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Braude, Rita Zemach – Harvard Graduate School of Education Association Bulletin, 1976
Israeli schools, designed by Westerners, incorporate curriculum and instructional methods suited to Western children, although Oriental Jews constitute 60 percent of the population. Considered "disadvantaged" by policy-making Western Jews, humiliated Orientals disavow their rich, ancient heritage. A new plan aims to eliminate…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Images, Cultural Influences, Cultural Pluralism
Shmueli, Eliezer – 1984
Included in Israel's population is a culturally disadvantaged group comprised primarily of immigrants and their children from non-European backgrounds such as North African and Middle Eastern countries. This group has shown a lower level of educational achievement than their European counterparts, and a number of education and social policies have…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boarding Schools, Compensatory Education, Cultural Differences
Download full textIsraeli, Eitan; Tokatli, Rachel – 1989
Two adult education programs being conducted in Israel are described in the case studies in this packet. The first case study, by Eitan Israeli, describes a school for parents, teachers, and children established in the 1950s in a distressed moshav (cooperative agricultural settlement) to improve education for both parents and children. About 60…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
Passow, A. Harry – 1984
Various approaches to educating the gifted and talented around the world are illustrated through descriptive reviews of gifted education in selected countries, including: Australia; Poland; England, Scotland, and Wales; and Israel. Following these reviews is an examination of several issues in gifted education around the world. This examination…
Descriptors: Ability Identification, Acceleration (Education), Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Bernard Van Leer Foundation, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1990
Accounts of achievements in early childhood care and education in developing countries supplement a discussion of optimal programming. The document begins with background information on problems in educational provision and a rationale for a national focus on early education. Discussion then turns to: (1) parents as prime educators; (2)…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Day Care, Developing Nations
Eaton, Joseph W.; Chen, Michael – 1969
A case study was made of comprehensive efforts to get young people to identify with the core ideals of the parental generation through youth organizations in Israel, where over 90% of the adolescents report an active involvement in one or more of three nationwide programs: youth movements, sponsored by political parties and the Scouts; the…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Attitudes, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Youth
