Arab Christian, wherein he sought for friendship and solidarity. Chacour's career background shows his accomplishments in the village of Ibillin, Israel particularly in...
- Life&Times.
Adas, Jane // New Jersey Jewish News; 2/23/2012, Vol. 66 Issue 8, p27A calendar of events for the U.S. in February 2012 is presented which includes the Israel Education Mini-Course on February 26, Judaism and the Koran: A Text Study and Discussion on February 27, and Camp Open House on February 29.
- Familiar School Challenges in Israel.
DOMENECH, DANIEL A. // School Administrator; Feb2011, Vol. 68 Issue 2, p42A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience visiting Israel, as part of a program run by the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) and the American-Israel Friendship League, in order to meet with school and government officials about education issues...
- Children Raised On the Kibbutz In Israel: A Critical Evaluation.
Kaffman, Mordecai; Cohen, Norman J. // Clinical Pediatrics; Mar1968, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p141This article presents a concise evaluation of some aspects of the collective method of child-rearing and education in the kibbutz in Israel. It is noted that the kibbutz system of upbringing has been planned to fulfill the interests, needs, social ideology and goals of life within the commune as...
- Social Education--Bridging Between Education and Social Systems: Owen's Utopian Education and Kibbutz Education Today--A Comparison.
Dror, Yuval // Utopian Studies; 1994, Vol. 5 Issue 2, p87Compares the utopian education of Robert Owen with the contemporary communal utopian society, particularly the kibbutz of Israel. Theoretical basis for comparative educational research; Views on the transition between education and social systems; Social education and educational systems in the...
- Cultural conflicts in mathematics classrooms and resolution -- The case of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union and Israeli "Old timers.".
Amit, Miriam // Montana Mathematics Enthusiast; 2010, Vol. 7 Issue 2/3, p263This paper describes a singular process that has been transforming mathematics education in Israel over the past 20 years, as a result of a massive influx of mathematics teachers from the former Soviet Union (FSU). It traces the key points of conflict that marked the initial contact between...
- 'Whose responsibility is it?': The third sector and the educational system in Israel.
Eden, Devorah // International Review of Education / Internationale Zeitschrift f; Feb2012, Vol. 58 Issue 1, p35This study aims to explore the relationships between the third sector and the educational system in Israel in light of their current increasing involvement with one another. This was investigated along four stages of the policy process ranging from initial agenda-setting to final implementation....
- Local gift secures the future of a kibbutz library.
Hoffman, Gil // New Jersey Jewish News; 9/6/2012, Vol. 66 Issue 36, p14The article focuses on the future of kibbutz library donated by the Murnick family of New Jersey at Kibbutz Erez. The Murnick family attends the dedication of a new library facility built in memory of the state philanthropist Ted Murnick. Amir Shacham of the Jewish Federation of Greater...
- Constructing Literate Israelis: A Critical Analysis of Adult Literacy Texts.
Schely-Newman, Esther // Israel Studies; Summer2010, Vol. 15 Issue 2, p196Literacy in the national language is a necessary skill particularly for migrants. State institutions regulate the acquisition of linguistic resources as a way of controlling and distributing citizenship rights. It follows that programs and texts for teaching immigrants may serve as conduits for...
- Immigrant and Veteran Teachers of the 1948 Generation: As Socialization Agents of the New State.
Tadmor-Shimoni, Tali // Israel Studies; Fall2011, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p97Among Israel's socialization agents during its first years were teachers who were sent off everywhere where there were children of compulsory school age. The majority of the teachers teaching in the periphery lacked pedagogical training. They were recruited by the Ministry of Education owing to...
- Israel's economic strategy.
Tadmor-Shimoni, Tali // OECD Observer; May2011, Issue 284, p16An interview with Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Finance in Israel, is presented. He cites the rising competition in Israeli exports, the unsatisfactory performances in education, and the high level of income inequality as the main economic challenges in the country. According to Steinitz, Israel...
- THE ROAD FROM BUCHENWALD.
Lawrence Lader // New Republic; 9/20/48, Vol. 119 Issue 12, p16Reports that in Israel 100 survivors of Nazi concentration camps are planting a new home at Beer Ya'aqov. Construction of an agricultural cooperative, known in Israel as a kibbutz; Details of loan given by the Department of Settlement to kibbutz; Discussion on the education policy which the...
- Holocaust education in Jewish schools in Israel: Goals, dilemmas, challenges.
Gross, Zehavit // Prospects (00331538); Mar2010, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p93Research has shown the Holocaust to be the primary component of Jewish identity (Farago in Yahadut Zmanenu 5:259�285, ; Gross in Influence of the trip to Poland within the framework of the Ministry of Education on the working through of the Holocaust. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Ben-Gurion...
- Mish'ol: An Urban Kibbutz.
