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A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Educational Leadership for Social Justice in Israel and Turkey: Meanings, Actions and Contexts
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Arar, Khalid; Beycioglu, Kadir; Oplatka, Izhar – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2017
The research compares principals in Israel (Jewish and Arab) and Turkey and how they perceive and practice their role in promoting social justice (SJ) in their schools in order to bridge socioeconomic and pedagogic gaps. It poses three questions: (1) How do Turkish and Israeli SJ leaders make sense of SJ? (2) What do SJ leaders do in both…
Descriptors: Principals, Comparative Education, Social Justice, Foreign Countries
Social Representations of Inclusion and Stratification: Ethnographic Research within Two Israeli Elementary Schools
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Tuval, Smadar; Orr, Emda – Disability & Society, 2009
Based on "Social representations theory", this ethnographic research examines the processes by which two Israeli elementary schools represented some children, but not others, as "weak" students and in need of remedial teaching. This approach differs from most current research regarding children with disabilities, which mainly…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Ethnography, Disabilities, Discourse Analysis
Psychology in the Schools in International Perspective, Vol. 2.
Catterall, Calvin D., Ed. – 1977
The document is second in a series which examines actual and potential contributions of psychology toward solving problems of the world's schools. Written by school psychologists from 15 countries, this volume describes ways in which psychology is applied in the author's country, traces the background of school psychological services, reviews the…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comparative Education, Developed Nations