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Menachem, Audrey – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Jewish day schools in the United States face a shortage of qualified early-career teachers. This may be largely related to the rate at which they leave the profession within the first five years. Working conditions, especially those that provide more academic and emotional support, opportunities to develop teaching skills, and opportunities for…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Mentors, Job Satisfaction, Faculty Mobility
Genut, Sara; Kolikant, Yifat Ben-David – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2017
Aim/Purpose: Our research focuses on a unique group of students who study computer science (CS): ultra-orthodox Jewish men. Their previous education is based mostly on studying Talmud and hence they lacked a conventional high-school education. Our research goal was to examine whether their prior education is merely a barrier to their CS studies or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Science Education, Males, Jews
Reingold, Matt – Social Studies, 2017
The following article presents data from a mixed-methods practitioner research study that focuses on understanding how Jewish secondary students learned about controversial topics in Israel's history and how these topics impacted their connection to the country. The responses that were provided by the students showed that the material forced…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Jews, Secondary School Students
Aflalo, Ester – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Understanding the nature of science (NOS) is one of the challenging objectives in science education due, in part, to the complex relationship between religion and science. This study examines how NOS teaching affects the perception of the NOS amongst religious, as compared to secular, students. The participants included 205 religious and secular…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Religion, Student Attitudes, Jews
Ben-David Kolikant, Yifat; Genut, Sara – Computer Science Education, 2017
In line with the growing interest in extending the diversity of CS students, we examined the performance of a unique group of students studying an introductory course in Digital logic: ultraorthodox Jewish men, whose previous education was based mostly on studying Talmud and who lacked a conventional high-school education. We used questions from…
Descriptors: Jews, Males, Prior Learning, Computer Science Education
Sasson, Devorah Grosser – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study examined principals' perceptions of their instructional leadership behavior. It incorporates a mixed-methodology and explored principals' perceptions of instructional leadership as defined by Hallinger and Murphy (1985). The perceptions of male and female principals' instructional leadership behaviors were compared. In addition, other…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Instructional Leadership, Jews
Shaw, Alan – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2017
Voluntary-aided faith schools exhibit a unique combination of characteristics that is not shared by other state-funded schools in England including responsibility for admissions, employment of staff (including the right to prioritise on the basis of faith), control of the RE curriculum, ownership of the premises, and funding from and being part of…
Descriptors: Catholics, Jews, Instructional Leadership, Volunteers
Levi-Keren, Michal – Cogent Education, 2016
This study explains mathematical difficulties of students who immigrated from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) vis-à-vis Israeli students, by identifying the existing bias factors in achievement tests. These factors are irrelevant to the mathematical knowledge being measured, and therefore threaten the test results. The bias factors were identified…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Tests, Immigrants, Interviews
Yemini, Miri; Yardeni-Kuperberg, Oria; Natur, Nazie – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2015
This study reveals the views of future teachers from Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian-Arab communities regarding the desired school history curricula. We applied a quantitative and qualitative survey to a sample of 528 students studying in teachers' preparation programmes in three higher education institutions: one research university with a large…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Conflict, Jews, Arabs
Tannenbaum, Michal; Cohen, Hagit – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2017
This paper studies one ultra-Orthodox group--Habad community, exploring its members' attitudes towards four languages: Hebrew, Loshen Koydesh (LK), English, and Yiddish, and focusing on usage, affection for the language, ascribed importance, and holiness. Research questions were: (1) What are the attitudes of Habad members towards these languages?…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Semitic Languages, Questionnaires, Semi Structured Interviews
Novis-Deutsch, Nurit; Lifshitz, Chen – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
The integration of highly religious minority students into institutions of higher education poses significant pedagogical and value challenges for students and teachers alike. We offer a framework for analyzing such challenges, distinguishing between practical concerns, identity issues and value conflicts. By contrasting a deficit perspective to…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Minority Groups, Intercultural Communication, Student Diversity
Zakai, Sivan – Curriculum Inquiry, 2015
This paper explores the relationship between the teaching of history (the academic study of the past) and the teaching of heritage (meaningful stories tying people to a collective past). The research was conducted in a Jewish high school whose explicit mission involves teaching history through a US history course and heritage through an Israeli…
Descriptors: Judaism, Religious Education, Correlation, History Instruction
Alkaher, Iris; Tal, Tali – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
This study is part of a first study of collaborative socio-environmental projects that engage Jewish and Arab students in Israel in learning about their local environment and about each other through outdoor learning and environmental action. We used ideas of social learning and environmental citizenship to frame our research. We investigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Multicultural Education
Goldberg, Tsafrir; Ron, Yiftach – Journal of Peace Education, 2014
There is growing interest in the impact of Jewish and Arab historical narratives on intergroup relations and conflict. A randomized placement comparative study set out to examine it empirically. Conventional-Authoritative official narrative, Empathetic Dual narrative, and Critical-Disciplinary multiple-source teaching interventions were designed…
Descriptors: Arabs, Jews, Adolescents, Conflict
Aflalo, Ester – Issues in Educational Research, 2012
This study furthers the understanding of the connections between learning approaches and learning strengths. The research population embraced 65 males from the Jewish ultraorthodox community, who abide by distinct methods of study. One group follows the very didactic, linear and structured approach with performance orientation, while the second…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Jews, Research Tools, Foreign Countries
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