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Negotiating Tradition and Contemporary Education: An Enrichment Center for Jewish Ultra-Orthodox Children in Israel
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Haller, Rachel; Golden, Deborah; Tavecchio, Louis – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2018
This paper addresses the negotiations of Haredi (Jewish Ultra-Orthodox) kindergarten teachers with contemporary educational understandings as these emerge in a Haredi Enrichment Center for kindergarten children. Using the prism of Thirdspace, a close look at the themes around which the Enrichment Center and its activities were organized reveals…
Descriptors: Jews, Judaism, Religious Education, Kindergarten
Teaching Traumatic History to Young Children: The Case of Holocaust Studies in Israeli Kindergartens
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Ziv, Yair; Golden, Deborah; Goldberg, Tsafrir – Early Education and Development, 2015
Recently, the Israeli Ministry of Education initiated a mandatory nationwide curriculum for Jewish kindergarten children focusing on the study of the Holocaust. This initiative raises general questions regarding the inclusion of sensitive historical issues in curricula for young children. In this article, we use the new Holocaust curriculum as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Jews, Death, War
Cultural Factors Affecting the Differential Performance of Israeli and Palestinian Children on the Loewenstein Occupational Therapy Cognitive Assessment
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Josman, Naomi; Abdallah, Taisir M.; Engel-Yeger, Batya – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
Cognitive performance is essential for children's functioning and may also predict school readiness. The suitability of Western standardized assessments for cognitive performance among children from different cultures needs to be elaborated. This study referred to the existence of differences in cognitive performance between and within children…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Cognitive Tests, Occupational Therapy, Standardized Tests
The Role of Language, Appearance, and Culture in Children's Social Category-Based Induction
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Diesendruck, Gil; haLevi, Heidi – Child Development, 2006
Four studies examined whether Israeli 5-year-olds (N=88) and adults (N=48) drew inferences about psychological properties based on a character's social category, personality trait, or physical appearance trait. Study 1 revealed that while children drew inferences mostly by social category, adults did it by personality trait. Study 2 showed that…
Descriptors: Language Role, Cultural Influences, Social Influences, Young Children
Art Curriculum, Learning Materials, and Cultural Capital in the Israeli Kindergarten
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Toren, Zehava – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2004
This research focuses on attitudes toward artwork reflected in the official curriculum and pedagogical material in Israeli kindergartens, and the role this attitude plays in the reproduction of the class structure--specifically, the different institutional approaches to artwork in the kindergarten and the reproduction of cultural capital. This…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Art Education, Curriculum
Hugging the Teacher: Reading Bodily Practice in an Israeli Kindergarten
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Golden, Deborah – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2004
This paper, based on an ethnographic study of an Israeli kindergarten, describes the practice of hugging, by the girls, of the teacher, and the latter's response to the girls' initiative. Based on Bourdieu's concept of "habitus" and the assumption that embodiment is crucial to social-cultural learning, the paper demonstrates the complex…
Descriptors: Females, Ethnography, Kindergarten, Foreign Countries