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Honig, Michal; Porat, Dan – Oxford Review of Education, 2021
This paper examines two research questions: How do teachers refer to historical figures when teaching difficult past events? Which approaches to teaching difficult past events are reflected in teachers' ways of talking about historical figures? The paper is based on an analysis of lessons by three 11th grade history teachers in Israel on the…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Teaching Methods, Controversial Issues (Course Content), High School Teachers
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Gross, Zehavit – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2020
The objective of this research was to analyse poetry written by Israeli high-school students during or after visiting Poland within the framework of Holocaust education. I describe first the stages of shaping the discourse of Holocaust memory in Israel, and of Holocaust education; the Holocaust's place in the world of young Israelis; and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Poetry, Trauma
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Hassenfeld, Jonah – Journal of Jewish Education, 2018
This study examines changes to Jewish day school students' narratives of the history of Israel after a two-and-a-half-week trip there. Seventeen students were interviewed about the history of Israel before and after the trip. Before the trip, most students' accounts lacked logical connections among the different events. The observations on the…
Descriptors: Jews, Heritage Education, Day Schools, History Instruction
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Dridi, Tarak – Journal of Education, 2022
Oslo Accords have stringently underscored that both rivalries, the Palestinians and the Israelis, must abstain from incitement to terror and violence. Their educational systems, consequently, have to refrain from convulsive, fundamentalist, and heinous skirmishes leading to stalled reconciliation. History school textbooks are deemed, from both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, World History
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Schupak, Esther B. – Research in Drama Education, 2019
This article explores the way gender resonates in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" through an active study of live performance. Combining pedagogy with performance as an interpretive methodology, this research focuses upon using my unique classroom situation, teaching ultra-Orthodox Jewish adolescent females, as a platform for analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Jews, Females
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Zakai, Sivan – Journal of Jewish Education, 2018
This "think-aloud" study examines how a group of American Jewish teenagers read historical documents that addressed what it has meant over time to be American and/or Jewish. It demonstrates that students use a variety of sense-making strategies as they read about the past, many of which fall beyond the boundaries of critical historical…
Descriptors: Jews, Adolescents, History Instruction, Documentation