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Compassion in Urban Teaching: Process, Arenas, and Factors
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Oplatka, Izhar; Gamerman, Orit – Urban Education, 2021
The current explorative study aimed at understanding the subjective meanings of "compassion" in teaching and its process and determinants. Based on 14 semi-structured interviews with teachers who are considered by their colleague to be compassionate, it was found that compassion consists of two phases--identification and compassionate…
Descriptors: Altruism, Teacher Behavior, Identification, Teacher Background
Empathy Regulation among Israeli School Principals: Expression and Suppression of Major Emotions in Educational Leadership
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Oplatka, Izhar – Journal of School Leadership, 2017
The present study aimed to trace the ways by which Israeli principals manage their emotions at work and posed two questions: (1) How do principals tend to express empathy toward others in the school? and (2) How do principals regulate their empathy at work? Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 Israeli school principals, it was found that…
Descriptors: Principals, Foreign Countries, Empathy, Self Control
The Components and Determinants of Preschool Teacher Organisational Citizenship Behaviour
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Oplatka, Izhar; Stundi, Masada – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the components and determinants of preschool teacher organisational citizenship behaviours (OCB), i.e. role behaviours that are discretionary, unrewarded and beyond formal-role expectations. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 12 Israeli kindergarten teachers and four supervisors participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Role
Organizational Citizenship Behavior in Teaching: The Consequences for Teachers, Pupils, and the School
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Oplatka, Izhar – International Journal of Educational Management, 2009
Purpose: Professionals and employees have been documented to perform a wide variety of extra-role activities (also called organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB)) for which they are neither paid, nor obliged to accomplish by superiors. The paper aims to obtain greater understanding of the consequences of teacher OCB to the teachers who perform…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Altruism, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Experience
Managing Emotions in Teaching: Toward an Understanding of Emotion Displays and Caring as Nonprescribed Role Elements
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Oplatka, Izhar – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Much research has sought to investigate emotions and forms of emotion management among teachers worldwide, including the connection between educational change and teacher emotion; the association between the culture of teaching and teachers' emotional experience within parent-teacher interactions; the link between teacher emotion and…
Descriptors: Research Design, Jews, Altruism, Elementary Secondary Education
Going beyond Role Expectations: Toward an Understanding of The Determinants and Components of Teacher Organizational Citizenship Behavior
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Oplatka, Izhar – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Purpose: To fill the gap in theoretical and empirical knowledge on the patterns of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) in school, the aim of this study was to explore the components of teacher OCB as well as its personal and contextual determinants. Research Design: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 50 schoolteachers, 10…
Descriptors: Teaching Conditions, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Role, Interviews