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Arum, Richard; Ford, Karly – Educational Leadership, 2012
It's a challenge for schools in every country: How to provide the right kind of discipline and create a climate that nurtures learning. This challenge may look different in different countries. A school's disciplinary climate not only is the product of educators' beliefs and actions, students' beliefs and actions, and the interaction of these, but…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Environment, Social Scientists, Foreign Countries
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Yariv, Eliezer – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2010
This case study worked with 80 lecturers drawn from Israeli teachers' colleges who reported that they face relatively few discipline problems; most appeared to be related to low motivation and/or dishonest behaviour. They treated each case in an ad hoc way, responded mildly and avoided imposing sanctions. It is argued that the student teachers'…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Discipline Problems, Sanctions, Moral Values
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Oplatka, Izhar; Atias, Miri – Gender and Education, 2007
The current study explored male and female principals' views of classroom and discipline management from a gender perspective. Based on semi-structured interviews with 16 primary school principals from Israel, the study points to gendered views of school discipline, in that certain perspectives to prevent or handle discipline problems in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Principals
Lavy, Victor; Schlosser, Analia – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
The consequences of gender social and learning interactions in the classroom are of interest to parents, policy makers, and researchers. However, little is known about gender peer effects in schools and their operational channels. In this paper, we estimate the effects of classroom gender composition on scholastic achievements of boys and girls in…
Descriptors: Females, Satisfaction, Social Environment, Peer Influence
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Romi, Shlomo; Freund, Mira – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1999
Explores the attitudes of students, teachers, and parents toward students' disruptive behavior as part of school discipline. Finds that teachers agreed on the severity of most disruptive behavior problems, while parents and students disagreed among themselves. Indicates that parents and students should be involved with discipline-related policies.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Discipline, Discipline Problems
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Aviram, Ovadia – Urban Education, 1990
Discusses problems of socially integrating low income Jewish ethnic groups in Israel boarding schools into mainstream Israeli culture. Presents a participant observation review of one boarding school. Uses study of three boarding schools to explore discipline and control tactics as obstructions to the attainment of instrumental and expressive…
Descriptors: Boarding Schools, Case Studies, Cultural Influences, Discipline Problems