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Hantman, Shira; Gimmon, Eli – Educational Gerontology, 2014
The purpose of this article is to describe a project that aims to foster active aging through entrepreneurial activities among older adults. The project establishes the feasibility of implementing an intervention program that assimilates the concept and capabilities of entrepreneurship among older adults and supports them while launching new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Aging (Individuals), Entrepreneurship, Older Adults
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Winstok, Zeev; Straus, Murray A. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
This study addresses the intended escalatory tendency in eight hypothetical situations in which the provocator's identity (partner or stranger, male or female) and the provocation form (verbal or physical aggression) were manipulated. The research question is "how does the identity of the provocator and the form of his or her provocation…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Intention, Risk
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Gavish, Bella; Friedman, Isaac A. – Educational Studies, 2011
This study introduces a model of novice teachers' expectations together with supporting empirical evidence. The model is sectorial, distinguishing novice teachers' expectations according to their reciprocal relations with their partners in the school. The study investigated 237 teachers attending internship programmes at five large teachers…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Beginning Teacher Induction
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Malach-Pines, Ayala; Kaspi-Baruch, Oshrit – Career Development International, 2008
Purpose: The paper addresses the influence of culture and gender on the choice of a management career among men and women MBA students in Israel, the USA, the UK, Turkey, Cyprus, Hungary and India. The culture by gender comparison enabled an examination of five theories: two that focused on culture (Hofstede's and an application of Schneider's ASA…
Descriptors: Managerial Occupations, Females, Career Choice, Cultural Differences
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Sajaniemi, J.; Ben-Ari, M.; Byckling, P.; Gerdt, P.; Kulikova, Y. – Computer Science Education, 2006
Roles can be assigned to occurrences of variables in programs according to a small number of stereotypical patterns of use. Studies on explicitly teaching roles to novices learning programming have shown that roles are an excellent pedagogical tool for clarifying the structure and meaning of programs and that their use improves students'…
Descriptors: Programming, Predictor Variables, Role Perception, Role Theory