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A "Life of Optimism" in Curriculum, Teaching, and Teacher Education: The Legacy of Miriam Ben-Peretz
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Cheryl J. Craig; Maria Assuncao Flores; Lily Orland-Barak – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2023
In 2020, Miriam Ben-Peretz, the Israel Scholar of 2006 and a member of the U.S. National Academy (in addition to being a recipient of Israel's EMET Prize for Research in Education and an American Educational Research Association Fellow) passed away. Ben-Peretz, whose life patterned Israel's contested history (including its wars), was equally well…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scholarship, Biographies, Educational Researchers
The Religious Educational Legacy of Mordechai (Motti) Bar-Lev: Scholar and Visionary
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Gross, Zehavit – British Journal of Religious Education, 2013
The aim of this article is to analyse the educational and spiritual legacy of Mordechai (Motti) Bar-Lev, one of the pillars of religious education research in Israel. We first analyse the ideological-theoretical foundations that underlay his thought and provided inspiration for his scientific writing. Next, we analyse the principal dilemmas on…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Educational Researchers, Ideology, Educational Theories
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