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Guttman, Nurit – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2013
The high crash rates among teenage drivers are of great concern across nations. Parents' involvement is known to help increase their young drivers' driving safety. In particular, parents can place restrictions on their son's/daughter's driving (e.g., restrict night time driving), which can enable the young driver to gain driving experience in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Responsibility, Motor Vehicles, Telephone Surveys
Peled, Yehuda; Khaldy, Sliman – Educational Practice and Theory, 2013
Over 90% of the students who appeared before the Ethical Conduct Boards of four rural colleges in Israel during the 2002-2007 academic years on charges of academic dishonesty were Israeli minorities, while they only comprised 35% of the academic populations of those colleges. This study examines demographic factors as determinants of academic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Cheating, Rural Areas, College Students
Wallach, Helene S.; Weingram, Ziv; Avitan, Orli – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examines the effect of acculturation on the attitudes held by Ethiopian Jews in Israel toward domestic violence (DV). The study findings revealed the following: Ethiopians who immigrated to Israel (n = 31) held more lenient attitudes toward DV than Israeli born Jews (n = 62), which supported the hypothesis that culture influences…
Descriptors: Jews, Family Violence, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Abu-Baker, Khawla – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
This paper addresses parents' reactions to sexual abuse cases in their families. The study analyzed the clinical records of individual and family therapy sessions with 35 cases of Arab Palestinian clients, citizens of Israel (27 individuals and 8 families). Families were categorized as either functional or dysfunctional. It was concluded that the…
Descriptors: Arabs, Parent Attitudes, Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse
Levin, Dana S. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2011
The Israeli army drafts both men and women, and most Israelis complete their military service during their emerging adulthood years. This study examined Israeli women's experiences as soldiers in the army. Twenty-three women (18 emerging adults, 5 young adults) were recruited using purposive sampling and interviewed about how they experienced…
Descriptors: Military Service, Sexual Harassment, Females, Military Personnel
Nam, Younkyeong – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
This review explores Ben-Zvi Assaraf, Eshach, Orion, and Alamour's paper titled "Cultural Differences and Students' Spontaneous Models of the Water Cycle: A Case Study of Jewish and Bedouin Children in Israel" by examining how the authors use the concept of spontaneous mental models to explain cultural knowledge source of Bedouin…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Water, Jews, Cultural Differences
Ezrati-Vinacour, Ruth; Weinstein, Nitza – Journal of Fluency Disorders, 2011
This paper presents a historical retrospective of the evolution of the clinical aspects of stuttering, and refers to social, cultural, political, and economic variables that might have exerted an influence on this evolution, particularly in relation to the authors' experience in Israel. The retrospective commences in the early decades of the 20th…
Descriptors: Stuttering, Therapy, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
Ganayem, Asmaa N. – Journal of Educational Technology, 2012
This study aims to explore the nature of Internet access and use within Arab-Palestinian society in Israel. The research focuses on two points: (i) examining the pace of Internet growth during the last decade and studying the nature of the digital gaps within the studied society in a specific time, (ii) studying the extend of the effect of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Arabs, Access to Computers
Shonfeld, Miri; Kritz, Miki – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2013
This research explores the extent to which virtual worlds can serve as online collaborative learning environments for students by increasing social presence and engagement. 3D environments enable learning, which simulates face-to-face encounters while retaining the advantages of online learning. Students in Education departments created avatars…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Simulated Environment
Goldberg, Tsafrir; Schwarz, Baruch B.; Porat, Dan – Cognition and Instruction, 2011
A group of 64 Israeli twelfth-grade students of two different ethnic backgrounds participated in an experiment exploring the effects of argumentative design and social identity on the learning of a charged, ethnicity-related historical controversy. Students were divided into two learning conditions: an argumentative-disciplinary condition and a…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Textbooks, Essays, Foreign Countries
Al-Fityani, Kinda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines a project to unify sign languages across twenty-two Arab countries. Proponents of the project, mainly pan-Arab governmental bodies with the support of members of the staff at the Al Jazeera satellite network, have framed the project as a human rights effort to advance the welfare of deaf Arab people. They have urged its…
Descriptors: Sign Language, Official Languages, Deafness, Arabs
Mizel, Omar – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 2011
Since the last few decades of the twentieth century, increased independence and autonomy of local schools through the implementation of school-based management (SBM) have become widespread in Western education. SBM is designed to operate within a more general framework of decentralisation of the educational authority. This research set out to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Institutional Autonomy, Elementary Schools, School Based Management
Rass, Ruwaida Abu – English Language Teaching, 2011
This paper reviews and strengthens the data on cultural transfer by Arab Muslim students writing in English and adds the significant element of the cultural impact of Islam on such writing. This qualitative study examines the writing of 18 teacher trainees at an Arab language teacher training college in Israel. Results point to a strong cultural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Arabs, Muslims
Pines, Ayala Malach; Neal, Margaret B.; Hammer, Leslie B.; Icekson, Tamar – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2011
We use existential theory as a framework to explore the levels of and relationship between job and couple burnout reported by dual-earner couples in the "sandwich generation" (i.e., couples caring both for children and aging parents) in a sample of such couples in Israel and the United States. This comparison enables an examination of…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Burnout, Family Work Relationship, Foreign Countries
Pizmony-Levy, Oren – Comparative Education Review, 2011
This article connects world culture and local culture literatures to enhance understanding of educational globalization. Specifically, I examine the worldwide expansion of environmental education organizations (EEOs), which are important catalysts in promoting environmental education. I use a mixed-methods research design: (a) multivariate…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Approach, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries