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Liat Shklarski – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2024
The ultra-Orthodox Jewish community is characterized by its strict religious observance and is a relatively self-secluding group existing as an enclave system. In the last few decades, a growing number of ultra-Orthodox Jews have pursued social work degrees. Social work is a profession that shares many of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community's…
Descriptors: Social Work, Jews, Judaism, Religious Cultural Groups
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Barth, Anat; Trachtengot, Itschak – Religious Education, 2022
The Israeli ultra-Orthodox community is a segregated religious minority suffering from poverty, yet its youth do not receive financial education. This mixed-method research explores the effectiveness of a financial education program for affianced ultra-Orthodox men. 11 interviewees answered qualitative questionnaires, and 201 program graduates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Judaism, Religious Education
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Masarwah Srour, Afnan; Ziv, Talee; Aldinah, Samar; Dawud, Mahmud; Sternberg, Michael; Sagy, Shifra – Intercultural Education, 2022
This article explores changes in children's openness towards kindergarten teachers and children of an outgroup following participation in an intervention program. The program was implemented by kindergarten teachers and aimed at encountering the other via intergroup contact. The findings are based on qualitative data from interviews with the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Intervention
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Lavy, Shiri – AERA Open, 2022
The two studies presented here examine the effects of teachers' enhanced sense of meaning at work (SOM) on their burnout and engagement. In the first study, 41 teachers in two Arab schools were randomly assigned to a meaning-induction group--in which they were prompted daily to acknowledge meaningful incidents at work for 2 weeks or to a control…
Descriptors: Teacher Burnout, Teaching Conditions, Arabs, Jews
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Tamir, Eran – New Educator, 2021
This paper intends to demonstrate how within the current contentious environment for teacher education in the U.S., two small teacher preparation programs conducted a voluntary coordinated long-term self-evaluation study, that partially responded to external accountability pressures by the Federal administration, state agencies and various private…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Accountability, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Benjamin Madsen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The present study investigated the mental health needs of a Modern Orthodox Jewish High School. The researcher sought to find out what types of emotional, social, and behavioral issues students present in a Modern Orthodox High School, what types of strategies and interventions are currently being used to address these issues, and how effective…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Student Needs, Health Needs, High School Students
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Masry-Herzallah, Asmahan – European Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The research investigated whether there is a correlation between participation in a course entitled "Diversity and multiculturalism in the global era" as perceived by Jewish and Arab students in Israel and a change in the students' attitudes and behaviors and their performance of activities in a multicultural context in the education…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Cultural Pluralism, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach
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Reingold, Matt – Journal of Jewish Education, 2021
A Jewish high school adopted different models of online Zoom learning for the 2020-2021 schoolyear; research was conducted in two Israel studies classes that taught the same content, but one class was fully online and the other was a blended learning environment. The purpose of the study was to understand whether meaningful learning can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Online Courses, Videoconferencing
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Tal, Clodie; Tish, Sigal; Tal, Pninat – Pedagogical Research, 2022
The goal of this study was to learn about parental perceptions of their preschool and elementary school children with respect to relations with the teachers and various aspects of distance learning used during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Israel. Research was carried out in the summer of 2020 among 602 parents, comprising a representative sample…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Preschool Education, Preschool Children