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Leshem, Shosh; Carmel, Rivi; Badash, Merav; Topaz, Beverley – Educational Practice and Theory, 2023
The article examines the second career teachers (SCTs) socialisation into school culture through three theoretical lenses: Bronfenbrenner's ecological framework of human development, to identify the different environments within school culture that play a role in SCTs perceptions of their socialisation, Lave and Wenger's theory of Legitimate…
Descriptors: Career Change, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Goldratt, Miri; Cohen, Eric H. – Educational Practice and Theory, 2016
This article explores encounters between formal, informal, and non-formal education and the role of mentor-educators in creating values education in which such encounters take place. Mixed-methods research was conducted in Israeli public schools participating in the Personal Education Model, which combines educational modes. Ethnographic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonformal Education, Case Studies, Mentors
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BenDavid-Hadar, Iris – Educational Practice and Theory, 2012
Performance-pay as an educational policy is currently discussed both in research and in public debate. The principal agent theory application to an education system views teachers as more altruistic than opportunistic, and therefore affected by intrinsic rather than extrinsic motivations. An extensive amount of research has been published on the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Merit Pay, Teacher Salaries, Academic Achievement