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"My Teacher Had an Accent Too": Immigrant Teachers' and Counselors' Role in Multicultural Development--Perspectives of Multilingual Israelis
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Putjata, Galina – Journal of Education, 2017
Transnational mobility across the world is opposed by a monocultural mind-set at school, which has led educational researchers across the world to call for a multilingual and multicultural turn. This article presents a qualitative study that investigates immigrant teachers' role in this transformation process. Framed by the specific historical…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Role, Biographies
Designing the Ideal School as a Transformative Process: An Approach to Promoting Teacher Identity in Pre-Service Teachers
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Zur, Ayala; Ravid, Rachel – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
This paper presents an approach to planning academic courses for pre-service teachers and for researching development of teacher identity. The approach was implemented in a course, conducted in an Israeli Master Teach program, designed to foster pre-service teacher identity transformation. The research described here addresses two questions: (1)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Professional Identity, Student Developed Materials
Moral Courage from the Perspective of Arab Teachers in Jewish Schools
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Baratz, Lea – Intercultural Education, 2016
The current study aims to call attention to the phenomenon of female Muslim Arab teachers teaching in Israeli Jewish schools. The study examined the manner in which these female Muslim Arab teachers perceived their integration into the milieu of the Jewish schools, based on their descriptions of the various processes they experience when dealing…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Moral Values, Females
Travelling Far--Drawing Closer: Journeys That Shape Identity
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Schatz-Oppenheimer, Orna; Kalnisky, Esther – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2014
This article presents findings from a qualitative narrative research study conducted during a journey to Ethiopia undertaken by graduates of an academic program in Israel in 2005. The study focuses on the significance of the journey as a process that helped reconstruct their identity. During the journey, twelve Ethiopian education graduates were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, College Graduates, Travel
The Construction of Masculine Identity among Men Who Work with Young Children, an International Perspective
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Brody, David L. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2015
Because professionalism in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is measured by standards relating to caring, men in the field are often held to expectations associated with female behaviors. This research examines the tensions arising from this encounter and explores alternative solutions which male ECEC workers around the world have…
Descriptors: Males, Masculinity, Self Concept, Preschool Teachers
Personal Professional Trajectories of Novice and Experienced Teacher Educators in a Professional Development Community
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Brody, David L.; Hadar, Linor L. – Teacher Development, 2015
Experience in the workforce influences teacher educators' responses to professional development efforts for adapting new practices. This study examines trajectories of novices and experienced teacher educators in a three-year longitudinal professional development community focused on infusing thinking into college teaching. A four-stage trajectory…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development