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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Arviv-Elyashiv, Rinat – International Journal of Educational Management, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe the relationship between teachers' professional role, their sense of empowerment, and their attitudes toward managerial promotion (career development) following the implementation of educational forms. Design/methodology/approach: The study was conducted in Israel in 2015 and included 663 teachers,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Empowerment, Educational Change, Career Development
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Hanin-Itzak, Limor – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2019
This qualitative study aimed to reveal patterns of empowerment among ICT (Information and Communication Technology) coordinators during ICT reform implementation in schools, and to examine if and how a sense of empowerment is expressed in their roles as teachers and as agents of change. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 24…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Coordinators, Teacher Empowerment, Change Agents
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Friedman, Izhak; Olshtain, Elite – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2014
This study used semi-structured in-depth interviews to explore empowerment patterns among teachers who hold leadership positions in school. Our qualitative analysis presents a hierarchical ladder with three types of empowerment amongst these teachers, ranging from limited empowerment through rewarding empowerment to change-enhancing empowerment.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Leadership, Semi Structured Interviews
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Avidov-Ungar, Orit; Shamir-Inbal, Tamar – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2013
The Ministry of Education in Israel has, over the past two years, been running an education program designed to lead the implementation of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) in schools. Implementation of the program is accompanied by training and support of teachers selected to be ICT leaders. The role of the ICT leader is divided to…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Teacher Leadership