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Tieken, Mara Casey – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
Cross-sector collaborations can generate the resources and political will necessary to tackle urgent, complex issues. Because these partnerships involve local leaders, they are typically responsive to their surrounding communities, addressing local concerns, and capitalizing upon local assets. These strengths-oriented, locally driven…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Local Issues, Local Norms, Group Dynamics
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Katriel, Tamar; Nesher, Pearla – Comparative Education Review, 1986
In Israeli school culture, the school class is a social group in which "gibush" or cohesion is cultivated. A highly cohesive class has clearly demarcated boundaries, has high integration, is internally undifferentiated, and presupposes particular conditions for formation. The gibush model reflects an ideal of communal participation and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classrooms, Educational Objectives, Educational Practices
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Snarey, John – Comparative Education Review, 1987
A longitudinal ethnographic study of adolescent moral development in an Israeli kibbutz examined the process by which urban-born adolescents, "adopted" by the kibbutz, and their kibbutz-born peers are socialized into a cohesive group. Kibbutz educators support the development of democratic self-governing peer groups that foster community…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
Greeley, Andrew M. – 1969
This book focuses on a position contrary to the melting pot theory: namely, that group identity persists in America today. Discussed are the nature of ethnicity, the origins of various ethnic groups, the assimilation rate of ethnic groups, competition between ethnic groups, group differences, and the future of ethnic groups. The author…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Demography, Ethnic Distribution, Ethnic Grouping
Tomasi, Silvano M., Ed.; Engel, Madeline H., Ed. – 1970
Questions of group identity, power, and organization are being increasingly recognized as crucial for an understanding of the American scene. Very little attention has been given to Italo-Americans in social science literature, perhaps because of cultural and linguistic barriers to research on their adjustment in this society. Four main sections…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Cultural Pluralism, Culture, Ethnic Grouping