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Values in Tension: Israel Education at a U.S. Jewish Day School
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Zakai, Sivan – Journal of Jewish Education, 2011
The Naphtali Herz Imber Jewish Day School proudly proclaimed its commitment to Israel, yet many of its students experienced profound ambivalence toward the Jewish State. Why? The school was committed to a series of contradictory values which surfaced in its approach to Israel education. This article outlines three distinct yet interrelated…
Descriptors: Expertise, Jews, Day Schools, Foreign Countries
Self-Esteem and Academic Achievement: A Comparative Study of Adolescent Students in England and the United States
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Booth, Margaret Zoller; Gerard, Jean M. – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2011
Utilizing mixed methodology, this paper investigates the relationship between self-esteem and academic achievement for young adolescents within two Western cultural contexts: the United States and England. Quantitative and qualitative data from 86 North American and 86 British adolescents were utilized to examine the links between self-esteem and…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Sexual Fundamentalism and Performances of Masculinity: An Ethnographic Scene Study
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Gallagher, Kathleen – Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education, 2006
The study on which this paper is based examined the experiences of students in order to develop a theoretical and empirically grounded account of the dynamic social forces of inclusion and exclusion experienced by youth in their unique contexts of North American urban schooling. The ethnographic scenes, organized into four "beats,"…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Sexuality, North Americans, Researchers