Metcalf, Bill // Communities; Winter2010, Issue 149, p57The article profiles the Kibbutz Mish'ol in Israel, which has been practicing Shabbat, e ceremony that observes the Sabbath Day. It was in 2000 that Kibbutz Mish'ol was first established by 25 people as they live under the shared way of life and tradition of kibbutzim. Kibbutz Mish'ol has...
- SEPARATE BUT NOT EQUAL.
Kraft, Dina // Moment Magazine; Sep/Oct2010, Vol. 35 Issue 5, p32The article offers information on the condition of segregated Arab schools in Israel. The author informs about the inequality prevailing in Jaljulia Education and Science High School and its inadequate infrastructure. The aspirations of students are also discussed. It states that some rich and...
- Individual Values, Organizational Commitment, and Participation in a Change: Israeli Teachers' Approach to an Optional Educational Reform.
Cohen, Aaron; Caspary, Lilach // Journal of Business & Psychology; Sep2011, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p385Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine how individual values and organizational commitment are related to teachers' participation in an optional change program in the Israeli educational system. Design/Methodology/Approach: Data were obtained from 214 Israeli teachers employed in 25...
- The Israeli Ulpanim.
Schiavone, James // Education; Oct1966, Vol. 87 Issue 2, p117The article describes the Upanim, special schools in which the Israeli government teaches Hebrew to Israel's many immigrants. The philosophy of the Ulpan seeks to enable all immigrants to develop an understanding of modern Israeli culture and to develop values which are important to the people...
- THE KIBBUTZ AND HIGHER EDUCATION: CULTURES IN COLLISION?
Gamaon, Zelda F. // Jewish Sociology & Social Research; Fall/Winter1975, Vol. 2 Issue 1, p10The article offers a critical look on Israel-based kibbutz with respect to higher education. According to the author, there was an tremendous increase in the number of kibbutzniks studying at institutions of higher learning in Israel and abroad. He discloses that kibbutz students tend to be more...
- Israel education has gains and challenges.
Gamaon, Zelda F. // New Jersey Jewish News; 1/3/2013, Vol. 67 Issue 1, p18The article focuses on the issues related to scenario of school education in Israel. It mentions that Israeli Education Ministry urged teachers to focus their classes on the international tests and develop precise lesson plans and curriculums as an effort to improve performance. It also says...
- COMPUTERIZED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING - HOW TO PREPARE PRE-SERVICE STUDENT TEACHERS!
Salman, Esmael; Najjar, Zuhaira; Zidan, Wafa // ICICTE 2012 Proceedings; 2012, p476Computerized Collaborative Learning (CCL) is a collaborative dialogue between learners to achieve a product through reconstructing knowledge for the production of a jointly cognitive outcome using various services of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) tools. This study examines the...
- THE PLANNER'S VIEW: When a little chutzpah goes a long, long way.
Salman, Esmael; Najjar, Zuhaira; Zidan, Wafa // Corporate Adviser; Dec2010, p8The author discusses on the success of Israel in terms of political, education, or military service. The author states that Israel is one of the world's highest-performing educational systems despite of its tiny land mass and lack of natural resources. The author is also critical on the...
- The Brandeis Effect.
Salman, Esmael; Najjar, Zuhaira; Zidan, Wafa // Time; 7/5/1971, Vol. 98 Issue 1, p60The article offers information on the Brandeis Institute, said to be a unique American institution dedicated to impart religious education among secular Jews. In the first week of July 1971, the institute has started its 31st summer session with the first batch of about 500 youngsters who will...
- Improvisational Teaching as Mode of Knowing.
SHEM-TOV, NAPHTALY // Journal of Aesthetic Education; Fall2011, Vol. 45 Issue 3, p103The essay explores the pedagogical use of theatrical improvisation as a practical device to improve the teaching of theater. Topics include the use of theatrical improvisation to incorporate unanticipated responses from students, the author's experience teaching a dance-theater education program...
- ISRAEL Beyond Programming.
Brilliant, Joshua // ASEE Prism; Feb2011, Vol. 20 Issue 6, p31The article discusses a program by Israeli schools that is aimed at boosting children's passion for and understanding of computer science. Judith Gal-Ezer of the Open University of Israel who is one of the program's designers contends that students should also know the entire way of computer...
- Developing Environrnental Control.
Haas, Malka // Art Education; Feb78, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p20The article discusses some happenings taking place in the workyard of an Israeli Kibbutz children's house. The workyard is full of junk and contains big and small objects that are movable in enriching dynamically the children's activity. It nurtures the foundation of all learning and encourages...
- Productivization, Economics and the Transformation of Israeli Education, 1948-1965.
