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Direct linkMiri Shonfeld – Intercultural Education, 2024
This study explores the potential of empowering children as peace agents through education by using the case of the TEC4Schools program. The program is based on Allport's Contact Theory and promotes prolonged exposure to the 'other' culture among culturally diverse groups of students. It is based on the hypothesis that extended contact periods…
Descriptors: Peace, Children, Empowerment, Cultural Awareness
Rami Benbenishty; Ron Avi Astor; Michal Shemesh; Dana Avital; Tal Raz; Ilan Roziner – Journal of School Violence, 2025
The study aims to examine changes over time in school victimization and climate in Israel, and whether these changes varied between Jewish and Arab schools and schools with different SES. A secondary analysis of the Ministry of Education database of structured student surveys regarding victimization and climate, was conducted during 2008-2019. All…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Jews, Victims
Naila Tallas-Mahajna – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
This study examined the level of social communication problems (SCP), social anxiety (SA), and mood problems (MP) among children with ASD (age 4-13 years) enrolled in special classes (n = 74) and regular classes (n = 73) and grade level (kindergarten, 1st-3rd, 4th-6th) from teachers' perspective in schools of Palestinian Arabs in Israel. Teachers…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Problems, Anxiety
Jaffal, Abeer F.; Abu-Hilal, Maher; Al-Naimi, Mariam N. – Gifted Education International, 2021
This study tested the construct validity and reliability of the Scales for Rating the Behavioral Characteristics of Superior Students (SRBCSS) with the purpose to have a valid and reliable measure to identify the gifted individuals. The sample consisted of 176 superior students from grades five and six in Qatar. The results revealed a high…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Test Reliability, Rating Scales, Student Behavior
Sedawi, Wisam; Ben Zvi Assaraf, Orit; Reiss, Michael J. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2020
This study investigates the concept of "connectedness to nature" among students from an indigenous Bedouin community, whose relationship with nature is influenced by a variety of cultural, social and environmental factors, not least of which is the fact that the environment in which they live is highly contaminated. We asked 294 fifth-…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Ethnic Groups, Arabs
Jabr, Dua; Cahan, Sorel – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This study contributes to the investigation of the variability of the schooling effect on cognitive development between educational systems and its underlying factors, by focusing on 3 cases differing in the characteristics assumed to affect the magnitude of the schooling effect (the quality of the schooling and students' mean ability to benefit…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Development, Outcomes of Education, Educational Quality
Arar, Khalid; Massry-Herzalah, Asmahan – School Leadership & Management, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to exemplify a "grass-roots" change based on Dewey's experimental progressive education model employed in the "Bridge over the Valley" bilingual school, a Palestinian-Arab and Jewish school in Israel. In order to identify the progressive "approach" underlying this change, the…
Descriptors: Arabs, Jews, Intergroup Relations, Educational Theories
Addi-Raccah, Audrey; Dana, Oshra – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2015
Private tutoring (PT) is becoming a worldwide phenomenon. In Israel too, about a third of elementary school students participate in PT. Based on sociological and school quality considerations, we examined school characteristics that are associated with PT intensity at school. The data encompassed a random state wide sample of 389 Israeli…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Elementary School Students, Socioeconomic Influences, Socioeconomic Status
Zedan, Raed – Learning Environments Research, 2010
The focus of this study was the classroom climate for Grades 4, 5 and 6 students during mathematics classes in elementary schools in the Arab sector in Israel. The study included 3,786 Arab students. The use of a questionnaire indicated that five major factors related to classroom climate were Satisfaction and Enjoyment, Teacher-Student…
Descriptors: Arabs, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Classroom Environment
Download full textRass, Ruwaida Abu; Holzman, Susan – English Language Teaching, 2010
This research has shown that the use of authentic children's literature is an effective and motivating "ESL" classroom strategy. However, this study investigated the use of children's stories in "EFL" elementary classrooms where the teaching methods are very traditional and the resources are limited. This study was carried out…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Arabs, Second Language Instruction
Khalil, Mahmood; Saar, Vered – Learning Environments Research, 2009
In this study, students' perceptions of the classroom learning environment in Arab elementary schools were investigated. The sample included 261 students from Grades 5 and 6. The questionnaire was developed at an Arab college of teacher education by 16 fourth-year student teachers who were completing their studies toward a BEd degree. Articles on…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Elementary Schools, Student Attitudes, School Culture
Abu-Rabia, Salim; Maroun, Lateefeh – Dyslexia, 2005
The present study examined the effect of consanguineous marriage in the Arab community on reading disabilities of offspring. It examined whether the rate of reading disabilities was higher among offspring of first-cousin parents than offspring of unrelated parents; and whether reading-disabled children of first-cousin parents were more disabled in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
