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Fast, Idit – Sociology of Education, 2016
This study explores mechanisms underlying processes of educational policy formation. Previous studies have given much attention to processes of diffusion when accounting for educational policy formation. Less account has been given to the day-to-day institutional dynamics through which educational policies develop and change. Building on extensive…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Violence, School Safety
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Hebel, Orly; Persitz, Shoshana – International Journal of Special Education, 2014
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study is to achieve an understanding of the perceptions and experiences of Israeli parents of students with severe disabilities about their involvement in the Individual Education Program (IEP) process. Data collection in this study involved interviewing 20 parents whose children study in special…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Qualitative Research, Phenomenology
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Muszkat-Barkan, Michal – Journal of Jewish Education, 2015
The aim of this qualitative study is to describe teachers' perceptions and roles in prayer education in TALI day schools in Israel, using in-depth oral Interviews, written questionnaires and written materials of the schools' network. Two educational ideologies were identified: Belonging to the Jewish collective and Personal-spiritual ideology.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Religious Education, Judaism, School Prayer
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Toplak, Maggie E.; Sorge, Geoff B.; Flora, David B.; Chen, Wai; Banaschewski, Tobias; Buitelaar, Jan; Ebstein, Richard; Eisenberg, Jacques; Franke, Barbara; Gill, Michael; Miranda, Ana; Oades, Robert D.; Roeyers, Herbert; Rothenberger, Aribert; Sergeant, Joseph; Sonuga-Barke, Edmund; Steinhausen, Hans-Christoph; Thompson, Margaret; Tannock, Rosemary; Asherson, Philip; Faraone, Stephen V. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Objective: To examine the factor structure of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in a clinical sample of 1,373 children and adolescents with ADHD and their 1,772 unselected siblings recruited from different countries across a large age range. Hierarchical and correlated factor analytic models were compared separately in the ADHD and…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Siblings, Factor Structure, Adolescents
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Mizel, Omar – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Since the last few decades of the twentieth century, increased independence and autonomy of local schools through the implementation of school-based management (SBM) have become widespread in Western education. SBM is designed to operate within a more general framework of decentralisation of the educational authority. This research set out to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Institutional Autonomy, Elementary Schools, School Based Management
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Nasser, Ilham – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2011
This article is based on a study conducted at the first Arabic and Hebrew bilingual school in Israel (Neve-Shalom/Wahat-Alsalam--NSWAS). The article focuses on Jewish as well as Palestinian parents' perspectives and responses to survey questions and interviews conducted at the school. Parents named reasons for choosing the school, satisfaction…
Descriptors: Jews, Arabs, Bilingual Schools, Bilingual Education
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Eilam, Billie; Poyas, Yael – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2009
Why is it so challenging to provide pre-service teachers with adequate competence to cope with the complexity of the classroom context? Three key difficulties are frequently reported as reducing the effectiveness of teacher education programs: the construction of an integrated body of knowledge about teaching, the application of theories to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Learning Processes, Intervention
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Scheeringa, Michael S.; Zeanah, Charles H. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
This study examined posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and comorbid disorders in 70 preschool children (ages 3-6) and their caregivers following Hurricane Katrina. Children's rate of PTSD was 50.0% using age-modified criteria. The rate of PTSD was 62.5% for those who stayed in the city and 43.5% in those who evacuated. Of those with PTSD, 88.6%…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Caregivers, Preschool Children, Separation Anxiety