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Kalman, Matthew – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that despite the doubts about education financing, Israel's innovative companies spun off by universities show no signs of slowing down, as new drugs and other discoveries have produced huge incomes. Thirty years ago, two researchers at Hebrew University set about to make a better tomato. One that was firmer, stayed fresher…
Descriptors: Economic Development, College Faculty, Teacher Researchers, Foreign Countries
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Hayik, Rawia – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
In a teaching context fraught with conflicts on religious and ethnic backgrounds, I decide as a teacher researcher to address these issues with Israeli-Arab middle school students in my EFL classroom. Picture books on religious diversity and minority issues are used as a springboard for providing spaces for students to discuss these issues orally,…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Middle School Students, Student Diversity, Religion
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Shalom, Yehuda Bar; Schechet, Nita – Teaching Education, 2008
This article describes an in-service training program in action research designed for mature teachers returning to college to upgrade their teaching diplomas and complete their BEd degrees. The initial impetus was the need to develop a student-oriented pedagogy based on and enhancing the extensive professional experience of these teachers,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Rhetorical Criticism, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Yogev, Sima; Yogev, Abraham – Teaching & Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2006
The teacher research movement has encouraged the development of "practitioner research" action-oriented and reflective studies among teachers and teacher educators alike. This study compares the profile of research conducted in the Israeli academic teacher colleges with that performed by university faculty. A content analysis of the 204…
Descriptors: Teacher Researchers, Teacher Educators, Schools of Education, Research Methodology
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Katz, Eva; Coleman, Marianne – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2005
This paper describes a study of the extent of teacher-educators' engagement in research and their attitudes and beliefs towards academic autonomy and accountability, in relation to research. The findings from a survey questionnaire and a set of unstructured interviews indicate that at most 25% of faculty at the college are involved in research. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Accountability, Professional Autonomy
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Alpert, Bracha; Bechar, Shlomit – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
The article examines the processes and challenges involved in conducting participatory research and evaluation in schools, by looking at a case study of a collaborative evaluation research that was conducted in a secondary school in Israel by two researchers and three teachers. It describes the experiences of the research team while conducting the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teamwork, Educational Research, Evaluation Research
Tzur, Ron – 2002
In a teaching experiment, I examined a theoretical model of mathematics teaching and learning in practice. In this paper I focus on how the model can guide the teacher's thinking about students' understandings and the generation of activities that foster intended transformations in those understandings. As a research-teacher I taught, twice a week…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Research, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Zack, Vicki – 2002
I, a teacher-researcher, present my fifth graders with an interesting but incorrect student-constructed proposal first seen in 1996. The students used the patterns they had detected while solving the chessboard task to formulate counterarguments. The five types of counterarguments which emerged offer insights into the children's understanding of…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Woo, Jeong-Ho, Ed.; Lew, Hee-Chan, Ed.; Park, Kyo-Sik Park, Ed.; Seo, Dong-Yeop, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2007
This third volume of the 31st annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents research reports for author surnames beginning Han- through Miy-. Reports include: (1) Elementary Education Students' Memories of Mathematics in Family Context (Markku S. Hannula, Raimo Kaasila, Erkki…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mentors, Academically Gifted, Symbols (Mathematics)
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Eisikovits, Rivka A. – Educational Action Research, 1995
Describes the Teacher-as-Ethnographer inservice training program, an anthropological model for training Israeli educators to diagnose and cater to the learning needs of culturally diverse students. Participants, including teachers of all levels and other school staff, learned and used ethnographic methods of data collection and analysis to conduct…
Descriptors: Action Research, Anthropology, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Pluralism
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Zellermayer, Michal; Tabak, Edith – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2006
This action research is targeted at academic researchers who facilitate the construction of communities of enquiry in school-university partnerships and are interested in understanding the process of such an enterprise as well as the knowledge constructed within such communities. Our action research study provides a possible road map for such a…
Descriptors: Action Research, Collegiality, Teacher Researchers, Communities of Practice
Evertson, Carolyn M., Ed.; Weinstein, Carol S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Classroom Communication, Critical Theory
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