Molcho, Avner // Israel Studies; Fall2011, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p123In more or less a single decade, the common view in Israel regarding the relation between education and the economy underwent a radical shift. Academic secondary schooling, which was commonly and explicitly depicted as economically harmful, became the consensual goal of educational policy. This...
- CULTURAL HEGEMONY, RESISTANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY AMONG PALESTINIAN STUDENTS IN ISRAEL.
Makkawi, Ibrahim // Arab Studies Quarterly; Fall2008, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p23In this essay the author focuses on the experience of the Palestinians who came under Israeli control in 1948 as well as the Palestinians' struggle to preserve their national identity despite what the author claims are efforts of Israel to create a state of hegemony through the control of the...
- The Role of an Archivist in Shaping Collective Memory on Kibbutz. Through her Work on the Photographic Archive.
Perlman, Edna Barromi // Journal of Visual Literacy; Spring2011, Vol. 30 Issue 1, p1An archivist from a kibbutz in the north of Israel has been managing the kibbutz archive for close to a decade. I have chosen to present her enterprise and the role she is playing by means of her archival work, which is changing the historiography of her kibbutz. The archivist at the kibbutz in...
- Stanley Fischer: 'There Are Problems Out There'.
Ephron, Dan // Newsweek (Atlantic Edition); 1/10-1/17/2011, Vol. 157 Issue 2/3, p3An interview with economist Stanley Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, is presented. Fischer denies the speculation about the link of his initiative to increase the foreign currency level of Israel to 70 billion U.S. dollars to the probability of having a war with Iran. He explains the...
- creating art, creating identity: Under-privileged pupils in art education challenge critical pedagogy practices.
Markovich, Dalya Yafa; Rapoport, Tamar // International Journal of Education through Art; Mar2013, Vol. 9 Issue 1, p7Studies in the field of education in general, and in art education in particular, point to the contribution of critical pedagogy to the identity empowerment of pupils from an underprivileged socio-class background. Most of the studies conducted so far have examined in detail the...
- Teaching the Shoah in History Classes in Israeli High Schools.
Gil, Idit // Israel Studies; Summer2009, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p1The Shoah is the only subject in the school curriculum that is anchored in the 1980 Compulsory State Educational Law, and is therefore an important integral part in the school history curriculum. Since the Shoah is part of the Israeli collective memory and has a substantial presence in its...
- Incompatibility.
Gil, Idit // Time; 2/26/1951, Vol. 57 Issue 9, p34The article reports on the failure of a coalition government comprised of Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's Mapai Party and a bloc of four orthodox religious parties. It was agreed that the coalition partners would make foreign affairs their priority, but the religious block began asking...
- Teaching the Shoah in History Classes in Israeli High Schools.
Gil, Idit // Israel Studies; Summer2009, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p1The Shoah is the only subject in the school curriculum that is anchored in the 1980 Compulsory State Educational Law, and is therefore an important integral part in the school history curriculum. Since the Shoah is part of the Israeli collective memory and has a substantial presence in its...
- We Israelis Remember, But How? The Memory of the Holocaust and the Israeli Experience.
Ofer, Dalia // Israel Studies; Summer2013, Vol. 18 Issue 2, p70The article explores the effects of the Jewish Holocaust of 1939-1945 on Israeli culture, collective memory, and historical self-understanding. Particular focus is given to the development of public and individual methods of commemorating the Holocaust and remembering its lessons. The author...
- RESISTING 'ISRAELIZATION': THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN ISRAEL AND THE REALIZATION OF ISLAMIZATION, PALESTINIZATION AND ARABIZATION.
ROSMER, TILDE // Journal of Islamic Studies; Sep2012, Vol. 23 Issue 3, p325The article focuses on the Islamic Movement in the Jewish state of Israel and how it has attempted to promote an Arab Palestinian Muslim identity. The author discusses how educational and religious institutions have attempted to teach Palestinians in Israel the history of Islam, explores...
- What Durkheim and the fathers of kibbutz education took from Rousseau: a dilemma analysis comparing tire evolution of educational thought in France and Israel.
Dror, Yuval // Durkheimian Studies; 1996, Vol. 2, p133The presents a comparison on the influence of Jean Jacques Rousseau's educational theory on French sociologist Emile Durkheim and Mordecai Segal, one of the founders of Kibbutz education in Israel. The several reasons cited for the comparison include the importance of the changes in educational...
- COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT FROM THE MARGIN: ZIONISM AND THE CASE OF THE PALESTINIAN STUDENT MOVEMENT IN THE ISRAELI UNIVERSITIES.
Makkawi, Ibrahim // Arab Studies Quarterly; Spring2013, Vol. 35 Issue 2, preceding p91The article discusses community engagement and political activism within Israeli's colonial community from the 1920s through the early 2010s, through examining the Palestinian Student Movement in Israeli universities. The relationship between the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the social...
