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Rachamim, Mirit; Orland-Barak, Lily – Oxford Review of Education, 2016
We present findings from an in-depth study on a school-based multi-disciplinary learning community in the context of practice teaching in university pre-service education. We elaborate on one of the three predominant patterns of talk identified, the "star" pattern, and show how it created particular power relations in the discourse which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communities of Practice, College Faculty, Discourse Analysis
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Bielik, Tom; Yarden, Anat – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: Asking questions is an important scientific practice, and students around the world are expected to learn how to ask their own research questions while performing inquiry. In contrast to authentic scientific inquiry, in most simple inquiry tasks that are carried out in schools, the research questions are given to the students. Here, we…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Biotechnology, Inquiry, Secondary School Science
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Shashoua, Ayala; Court, Deborah – Curriculum and Teaching, 2016
This qualitative study investigated a 'personal education' program that operates in some middle schools in Israel. This article focuses on three teachers in three different Jewish Israeli middle schools, and their students, and the intrapersonal and interpersonal teaching and learning processes in their classrooms. The theories of Dewey, Piaget…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Qualitative Research, Teaching Methods
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Avissar, Gilada; Licht, Perach; Vogel, Gila – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Using Critical Discourse Analysis, this study aims to elicit and expose the perceptions and attitudes of different policy makers in leadership positions at the Ministry of Education in Israel with regard to inclusion. The first stage of the research consisted of individual in-depth semi-structured interviews (N = 8). In the second stage the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Inclusion, Educational Policy
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Becher, Ayelet; Orland-Barak, Lily – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
This study suggests an integrative qualitative methodological framework for capturing complexity in mentoring activity. Specifically, the model examines how historical developments of a discipline direct mentors' mediation of professional knowledge through the language that they use. The model integrates social activity theory and a framework of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Discourse Analysis, Art Education, Teaching Methods